Before the Revolutionary War, most American colonists called themselves (C)Englishmen.
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<u>The way Henry used of persuasive rhetoric influence the start of the American revolution:</u>
Henry Patrick was one of the United States Founding Fathers and the first Virginian Governor. He was a talented speaker in the American Revolution and a leading figure. His stimulating discourses, including a lecture to the Virginia parliamentary Assembly in 1775 in which he was famous as saying, "Give me freedom, or give me death!"—America's freedom war has been fired up.
Patrick Henry used persuasive rhetoric in this speech to encourage the Virginian prominent, wealthy men, to take away much of their previous political policy, in contrast to the more traitorous one, the more transparent military preparedness, of British hostility.
Henry spoke without any notes. His popular address contains no transcripts. In 1817, the only recorded edition of the speech was published by the writer William Wirt in his autobiography, which prompted some scholars to believe that Wirt might have made the famous quote from Patrick Henry to sell a copy of his book.
