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Colonial Life
Jocque front is a young man currently at the age of 16 years, who was brought from New France to North Carolina by his mother and father. They came in a caravan disguised as returning English army men and a wife. The disguise they obtained by know peaceful solution. They lived by the border of Virginia, close to the coast. Jocque’s father was a wealthy and successful spy for the French government for a long time. He was a very wealthy man, paid lavishly by the king of France himself. His skills and golden information, as well as his sabotage and assassination of rival English nobles and colonialists, earned him notoriety and fame. When he had a son, the French king commanded Jocque’s father to move to North Carolina and train him to be what his father was. Unfortunately for Jocque’s father, this son along with the next 7 brothers and sisters of Jocque all died during child birth, the doctor being drunk at the time of each of their births. Jocque was the lucky child who survived and so he was the one who was trained ever since the age of 6 to be a spy for the French government.

Jocque although at a time was not what his father was called a “pure Frenchman”, as at a ripe young age, he found love in an English girl who unfortunately died in a lake. Jocque lives in a colonial city. His father chose this place for them to live because colonial cities have ports, traders, and market places along with a larger population than towns; this naturally means that colonial cities tend to get more information than lessert populated colonial towns. Jocque is not yet married at the age of 16. He is paid highly by the French king for his services and has inherited the vast wealth his father had too. Also Jocque works as a lumber worker in North Carolina under the name of James Peterson and claims to have wealth from his father because his father was a wealthy merchant. He claims all of this and acts such to avoid suspicion from the local English colonialists. Jocque is a high-class man.

Revolution
Topic: Trap at Yorktown

Source: Daniel, Hart. //History Alive//. California: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. 96-99. Print.

1. “Cornwallis… learned… he did not really control the Carolinas… Guerillas… kept the American cause alive” (Hart 96). 2. Cornwallis wrote that he was, “quite tired of marching about the country.” (Hart 96).

3. “…the French warships showed up just in time to seal off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.” (Hart 96). 4. “Washington… set a trap for Cornwallis. Secretly he moved his army south to Virginia. When they arrived, they joined the French and surrounded Yorktown… with more than 16,000 troops” (Hart 96). 5. Cornwallis finally agreed to surrender on October 19, 1781 (Hart 97). 6. They were accompanied by a slow tune known as ‘The World Turned Upside Down' (Hart 97).

Source: "The Battle of Yorktown 1781." //British Battles//. BritishBattles.com, 13 Jan 2010. Web. 13 Nov 2010. .

1. “ Losing his grip on the Carolinas, Cornwallis marched his army into Virginia and seized Yorktown and Gloucester, towns on each side of the York River.” (British Battles). 2. “… a line of.. redoubts that dominated the British position.” (British Battles). 3. “8,800 Americans, 7,800 French, 6,000 British” (British Battles). 4. Picture on page 99 Hart and the map of the battle on “British Battles”. 5. “ Cornwallis expecting Major General Clinton to sail from New York with a relieving force had decided to remain in Yorktown rather than march south to the Carolinas or attempt to reach New York. His first move was the inexplicable one of abandoning a line of four redoubts that dominated the British positions.” (British Battles). 6. “The Americans immediately occupied the empty redoubts.” (British Battles). 7. “The casualties during the siege had been 500 British, 80 Americans, and 200 French” (British Battles). 8. “Clinton’s relieving force arrived in the Chesapeake on 24th October.” (British Battles). 9. “The capitulation of the British to the Americans and French ended the fighting in the war and led to the Peace Treaty that acknowledged the independence of the American states.” (British Battles).

Ram Kaundinya P. 5 Armstrong 11/23/10 Freytag’s Pyramid Cornwallis’ Grand Enterprise Outline I. Exposition A. Time 1. September 28, 1781 to October 19, 1781 B. Place 1. Yorktown, Virginia 2. Small tobacco port by the York River 3. Regiment of troops posted across river as backup II. Rising Action A. France discusses Franco-American Relationship 1. Comte de Vergennes urges France to either give full support to the colonies of abandon them completely a. Until now, France has secretly aided the colonies ammunition-wise acting under the name of a Portuguese company called // Rodrigue Hortalez et Compaigne // 2. Although France is in heavy debt, because it wanted both revenge on Britain for taking Canada from them in the Treaty of Paris 1763 and it seeks to weaken the British position, it decided to join in the war as a full-fledged ally to the thirteen colonies. B. George Washington discusses next advance 1. I sit in the back of the assembly observing the conversations between the Rochambeau 2. They decide to attempt to retake Yorktown, which was currently under British General Cornwallis’ control. 3. They will use the French navy sent from France as naval assistance to the siege and the French will give troops to assist the Americans. 4. I decide to go along with the French ambassadors and join the French navy outside of Yorktown. III. Climax A. Naval Battle 1. The French navy and British navy have a heated battle at port at Yorktown and the French emerge victorious <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -.25in;">B. Ground Siege <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 120.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -48.0pt;">1. I then get off of the French boats knowing the battle had moved to the ground and proceed to the main besieging camp outside of Yorktown <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 120.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -48.0pt;">2. We take the redoubts outside of the town <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 120.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -48.0pt;">3. We repeatedly fire at the city with artillery and eventually force a surrender from Cornwallis <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">IV. Falling Action <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo9; text-indent: -.25in;">A. With little men left and British reinforcements beaten back and far from site, we know the victory is ours. <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">V. Resolution <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;">A. Cornwallis Emerges <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo11; text-indent: -.25in;">1. The British general marches his army out of the city (him being too ashamed to come out) and they admit to surrendering <span style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo10; text-indent: -.25in;">B. Dénouement 1. I return back to my home knowing that both the battle and the American Revolution had come to a conclusive end. This is both politically and economically based because it shows the French perspective of the American Revolution and it depicts the economic situation of the French, English, and Americans.