On the evening of October 7th, 1777, as fighting on Bemis Heights subsided,
Harriet Acland came to General Burgoyne with a startling request.
Length: 113 words
American Revolutionary War
English Spirit
Edmund Burke told the House of Commons that the American colonies’ refusal
to be dictated to by Westminster was the very spirit that had made the Empire great.
Length: 119 words
American Revolutionary War
English Spirit
Edmund Burke told the House of Commons that the American colonies’ refusal
to be dictated to by Westminster was the very spirit that had made the Empire great.
Length: 119 words
American Revolutionary War
A Declaration of Independence
On July 4th, 1776, a group of American colonists gathered in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to present delegates of the Thirteen Colonies with a historic document.
Length: 58 words
Stories in Short
The Tale of Rip van Winkle
A hen-pecked, ne’er-do-well farmer from New York took off into the Catskill Mountains, and fell in with some very odd company.
Length: 117 words
American Revolutionary War
The Battle of Flamborough Head
When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to
American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.
