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Colonial Life
Hi, my name is Riley Sells. I am 45 and happily married with 8 kids. My wife’s name is Kathryn and we have 5 boys and 3 girls. My boy’s names are Ben, William, Connor, Thomas, and Jacob and my girl’s names are Katie, Nellie, and Emma. Ben is 16, Katie is 14, Nellie is 12, William is 10, Connor is 8, Thomas is 7, Jacob is 6, and Emma is 3. I have been married to Kathyrn for 20 merry years. All of us live in a house in the city of New England Colonies. I am a traveling fish merchant. I travel along the coast selling fish to other colonies that don’t have places to fish like the southern colonies, but my main fish market is back in the city of the New England Colonies. I am in the upper class because I am one of the few fish merchants in my city and one of the very few who travel. My older kids like Ben, Katie, Nellie, and William help me in my market sometimes so one day they will take over my business. The reason I came to the new world was that the king asked me to be a fish merchant here. He paid me a great deal of money to come and sent up a market so that all the city’s people would have food. He also sent me because he wanted me to discover new types of fish in the colonies and send them back to England to sell. I have liked it here in the Americas so far. I met my wife on the long, torturous boat ride over here. I have opened my shop in the center of the town so that everyone can come from anywhere in town to buy my fish. My house is right above my market, where I raise my beautiful children. Everything is going well for now.

Revolution
**Topic:** The War Goes South

**Source:** Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. //History alive!: the United States through industrialism.// Palo Alto, Calif.: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2011. Print. •Baron Friedrich von Steuben from Prussia trained the soliders and Marquis de Lafayette from France used his own money to buy supplies for the men (95). •“Marion’s band of rebels harassed the British with hit-and-run raids. Then they faded into the swamps and forests like foxes “(96). •“Guerillas-soldiers who are not part of a regular army-kept the American cause alive”(96). •“One of them is Francis Marion who was also know as the “Swamp Fox”(96). "The War Continues with French Allies." __HippoCampus.__ November 2010 http://www.hippocampus.org/course_locator?course=US%20History%20I&lesson=13&topic=2&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=The%20War%20Continues%20with%20French%20Allies&skinPath •Cornwallis held out until October 19,1781 until he surrendered his entire army of nearly 7,000 men (Yorktown) • War and Fighting lasted for nearly a year after the surrender at Yorktown •In the summer of 1781, George Washington's troops marched more than 300 miles south to Chesapeake from New York and met up with the French land forces lead by Comte de Rochambeau. Washington and Rochambeau surrounded Cornwallis on land, while de Grasse battled the British Navy and won control of the Chesapeake, successfully sealing off the British troops.
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Exposition: My son Ben and I have been drafted into the army to defend our colonies from the British. I will be training at this base until I am ready to fight.
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Rising Action: A generous man named Baron Friedrich von Steuben has been helping us train before we head out to the war and another generous man named Marquis de Lafayette has bought supplies like weapons to help us win this war.

Climax: We have one a battle by surrender. The British leader held out until today October 19, 1781 but he could not win the battle, he surrendered nearly 7,000 men today in Yorktown.

Falling Action: Ben and I are back at out house in New York with the rest of the family. We will resume out lives until we hear other wise. The General that was leading us (his name was Washington or something like that) said that we could go back home Ben and I had done our jobs for now.

Dénouement: Today we heard that the War has ended a near year since Ben and I came back from Yorktown. We hear that George Washington’s troops fought with some French allies in Chesapeake while Comte de Rochambeau battled the British Navy and won control of the Chesapeake Bay. We successfully sealed of the British troops. We have won the War. Let’s hope that everything goes back to like it was before.