Cornwallis Poems - Poems about Cornwallis

...We need to remember our heritage and the reason we celebrate the 4th of July. Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Their story. . . F......

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...Cannons firing from the left and right Taking place during America’s fight A fight for independence From England’s transcendence Colonists paid increased taxes to England’s royalty Causing wi......

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...My footsteps echoed the echoes of Time as through the streets of Salem I walked. The hour was early and the city still asleep with only a cat sitting quietly on a cold granite sill, the sky slowl......

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...In December 1776 the revolution was at a low ebb, the patriots had lost at Long Island and the survivors through New Jersey fled. Desertion was high as many soldiers though the cause had been ......

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......Through the woodlands the riflemen did steam, reinforcing General Greene’s second line, the British pressed on, still on the attack, but they had quite the devil of a time. Marching through ......

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...General Cornwallis of Great Britain faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve, he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown, but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall. Instead he faced a ......

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...Ken Mattingly is mad about being cut from the Apollo 13 crew - now no one will see his zero-gravity backflip until a later time, by then no one will care. Tom Hank’s Luna capsule spins out of con......

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...Back in seventeen eighty-one The revolution hit hard times, Britain had taken Charlestown And at Camden had crushed the lines Of General Horatio Gates, Leaving nobody to resist, Except the Sw......

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......He reformed the routing patriots, formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill, brought in General Knox and the artillery, commanding the mass through sheer force of will. He needed to buy time......

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...They taxed us without our consent, we who though we were Englishmen, said we had no say in governance, so we simply boycotted them, threw their tea into the harbor, let them know that we’d had e......

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...You know, there's always a song that takes me back To a year, so long before It's not always a top ten song That hits my very core It just grabs me and transports me Back in time while standing ......

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...I was there when old Troy burned, all the babies I dashed and hurled, slayed Hector and Achilles, made Priam scream in agony. I was there at the Fall of Rome, snuffed a light half the world ha......

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...A very kind old gentleman All his efforts were to keep you close If you Yanks had stood still And had fought like men You’d be still be English - men......

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...The skirmish at Bunker Hill almost became a British scandal, Since the Yanks gave the Brits almost more than they could handle! General Howe expected the Yanks to toss their muskets and flee, But ......

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...GENERAL WASHINGTON Once in command, he boxed in the British At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights, Overlooking the Brits at his mercy As his men took aim with their cannon sites. ......

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