The Books of Ordeals

The Books of Ordeals: An Ameriwank

Prologue:

Flight 341 of American Airways
From: San Francisco International Airport, State of California, United States of America
Destination: Belem National Airport, State of Para, United States of America
June 15th, 2013


Niko Galedo* looked at his touch-screen waiting for the plane to land. He was happy to hear that 8th grade was over and can look towards his vacation in the Amazon Forest Preserve. He always had a fond of wild animals when he was young, but this time, he can now look at them up close in person instead of a holo-projection in the museum back in the Bay Area or a domesticated animal in zoos of S.F.O.

“Ladies and gentleman, we are about to land. Please fasten your seatbelt as we approach our destination.” It was just a voice of an A.I.

Niko fled as the plane landed, scurrying past the security, and past the checkpoint and hugged his godfather, finally meeting him for the second time.

“God, James**, I hadn’t seen you since...”

“...you were ten,” James Ordeal finished his sentence with a big smile. “I’ve got a gift for you before we leave for the Amazon trek.”

“What is it?” As Niko smiled in glee as James pulled out a large (probably a 1000 page) book behind his back.

“It’s an actual paper book, haven’t seen one for like ever.”

“It’s actual ancient, made during the pre-Civil War era, but was reprinted by an old friend.”

Niko took a closer look at it: A Patriot’s Tale of a Nation: An American History 1775-1849

“Why did you bring me a history book, school’s over?” Niko was confused about this. For one thing, this should be in a museum with all the ancient paper books. And another thing, he wasn’t much interested in history as much as the next guy.

“This book was written by my very own ancestor. I want you to have it since you’re the only one I know that I trust.”

“Um, couldn’t you keep it for yourself?”

“Nah, I’m getting old. I’ll probably be gone any minute,” James chuckled, “So, you like your gift?”

“Sure, I guess.” Not so much in his mind but it’s a gift.

Niko sighed, but it was a darn good gift for someone over 60. Something about the book is special, mostly because it’s James's ancestor’s book and it’s family. Plus, James doesn’t really have much of a family at all so it was relevant to pass it on to him.

"I want you to past it on to your grandson or daughter when you're ready. There's something inside you've got to know."

Niko stared at him bewildered, "What is it?"

"You'll find out sooner or later. Now, come on, we have to go through the security scan.

Niko opened the book curiously, and noticed a signature.

“Jame’s what’s this signature?”

James already left through the security scan so Niko read on, very curious to what James was talking about with this family conspiracy thing.

To my acquaintances and my beloved ones...”



* Niko Galedo is my best friend back in 6th and 7th grade in Vallejo, CA before I moved north to Washington state
** James is my godfather (oops, what a sudden coincidence :) )
 
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Part 2

Book 1:
The Grubby Endurances of the Early Republic


To my acquaintances and my beloved ones, I have come to a preposition: My time walking on the face of the Earth has come near an end. And with the coming grotesqueness of death, I hereby write this last will: A book to my grandson, for he will continue on this cloudless journey of a novel that eavesdrop the historical phenomenons that may or will occur for the rest of his life and shall continue on to perspire the great adventures he will have and may it birth the womb of a great tale, just as I had when I was about his age. And so forth, his grandson shall inherit this book along with his grandson and so on, until the fulfillment of America’s history has come to an end.

- Last Written in January 27, 1849 in Montreal, Ontario, United States of America


Chapter 1: Insurgent


Catalysts of Insurrection to winter of 1776:

I was born in June 5, 1775, in a Pennsylvanian cottage graciously owned by my great uncle long ago. I was drawn at an early year to the topic of the American birth and the insurgence of American Ideology that inspired me. The world I grew up with, was prior to the war, during the hikes of American Independence. The British Parliament was and had been agitating the colonist with taxes and laws without the consent of our people. The deluge of unnecessary acts have prolonged dissatisfied the American colonists who was in turn satisfied with the laissez faire administrations and fairly self-governance prior to the Seven Years’ War. New laws such as the Townshend Acts, and especially the Currency Act of 1764 which was the first sign of American independence from Britain, has escalated to a conceived point of agitation. The fight for universal philosophy of law and constitutional rights that the government must protect and initiate for the people was ubiquitous amongst a third of the population of the thirteen original colonists and continued onward ‘till the revolution. The side of American individualism against the monarchic oppressions of the British Crown has been for so long a burden. The spiteful fortnights of war between the the two stages has sought only a shoe polish worth in my opinion at first hand but the resolution of the war has changed my perspective. And to continue on this historical journey, I have come to write this epic tale of the American journey through time.

