Georges Bataille

The Hartford Convention The Hartford Convention was an event held during the War of 1812 between December 15, 1814 and January 5, 1815 in Hartford, Connecticut. Leading members of the Federalist Party from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont gathered to discuss the objections they had with the administrations of Democratic-Republican presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (Banner). They would not only bring to light the supposed wrongdoings of the presidents

the initiation of the 12 Amendment of the Constitution. Congressional Republicans unanimously nominated James Madison for a second term as president. His reelection seemed certain. The opposing party, the Federalist Party had almost ceased to exist. George Clinton, who was the rival of Madison in the 1808 election, died in April. DeWitt Clinton was George’s nephew, who worked hard to secure the presidency for his uncle. He had his own ambitions for the office. But

responsibility. The most important role of a Federalist was their ability to defend the popular gains of the Revolution. Many Federalists were well educated in national-level work and very gifted. Among those gifted Federalists were Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Furthermore, the Federalists were also well regulated, well financed, and used the printed word very wisely. Most of the newspapers were in favor of the Federalists and the articles were

they had no warm clothing. If you were at Valley Forge, would you have quit ? In this moment quit doesn’t necessarily mean stop at that moment. It means after your serving term is up, would you re-enlist ? I will re-enlist because we have General George Washington, we have

Richard Bassett was considered one of the many other founding father of the United States, but sadly he did not get to live long, he only lived for about 30 years, Richard was born In Cecil County, Maryland on April 2,1745 and died in kent county, Delaware on August 15,1815.Basset’s father abandoned him and his mother when he was young. When richard father abandoned his mother, richard was raised by a relative whose name is Peter Lawson, richard attended a school in Philadelphia, where he read &

British are taking over, men are falling at gun shot, chaos consumes us all. There are countless deaths among us, the men fall from sickness and murder. With every fallen soldier there is another family without a son, father, or husband. This war needs to end, soon. I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons which are to fill in for others that left or died, the Congressmen are here to support us, finally if we do not win this war we are nothing but slaves to the British. Madness started

Governor Wright twice rejected elected leaders of the Common House (Noble Jones and Archibald Bulloch) in 1771, however via 1775 royal strength was long gone in Georgia. On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was enacted, with Lyman Hall, George Walton and Button Gwinnett signing for the state of Georgia. It would take a month for Georgians to find out that all three of their representatives voted for the document and what the record said. Major battles involving Georgians (Battle of the

The American Revolutionary War was the most influential war in American History. The Background of the war is the British were taxing the colonists heavily and creating outrageous laws. Such as the Intolerable Acts, where the British took away access to the Boston Port. They also took away some of their rights to self government. They made trail for British officials available in Britain and made it legal to search homes and buildings.The colonists were fed up with the British and started rebelling

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Hamilton and Washington are scared for an uprising in the states. They eventually decide to stay neutral. This is bad decision making, bias towards Hamilton and his inability to make tough decisions because we should have given assistance to France. George Washington was an ineffective leader because of his bias towards