People+Of+The+Revolution


 * Benjamin Franklin **


 * Most settlers lived on the tributaries of the Tennessee River like the Holston or the Watauga. Some moved to this fertile, but remote, area to escape the Regulation. While others were veterans of the War pf Independence who went west to claim lands the state owed them for their military service.They did not particularly like the leaders from the Coastal Plain who had beaten them at Almance and deserted them after Camden. ﻿Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts and he died in April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania.media type="custom" key="7705755" **
 * ﻿George Washington **
 * Washington took command of the troops surrounding British-occupied Boston on July 3, devoting the next few months to training the undisciplined 14,000-man army and trying to secure urgently needed powder and other supplies. Early in March 1776, using cannon brought down from Ticonderoga by Henry Knox, Washington occupied Dorchester Heights, effectively commanding the city and forcing the British to evacuate on March 17. He then moved to defend New York City against the combined land and sea forces of Sir William Howe. In New York he committed a military blunder by occupying an untenable position in Brooklyn, although he saved his army by skillfully retreating from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania. In the last months of 1776, desperately short of men and supplies, Washington almost despaired. He had lost New York City to the British; enlistment was almost up for a number of the troops, and others were deserting in droves; civilian morale was falling rapidly; and Congress, faced with the possibility of a British attack on Philadelphia, had withdrawn from the city. **
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