I’ve come to ponder about the cause of such hatred to the British: Why did the American people thought the British as antagonist. The catalyst of American insurgence were greatly profound but how? To question that, I’ve decided to write this as a way to organize a novel of American history and a prolonged psychology of American rugged individualism and its indignant to oppressions from Britain.

When I was still but a mere child, I usually sit at my cottage in Newtown, Pennsylvania, seeing all the redcoat guards on the streets as I play and such, fiddling as if I had no care in the world. But as I grew older, the wonders of the world began precipitating into a multitude of droplets, forever astonishing my perspective. The principles of uncertainty can be compared to the unprecedented phenomenons that ever change the potential trajectory. Each choices made by one person, or by the resolution of one event, or by even a speck of intervention can lead to a wholesome new universe where a new trajectory births from the past. One could say, events after events that lead to the victory of America has been made through the luck of one person through another. And the fate of hands chooses those who are worthy to ascend or be fragmented with defeat. With all this gimmicks of alternation to, let say: history, in particular in American history; one small alteration would often lead to another change and another, much like a domino effect; until the change would be significant enough as to cause a major event in history. One could say the American revolution is one example. Events that lead to bigger events could’ve cause the American revolution. As a prelude to the war for independence, there has been, for some time, have sunder from the Loyal Ideology to Britain and have for some time, have begun to neglect the British Crown. The attrition of loyalty to the British Crown began after the French-Indian War. The colonists prior to the French-Indian War was conceived to the fact of Ideology that the American way of life was much laissez faire, and that we were nothing less, free from much of the oppressions of the British Crown. After the bunch load of free will, the Seven Year’s war broke out in the Great Lakes front, the Mississippi Delta theatre, and the Ohio River Valley which became a battle between the French and the British Crown since these regions mentioned endowed fur tradings and access to the frontier West. Britain finally ended the war, winning the Province of Quebec, Acadia, and Nova Scotia and New France east of the Mississippi River while Spain receives the Louisiana territory west of the Mississippi River. Britain now faced new threats of war with the indigenes as American colonist free willingly ventured west of the Appalachian Mountains and American smugglers trading illegally with the Spaniards and the French. The British also have a tremendous amount of debt to nations that willingly aided the British during the Seven Year's war. Troubles poured thick with the British desperate needs. Thus with this, the Parliament began to issue a deluge of laws to eliminate these problems without causing another war with the Indigenes, which will be costly, let alone debt free. What precipitates from the British Parliament will have unprecedented outcomes that may or may not go against the British itself. In this case, the fate of the outcome had gone ripe to the British perspective. The Parliament proposed increase of military intervention to the American colonies and creating the Proclamation of 1763 in hopes of subsiding the further escalating conflicts. With the British debt coming into question, the British began to strictly imposed laws and acts without much effort. Further grumbling to the British Crown escalated. The British Parliament also passed a series of taxes to cut the amount of the exponentially increasing debt, though each repealed, caused the colonies to protest, demanding to consult with the Parliament and wanted to be allowed to allocate taxes and laws on their own. Their interpretation was much different than the British’s. Eventually, the colonies were in a state of protest from the British Crown as the colonists’ psychological condition is fixated against the British that they had absolutely improper representation to the British government. In other words, the British sudden act of intervention had triggered an unlawful response in America that were perhaps lead to the independence it would soon gain.

The Quebec Act of 1774-

Stimulated the Preservation of Quebec’s institutions and given the Ohio River Valley but was only granted to the natives to protect any such future wars with the indigenous population. Free Catholic practices is granted, though.

Result: A major political taunting against the British and an outcry for insurgency against the British oppressions in the thirteen colonies. Quebec becomes content at first but Catholic soldiers becomes aggressive with Protestant soldiers forcing them to take the Protestant Oath. Catholics in Montreal and Quebec felt controversial about this act generating a bit sympathy to the colonies.

