Redcoats Poems - Poems about Redcoats

... As for Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, ignore what they taught you in grammar school. No such ride ever took place. They lied. The truth is the famous patriot was no fool. Rather, a......

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...The paddlewheel unloads people, tourists who were out on a cruise, above the docks and the gift shops the brown palisades come in view. (The canoes draw up on the beach, Iroquois out looking t......

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...King George was fast running out of money Tried to squeeze more out of the colony Thirteen states said no Told George where to go Saying "thank you, but we'll run our own country"... Paul ......

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......But with redcoats in the rear they couldn’t persevere, on narrows paths by a small creek escape from their foes they did seek, but who would guard the rear? Stirling and four hundred brave m......

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...The British had stumbled in Boston the year last, but came again for vengeance bold to bleed freedom, damage untold, with fire and with blast. To New York their ships sailed thirty thousand men......

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...The Spirits of Culloden. This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year, Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear. Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden, Pay......

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...Remember the days of the redcoats, Always there to help, A family holiday it was all fun and games, Competitions by the pool, Knobbely knees and glamorous grannies, Kids clubs so adults got a br......

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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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...Love of history commences a health and pathology journey toward totalitarian terror and unitarian awareness, fragmented numbness of prey and integral consciousness of co-empathically benign pre......

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...Close on three hundred fifty years ago American independence not foregone conclusion, British soldiers in league with Hessians witnessed successful campaign battles admirably groomed unbridled ......

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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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...To the Redcoats Betsy Ross lied. “It is not a flag!” she decried. “I'm due at a wedding and all of this threading will be a new gown for the bride!” “But it isn't just one little dres......

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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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