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The Founding of America
Sam Adams - Mastermind of the Revolution
Poor, shabby, brilliant and determined, Sam Adams masterminded the events that led to the American Revolution.
At Harvard, he planned to be a minister. His father wanted him to be a lawyer. His mother overruled both and decreed that he got into business. His unrelenting passion for justice and liberty led to the colonies' declaration of independence on July 4, 1776,
It's quite a story.
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Paul Revere - American Hero
When Paul Revere was 63 - in 1798 - at the request of one of America's first historians, he sat down and wrote the story of a remarkable night in 1775.
Revere made an enormous contribution to America's fight for freedom.
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Henry Knox -
Washington's Favorite General
When newly appointed General George Washington
arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the summer of 1775 to take command of the ragtag Continental Army, he was horrified by the lack of weapons and ammunition.
A few months later, a 25-year-old artillery officer stepped forward with a suggestion. Taking only his teenaged brother, Henry Knox made a 600-mile winter journey to Fort Ticonderoga to bring the armaments stored there to Boston.
Throughout the eight years of the Revolution, Knox was at Washington's side.
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John Trumbull
Washington's Favorite Spy
John Trumbulll's life was full of ups and downs - even a stint in a British prison.
Trumbull's enduring legacy, and his gift to generations of Americans, are his paintings of the Revolution's crucial moments and the brave patriots who made those moments happen.
Today, four of his paintings hang in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol.
Towards the end of his life, Trumbull founded America's first university art gallery at Yale.
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