The Bloody Massacre of King Street was and foremost a trigger to the bullet of American insurgence. The further discontent towards the British government passing certain acts that the vigilantes sought as “unfair” was brought forth to the heart of the American cause of Independence. The Townshend, Currency, and other acts had slowly agitated the American patience and generally lead to an increase motivation to renew the laissez faire regime it once was etched to American ideologies. Additionally, the Americans have become more and more violent; with outbreaks of mobs and protests lead to an increase of American discontent to the government. The colonists, such as my parents, did not feel to be obligated to be subject to these unnecessary acts without the consent with the British Parliament and felt as if they were not representatives properly to the British regime. Additionally, the psychological pre-condition associated with the cause of war was present in the Colonist discontent regarding the numerous Acts bearing economic consequences. Like all revolutions, the American one, was legitimately historically inevitable. The rise of American insurrectionism against the British had lead many to believe for a cause, a cause for self-governance and a rise to justice. But the arousement of American insurgence was controversial or maybe understandable to the American psychological condition prior to the war itself. In my assumption, the growing American insurgence had been triggered by many catalysts, the assumption of the British antagonism was one, while the economic damage of the Seven Years’ war was another. And the escalation of anti-British sentiment ideologies continued to grow as it had been etched up during the brawl in the twelfth of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy from the year of our Lord; the Bloody Massacre of King Street found its backdrop against a dispute between a colonialist and British soldiers whom was at their guards. According to the Pennsylvanian Magazine issue, the ‘massacre’ started after the ninth hour after the chimes of carrilions from the arch tower, nearly the time of the arousement of the sun. The four youth vigilantes, named Edward Archibald, William Merchant, Edward’s brother, Francis Archibald, and John Leech, came down Cornhill together, and at the vicinity of the Doctor Loring's corner. After a misunderstanding between Edward Gerrish and Captain Lieutenant John Goldfinch, Private White mishandled the dispute by striking Gerrish on the head with a snowball. If I would have suggest, I would most likely say that this was just as idiotic as insulting the King, though I would not rebuttal what was to follow from the article of propaganda newspaper. A conflict of some sort had further brushed the countenances of the men and escalated into a disgusting scene. Resulting from this, a growing crowd of American colonialist gathered taunting the scene with disgust and a virtue of hatred. Captain Preston began pushing the crowd as if on crowd control. Amongst the crowd, one of Preston’s men was struck down with vigorous reactions amongst others. With his nerves at the breaking point, the Captain ordered them to fire at will, and the soldiers willingly fired. And with more snow balls coming, with a growing yells and screams from the crowd; he again told the men to fire away with a breath scream of a merciless man, and of course, they did. One of the soldiers whose name is not mentioned then fired, and a townsman with a cudgel struck him over the hands with bloody murder that the soldier dropped his redlock to the ground and shed blood to his hands and aimed a bullet accidentally at the Captain's forehead which was again a death sentence. How could he have focused to become a killer if not the Captain would’ve been damned sane. However, the other British soldiers, a little too shocked at the scene, fired upon the civilians without much consent of the confusion and fired upon with tears shed through the light, aiming seven shots at the crowd to be exact; and after the rounds, the shots where subsided to a halt. A hodgepodge of hatred and anti-British moods spiraled out of control as if conquering armies marching through the lands of the 13 colonies. The crowd was seen responding to this as a ‘massacre’, drawing upon this scene with intense details of anti-British propaganda as if the redcoats were slouching with a loud blow and with their guns pointing at the innocent with no mercy of any sort; as if they were ready to shoot a child. The result was three martyrs lying there, dead, with limbs smuggled upon to their soles of their empty bodies, arms wrapped to huddled their life cold shells. Two more of them vigilantes laid with their hands pointing to the heavens, for salvation not to be in vain. The portrayal from the news issue was very dramatic against the British sentiment with a very profound sense of anti-British propaganda thus creating a trigger in my assumption. The massacre was the final straw (to most American Bostonians) and with that comes the rising deluge of insurrection in Boston. About a twenty or so more peoples were against to the soldiers that they stood up in front and persuaded others to rise up. With the illustration delivering a mass sense of hatred, it would seem as if the British were seen as the antagonist. The word ‘massacre’ used by the American artists was not described as genocide such as it would, but rather a virtue of merciless predator with no sense to show pity towards unarmed civilians. The victims of the Boston massacre was portrayed as vigilantes who cannot tolerate the subjugation from the British Crown. In fact, many artists that were not witnesses had yet to believe that the British were merciless to any and that the we must not be in jurisdiction to the British Crown no longer. Had the portrayal been resolved to the correct plot, the Americans may not as well been confined to anti-British propaganda.

