President Wilson unsuccessfully bets away his dreams for peace in Europe after World War I when he trusted the Senate would approve the Treaty of Versailles regardless of the possibility that it contained an agreement to set up the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, drove America through World War I and made the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the remainder of which was making a League of Nations to guarantee world peace.
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The Hessians were German mercenaries. Stark is saying that they are on a hill that he and his comrades will take and if they don't his wife will be a widow. In other words, it means that the victory will come to the Americans or they will die trying.
The Americans had more at stake. If they were defeated they would be hung for treason. In their minds, George III was a tyrant who would not listen to them. Nor would he dispense Justice.
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In the excerpt, the evidence which suggests that being a spy for the American could be deadly is: 'That move probably saved him from hanging. '
The Tainos were divided into different chiefdoms and had enemies in the Lesser Antilles, known as the Carib tribes. Each chiefdom was headed by a chief who they paid a tribute to. Because of their nearby enemies, they were actually being pushed out of their land and many women were taken as captives, so they spoke the Carib language as well.
