My Brother Sam is Dead

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	Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
	19th Apr, 1775	Lexington and Concord	On April 19th, 1775 the battle of Lexington & Concord occurs. It was known as "The Shot Heard Around the World"
	22nd Apr, 1775	Sam comes home	Sam comes home from Yale. He tells about how he wants to fight in the war.
	22nd Apr, 1775	Sam and father fight, Sam steals the Brown Bess	Sam runs away to fight in the war
	22nd Apr, 1775	Sam runs away to fight in the war	Sam iqnores fathers disagreement and heads off to fight in the war.
	24th Apr, 1775	Continental Officers come looking for father's gun	The Officers come into the tavern wanting the Brown Bess, but father did not have it. The officers started threatening him, thinking he was lying.
	16th Jun, 1775	Battle of Bunker Hill	This was the first major battle of the revolution.
	4th Jul, 1776	Decloration of Independence	The signing of The Decloration of Independence was on July, 4th 1776. They were risk takers because this could have been considered treason.
	20th Nov, 1776	Trip to Verplanks Point	Father is captured by Cow-Boys coming home. Tim had to take the wagon home by himself. He tricked the cow-boys.
	26th Apr, 1777	The British Attack Danbury, Conncecticut	They want the Continental Army's supplies.
	4th Jun, 1777	Find out father is dead	Father dies of diesease on a British Prison Ship.
	4th Feb, 1778	Treaty of Alliance	The Treaty of Alliance is when the French agree to help the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
	4th Dec, 1778	Sam comes home again, Continental Army is in Reading	Continental Army is in Reading. Which means Sam is home.
	4th Jan, 1779	Sam is accused of stealing cattle	Sam deserted his post to see his family, he was chasing after the cattle thevies when they turned and made it look like he was the cattle theif.
	6th Feb, 1779	Sam's Trial	Sam's trial from getting blamed of stealing the cattle.
	16th Feb, 1779	Sam is executed	Same gets shot in the back, he gets caught on fire, but was still alive so they had to shoot him again.
	19th Oct, 1781	Cornwallis Surrenders	The last battle, the Battle of Yorktown ended when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, although Cornwallis did not attend the ceremony due to "illness" so he sent Charles O'hara.
	4th May, 1826	Tim writes the book	Tim writes the book "My Brother Sam is Dead"
	Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
	19th Apr, 1775 to 1st May, 1781	My Brother Sam is Dead

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