The result of American propaganda utterly revolted some of the American public in the thirteen colonies and erected sympathies in Quebec and Nova Scotia. The Bloody Hell Event, as some may call it, had stimulated even a Patriotic stance against the British Crown even as far as Montreal and Quebec. American Propaganda, may have given a better chance of an insurrection than historians might’ve thought.
 
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Part 3

Belem, State of Para, United States of America
June 15th 2013
5:09 p.m.


“James, I’ve read through the first few pages and I couldn’t find anything, just the catalysts of the revolution.”

“You’ll have to read through the entire book, now come on, we’ve arrived at the bus stop.”

Niko and James stepped into the bus without another hesitation. Niko was still curious about the book, but more excited about the Amazon trek.

The bus driver gave an odd look and said, “Oh, northerners.”

“Um yeah, we’re from the northwest [Alaska, Yukon, Western part of Canada, Western United States, Rockies, Western Mexico]”

“Oh, well, where to?”

“Amazon Forest Preserve. You could just drop us off to...” James began pondering as he locate a point through the digital touch-screen map, “let say, Santarem.”

The signs taped all over the bus were advertisements all in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French; the main languages of the Americans. It’s all required in school, but Niko only got as far as learning 3/4 of the main languages; Portuguese was hard for him to come by in his head.

“Okay, let’s go Niko,” James said as both northwesterners head to the back of the bus, the only section that was actually vacant.

“You should sit down Niko, we’re gonna be here for awhile.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll just read the rest of the book.”

“Fine by me.”
 
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Part 4

Boston, Massachusetts, British North America
December 16th, 1773


-------The Boston Tea Party Event:

The Boston Tea Party incident occurred at the aftermath of the conference with Governor Hutchinson. George and other associates dressed as Indians with a small hatchet upon their grips, hands forth ready to show the Brits what they're up against. Their lives were at stake but would be worth forever more stand as a martyr to others like them. Their Tomahawk style clothing would be a disguised for the event. The associates dressed as Indians walked through the streets in the eerie spectral night, as if they were spies. And through the darkness shadowing all around, the Indian men began boarding the wharf and was admitted into the ship. The commander of one of the groups, told the others where they would stand their positions at set point and where they would be ready to initiate the plan. They had no intentions of destroying the ships, just the cargo though. Standing at precise point according to their plan, the ‘Indian men’ stood for a long period of time. Once the guards were distracted to some offset quandary, the Indian commanders told their respective groups to open up the crates with their hatchets, take out all the chest of tea and dumped them overboard in hopes of showing their vigilance to the British. The witness described their countenance as hopeful and forever destined for a cause against the British but were also determined to gain a foothold of followers against the British. The men cut open the chest of teas so the water would enter and expire the tea itself without much insulation. The men took about three hours to dump all the tea chest overboard. The men then, hastily snuck to local residence of refuge without the guards ever finding out until morning’. Through the time spent, the men threw the tea chest overboard, several sneaky poor commoners had snuck to the vicinity of the wharf and stole some of the tea. Of course, the Captain O'Connor caught the Indian men, but they escaped in a rapid speed chase through the docks with shock expression all over. The teas that were still floating elsewhere of the shore, were beaten down with oars and such from the Patriots. The event was of course an outrage towards the British Parliament, which proves the destined British military involvement in the colonies.

