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It was like ANTIFA and The ACLU had a baby. Behind them the Brits left the city in shambles, having turned the churches into horse stables. Soon the British hightailed out of Boston town because they were afraid Mark Walberg might show up next (March 17 th, still celebrated to this day as Evacuation Day). Washington cures the Brits of their constipation by putting the cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen, no, not the furniture store, and his Green Mountain Boys, and which Henry Knox, a man so plus-sized they named the fort guarding our nation’s gold after him, had to used oxen, who were about as big as him, to drag them across the frozen wilderness and ice covered rivers, which his men had to make harder by spitting their tobacco juice and letting it freeze…Well, after all that which could be its own movie, Washington had the big guns on Dorchester Heights where he could shell the, well, you know, out of the bloody redcoats. However, he had a lame leg, so at first Team Sons of Liberty put him in the common soldier section, but when they saw how much military knowledge he had from book learning, they said, “ You’re an officer, Nate.” Nate Greene.Īfter G. Well, Green decided that peace best comes through strength and tried to be an officer. The religious group called Quakers who were opposed to all sorts of frivolous things like war. One of these American bad boys is Nathaniel Greene, a Quaker. Occasionally these Continentals raid British lines. George Washington has been outside Boston building his army from farm boys, merchants, Indian fighters, apprentices and free persons of color. When they’re not eating Philly cheesesteaks. The Continental Congress is in Philadelphi-a debating on whether they should send Tom Jefferson’s breakup letter to King George the Third. Happy Independence Day! This is a Special July the 4 th Edition of That Should Be A Movie! Today’s book I would like to recommend as a movie is one that is sure to be an epic summer blockbuster action flick filled with plenty of fireworks flyin’ and popcorn poppin’! We’re talking Jerry Bruckheimer produced, Michael Bay directed, Chuck Norris starring stuff here! We’re talking about 1776 by David McCullough, from Simon and Schuster Publishing, baby! Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze