My review

Why I chose to do a blog:
I chose to do a blog because I a bit easy and fun to do.

Why the Revolutionary War:
The Revolutionary war was a major turning point in history.

What I Learned:
I learned doing a blog is harder than it looks. Also I learned how to post videos on a blog, but I had some trouble finding the right video.

Would I do this again:
 Yes, I would gladly do this again because it got on my creativity side.

Revolutonary War Videos I recomend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcaeUpAHalY

Facts you didn't know: Boston Tea Party

Remember what I said in the last post, Revolutionary War Myth: Fight against Taxes or Government, how the War was fought against the high taxes and the unfair government. This was what caused the Boston Tea Party. The high taxes on all of their favorite produces, I would agree that it is painful to not get the things you love.

Facts you didn't know: Fight Against Taxes or Government?

Here is myth about the taxes. Was the War caused by taxes or by the government? I can’t say for sure that what caused the War.

Here is what I know. The people disagreed with the taxes that they were getting. They also considered themselves as British. However, good old Britten said that they weren’t British. This made the angry. That is was caused the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War Myth: Underground Railroad Tunnels Room (The Hermitage)

I’ sure you may know this legend.  The origin isn’t clear how they got there. Locals residents oof the Hermitage have said that they may have explored in their youth to Ho-Ho-Kus Brook. The tunnel did connect to Ho-Ho-Kus Brook. However there has been no known evidence that it was part of the Underground Railroad.

Revolutionary War Myth: A Hessian Soldier and a Secret Room (The Hermitage)

Now this one is going to lose you. I don’t understand this myself, but I am giving this a shot. In the year 1923, Mary Elizabeth had just written a manuscript, “a Hessian Soldier was murdered [in the Hermitage] during the time of the Revolutionary War.

This may have been true, there were strange noises heard at different times. There is a secret room in the Hermitage during the War and also the War of 1812. Mary Elizabeth likely heard this from family members which were read into print, when the Tea room opened:

The Rosencrantz homestead at Hohokus N.J. which has an authenticated history and ghost was opened yesterday as a tea house.
     Miss Elizabeth Rosencrantz, the last of the family which have owned the house since 1807, is the proprietor.
     The ghost that of a Hessian officer was who was found murdered, the story goes, in an upper chamber of the house, presumably for a store of gold which he is said to have possessed.
—“Hohokus’ Ghost House Becomes Tea Resort,” May 28, 1917

There is actually a “secret room” in the Hermitage. It is above the dairy room off the kitchen. It would be a squeeze to start crawling there (in opinion). It however, never existed in the time of the Revolutionary War. It wasn’t added to about 1847-1848, by Elijah II and William Ranlett. There was another that existed during the War, and it is much older. It was when Theodosia Prevost’s mother, Ann De Visme was in the home, but no evidence proves Hessian soldiers were near the home.

Revolutionary War Myth: Shot Heard Around the World

Like I said before, no one knows who shot first at the battle of Lexington and Concord. A hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn, the farmers, or soldiers fired “the shot heard around the world” at the redcoats. No one knows who really fired. Once the fire was heard, the soldiers from either side started firing in confusion.

Each side blamed the other for firing, but the truth they both didn’t know who fired. An eyewitness was none other than Paul Revere (again), who was detained but never arrested. He did see the fight, but not who shot first. This mystery is still unsolved, but it did have a huge impact on the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War Myth: “The British are coming!!”

Here is another little midnight ride myth about Paul Revere. This was before the Revolutionary War actually happened. The people at the time of 1775, they were still British. So, did Paul Revere yell, “The British are coming!” or, did he yell, “The Regulars are coming!”