At last, the tolerance of King George broke into impatience and sent troops to the thirteen colonies, mainly concentrated in Boston, and shut Boston ports. This action aggravated the Boston citizens onto an outraged, creating further sympathy from the other thirteen colonies. The years rolled by with hikes and hassles with the colonies and the British government escalated. It continued from mobs, espionage, to instant battles after the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

The Battle of Bunker Hill in Charleston, Massachusetts was endowed as a major moral victory for the Americans and was forever more, the beginning of the insurrection. It was a clear day in Massachusetts, visibility nearly clear; a perfect battle ground. The Americans, though lost the Breed’s hill at first, stole it again with George Washington’s more massive army. It was the first battle that endowed a chance that even the mighty British can be beaten. But during the first battle, something of a miracle happened that led to a survival of one very important man, Joseph Warren. During the evacuation, Lieutenant Lord Rawdon aimed his musket high, towards to Joseph’s forehead, but the bullet that was aimed so fairly accurate was misguided none other by his fellow mates. And thus the bullet instead struck a tree branch nearest to Joseph’s forehead. A near hit, and thus Joseph Warren swear he will avenge himself for whoever dared pull a string of hair out of place.

Well, American propaganda has definitely played a role into depicting a British antagonist. The debate over the issue of the battle was sought as a morale boost of Americans (Though with some setbacks such as lives lost and other relevant reasons). With the retreat of the British from Bunker Hill had boosted American pride and morale and increased their hope for war. I watched them when I was just a baby, hearing the screams through the door when I just began to cry and my mother began patting my back. I could distinctly remember the yells of commands from the officers from across the streets during my mid-day supper. I raised my head from my chest, back pressed firmly to the grip of the reclined chair. My entire body froze with some unknown conundrum outside. Their silhouettes formed from the window’s dull light had nearly put angst in my iris as the men passed by. They were heading for Quebec, along with so much others from Boston with Arnold’s vast army. A few British spies had been in espionage missions and have already started to prepare for the upcoming Quebec invasion. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery had made his campaign, sieging Fort Saint Jean and Fort Chambly during the fall of 1775. In September 4, 1775, Major-General Philip Schuyler crossed the boundary between the colonies and southern Canada, and wrote a letter to the Canadians for support. With large sympathies, some French Canadians began supporting the 13 colonies with war efforts, supplies, and other causes. James Levingston, a proud Canadian, lead a group of Patriotic Canadians to Fort Saint Jean and met with Philips’s troops along with Colonel Ethan Allen’s (a pride Vermontian in my account) army and Major John Brown of Pittsfield's (a resident of Massachusetts, but has recently pondered to move for the sake of his family) soldiers to capture the fort swiftly. After the short victory battle, Livingston was operating with a small party of men on Île Sainte-Thérèse, between Fort Chambly and Fort Saint-Jean in order to cut off reinforcements. Livingston, though scarred in the inside, was able to ration ammunition, food, water supply, and weapons to his army as supplies run short. He was, though convinced he started the war, but was able to pass that as one soldier drew a convincing personal oration to the army and convinced Livingston that the they either must rise from the ashes, or fall without dignity. The next day, the British sent out two bateaux from Fort Chambly with dangerous results. As the British neared Île Sainte-Thérèse, Livingston’s soldiers shot them with musket fired upon the bateaux and was able to kill or wounded enough for them to retreat back at Île Sainte-Thérèse. The retreating boats were blasted from the surface and the carnage of the bateaux remained the remnants of them. Fort Chambly was captured, it’s large stone walls unable to match with the advancing Americans. Allen’s and Brown’s men returned to Schuyler’s camp after the fierce battles. Schuyler sent out Allen and Brown for a second time in an attempt to capture Fort Saint Jean in its wake. By the seventh of September, Brown, and his new assets of Canadian volunteers with hope against the British and growing morale support, intercepted supplies heading for Fort Saint-Jean, leaving the fort short of stock and isolated from any reinforcements and British aid. The next day, Allen and Livingston captured two British espionage agents at Saint-Denis which later held two key points for capturing St. Lawrence towns. Soon after, Allen and Brown occupied key towns on the Saint-Lawrence which gained even more Canadian supporters, mainly French Canadians. New assets to the armies are being supplied with guns, though many were civilians, the new assets were given small commands and barricades. Brown and Allen began their mini-campaigns to the Saint Lawrence River, capturing trade towns and key supply points from the British, gaining Canadian sympathy along the way and resupplying the troops with supplies. Meanwhile, the American army, now led by Brigadier-General Richard Montgomery, lay siege to Fort Saint-Jean using 2 gun battery of 12 pounders that sliced British vessels and naval defenses adjacent to the fort, a mortar battery division shelling the fort, east battery with 2 4-pounders that aid to take out the British naval supremacy, and Canadian supplements which provided American insurgents with needed supplies. While this occurred in Fort Saint Jean, Livingston, with a force mounting at around 350 soldiers, continued operations on the Richelieu and other neighboring towns and forts. Livingston’s chief responsibilities were to protect Montgomery's northern flank and to help stop any breakout attempt from Fort Saint-Jean. So with that, the supporting but poorly-armed Canadians were given better weapons and positions to held off any rebellions in captured points thanks to Joseph’s army aiming towards Quebec as well. Some supporting Canadians were given ammunition, supplies, and weapons but others were having to savage for them. The Loyalist Canadians, though many retreated back to Quebec, weren’t able to get too far with the help of sympathetic Canadian spies constantly giving away information of important events in espionage missions prior to the Battle of Quebec. The Loyal Canadians that flee were all too few and either captured, or escaped in few numbers.

The American vigilantes and supporting Canadian rebels began to lay siege Fort Saint Jean while protecting the American supply line. Infantrymen, consisting of sailors and marines, and the infantry artillery men, would defend the American supply line south of the fort. The third infantry line would cut the British supply line around the fort, thus cutting replenishment for the British. During this, Schuyler waited to anticipate rations until new weaponry and supplies were brought within a few days. Schuyler, though was fallen victim to disease, and so Brigadier General Richard Montgomery took in line and lead the army to advancement. The Americans were on the move again.

The Americans seized forts upward pass Fort Saint Jean with James Livingston ahead of Schuyler’s troops. Guy Carleton, from the province of Quebec (Loyalist of course), created his headquarters in Montreal after the Americans set their foot in Quebec soil. The Battle of Montreal was a quick victory for the Americans while Guy Carleton made his narrow escape to Quebec to fortify the city.

Now, it’s time for the battle that will decide for America’s presence in Canada.
 
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Part 5

Altamira, State of Para, United States of America
June 15th, 2013
7:21 p.m.


Niko left the bus with James for dinner in McDonalds. Holding the book between his arms, he kept note of every word. For some reason he somehow got attracted to this remarkable detailed history of the early American revolution.

Sitting down while James take both his and Niko’s order, Niko pondered about and noticed a rip between one of the pages of the book. He wondered as he moved his fingers between the pages as the ripped page fell to his lap.

“I wonder...”

He took the piece of ripped paper upon his view and found the words: Ordeal Treasure

“Hey James, what’s this?”

James quickly scurried past the crowd, “What’s up?”

“I found this page between the pages of the book.”

“Let me see,” James quickly scurried his eyes through the page front and back as his curiosity aroused.

“Never noticed this before.”

“You had the book for years, how come you didn’t notice this page before?” Niko wondered as he slipped his elbow on the table.

“Well I kept the book inside a box under my basement all through my life, I never really read through it,” James said.

“Wait, so you just scurried through the boxes under your basement, found a book, and gave it to me as a gift? Was all this conspiracy crap fake?” Niko began to believe James was just playing with him.

“No, actually my grandfather told me about it a long time ago but I never knew what that meant,” James answered, “I guess he meant this.”

It was a piece of ripped page but it had a title that said ‘Treasure’.

“It’s only a piece of a page,” Niko wondered as he scurried through the pages of the book for more.

“Maybe it’s in the book, I think you should read the rest of your way through,” James smirked.

“Seriously, this book is like a 1000 pages long and I only got as far as the Battle of Quebec.”

“Just read it as far as you can before we reached to our destination, then we can scan it though those fancy computer or something.”

“It’s called ‘Google Scan.’”

“Tomato, Tomato. I can’t figure out all those fancy gimmicks with this new Computer Age.”

Niko sighed as James went back to his spot of the line. Maybe this vacation can be even more exciting than he thought.


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Hope to get some comments if this is good enough, I had this since the beginning of the 8th grade :)
 
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Part 6

Quebec, Province of Quebec, British North America
September-December 1775


Quebec was a well-fortified city thanks to Guy Carleton's quick and well-thought decisions. After the fall of Montreal, Carleton have made an exodus to Quebec, fleeing the captured city of Montreal which was now occupied by General Wooster’s troops soon afterwards.

The Battle of Quebec was the most profound controversial war that would divert American vigilance towards the British to the Province of Quebec. The Battle of Quebec would initiate whether or not the American insurrection drive of Independency would escalate northwards due Quebec even given the divisive form of ethnicity and Catholic religion of French-speaking Canadians to mar the drive. In September of 1775, the Continental Army began moving to the vicinity of Quebec City, with the goal of liberating it from British military control under Guy Carleton. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery led one force up Lake Champlain. He soon captured Montreal in November with a sizable army of Canadian and Americans after the Battle of Fort Saint Jean and the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.

The British were well aware about the invasions thanks to espionage missions and Loyalist spies secretly giving away events, advancements, logistic advantages, and chokepoints of the Americans. Meanwhile, Benedict Arnold’s march with over 600 men from Boston and Quebec has been achieved and harbored near Point Levis opposite of the mainland city. Seeing the rough conditions of the survivors from the long trek and the needed medical attention from injuries during the trek and the sign of winter’s approach, Benedict Arnold decided to stay opposite of the St. Lawrence river in the Plains of Abraham and waited for Montgomery’s army, to add to the size and ammunition needed to capture the city of Quebec. Since the city’s defense outnumbered the remnant of Arnold’s army and with the lack of sufficient resources to fight the battle, Arnold decided to wait for Montgomery’s reinforcements with troops and supplies. Arnold set out boats around the Point Levis shore in preparation for war. Since 100 of his men’s muskets were unserviceable to this day, Arnold sent spies to gather resistant forces and more weapons and supplies until the arrival of Montgomery. Arnold knows that the city cannot be taken by force, so he suggested to blockade the surrounding city from supplies and reinforcements from the west and south side facing the St. Lawrence River. Arnold first asked for a surrender peacefully to the city but was rebuffed by General Guy Carleton and the Loyalists. As the city Loyalist tries to gather up a resistant force against Arnold’s blockades and with the rejection of the surrender plea from Arnold’s message, Arnold supplied sympathetic Canadians inside the city with new weapons and supplies (Joseph’s edit to the plan it seems) and hope to cause a future plan of an insurrection within the city. Within a few days of blockade (as in November 18), rumors sooned spread of a British attack with 800 men but spies sent from Arnold had confirmed that the rumor was fraud, spread by desperate Loyalist within. Meanwhile in Pointe-aux-Trembles [December 2, 1775], Montgomery, with his new sets of winter uniforms, ammunitions, weaponries, artillery, clothing, and 300 more men under the command of James Levingston and Jacobs Brown; head due north-east to Quebec City and besiege the city by December 6 with the help of Arnold’s present army. The sympathetic Canadians were equipped with new sets of weapons and supplies for the coming insurrection as planned.

And thus with the aid of Christophe Pélissier’s ironworks and the aid to further increase the number of sympathetic Canadians, the day of the battle was soon played out. A storm broke during the dawn of the thirtieth of December. During the long periods of cold relentless nights, the soldiers ease up in camps supported by enough supplies to last through the snow storm. In just a few hours, the long blizzard aroused, taking toll of the conditions.

The Battle of Quebec was fought under the light of the sun after the storm. Brown and Livingston began the first stage of the attack near the gate, setting up flames for Montgomery’s, Arnold’s, and Christophe’s attacks. Montgomery’s army began leading away through city blocks using urban warfare tactics.

Quebec, a testament of Canadian progress, now a battlefield. The war rages on, with Joseph Warren’s, Montgomery’s, Arnold’s, Brown’s, Livingston’s, and Christophe’s armies leading to their positions as they the storm pass. Using urban warfare tactics and with clear visibility, much of the city is bombarded by inward and outward attacks. Joseph Warren lead his army standing strong passing the St. John Gates and able to move pass resisting Canadians and British fire. Montgomery lead his army through the outside defenses and were able to break through the city defenses. With lucky advances through the centre of the city, the Canadian resistance and the British present army surrendered the day after with the capture and death of Guy Carleton inside the barricades of Sault-au-Matelot of the last assault. Joseph Warren made a lucky aid to Arnold’s army through the Palace Gates, mainly resisting heavy fire.
 
Part 7

Events of Early 1776:

-Quebec City is captured, leading to hopes high in Nova Scotia for a rebellion.

-Arnold and Montgomery’s armies stationed in Quebec began sympathizing Loyalist and promising them representation.

-The Continental Congress, now in a controversial debate over the new captured Quebec, began sympathizing their representation despite the Catholic religious condition and the massive French influx to mar it and hopes to agitate the Quebecois against the British is again critical but with some of the Quebecois content with the Quebec Act preserving their French culture, religion, and language, the debate continues. Quebec is given full and proper representation to the Continental Congress in hopes to allow Quebec to join in with the rebellion. Tolerance amongst their different religion, culture, and language were extended to allow representation and to secure Quebec’s indigenous institutions. Many Quebecois were content with this type of representation and preservation of their unique culture but some are still remaining Loyal to the British Crown.

-February 8, 1776: Rebels in Cumberland, Nova Scotia sends their sympathies towards Washington by a letter of aid. Response to that letter meant an outright scouting and invasion of Nova Scotia thanks to the wild up enthusiastic victory of most of the Province of Quebec excluding Tadoussac areas. Rebels in Nova Scotia spread, finding Governor Francis Legge in a grubby situation upon his hands. A letter is sent to London with the upcoming sympathy in Nova Scotia thus more British ships are stationed in Halifax. London sends more British ships to Halifax.

-Late February, espionage missions between Washington and the Nova Scotia rebels lead to further planning and aid to the increasing amount of Nova Scotian rebels. Loyalist in Nova Scotia fought back the Patriotic stance. Patriotic towns began calling for American aid. Many rebels erected in towns supporting for the Patriotic stance and thus generating a more prominent stance for America sympathy. Jonathan Eddy begins supporting a rebellious cause in Nova Scotia whipping up a valuable army against the British present militia.

-February 20th sees the political upheaval against the British in Nova Scotia has deliberately aroused as rebels began supporting the American invasion of Nova Scotia, creating the 1st Nova Scotia Regiment.

-Joseph Warren and Livingston began their campaign to Nova Scotia to aid the growing amount of rebels but the British remain stubborn in Halifax. The American cause spreads aiding Joseph Warren during the Battle of Fort Cumberland.

-American sympathizers aid Nova Scotians after the letter of February 8 thus American raids and shipping divert to American espionages, rising rebellions, and British naval blockades. Early March was seen as the weeks of hard advances as the British militia and Loyalist forces fought back American and Canadian rebel soldiers.
 
Part 8

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United States Library of Congress

Printed in D.C., Washington; January 12, 1847

Subject: Second Battle of Fort Cumberland March 1776

Background: Fort Cumberland was an American victory lead by Jonathan Eddy and the 1st Nova Scotia Regiment during the first battle. British ships arrived in Halifax to defect American stance. Fort Cumberland became a battleground.

Result: British recapture of Fort Cumberland

Addressed to: Continental Congress

“We have failed to capture Fort Cumberland. Though we have failed, we lost quite a few men. The British fought hard but it seems they’ve taken more casualties than us. We may have lost the battle, but signs around us says we will not lose the war. May God heal our wounds for the next battle and led bloodshed to our enemies at will.”

Aftermath: Third Battle of Fort Cumberland June 12 1776 resulting in American victory again lead by Eddy.
 
Part 9

The beginning of the American revolution was seen as the rise of Patriotism and the spread of the American Patriotic insurgence. American propaganda kept some of the Americans to kept fighting stubbornly.

And in July 4, 1776, a new day begins. The day of the beginning of the United States of America. The day when fifteen colonies declared their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The womb of the United States of America starts with fifteen colonies signing the Declaration of Independence:



The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the Fifteen united states of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are to be protected under the proper government without doubt of his institutions, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism and cruel acts to the peoples without any relevant causes, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
{Quebec Act not mentioned}
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the American natives, his own militia whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, creeds, religious equality to us all, and other such conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, protect his own individual people no matter of their obligations or previous servitude, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
 
This certainly looks very interesting. I'm about halfway through the second post and I have just one little nit-pick: No Levittown existed until the 1950's, including the one in Pennsylvania. They were named after the man who invented the concept William Levitt.

I would recommend using Newtown, Pennsylvania, instead. It's about ten miles to the north and was the county seat at the time.
 
Oops my bad! Now I have to do even FURTHER RESEARCH!!
*pouts in frustration*

Edit: There I fixed it :)
 
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