Click2FamousTrials - PAUL REVERE - Chapter 3, Failure to Attack

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>PAUL REVERE</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - FAILURE TO ATTACK</b></font></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Finally, 500 Americans converged near the fort. Inside, the British were preparing to surrender. But - the Americans still did not attack!</p> <p align="justify">Weeks passed without an American offensive. When British land reinforcements arrived, the Americans still had the advantage but still failed to attack.</p> <p align="justify">Finally, British ships arrived in <a href="http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/RESEARCH/RSD/main/penobscot/penob_bay_subset.gif" target="_blank"><b>Penobscot Bay</b></a>. The Americans fled up the Penobscot River, where they were <a href="http://bell.mma.edu/~mmanrotc/general/history.html" target="_blank"><b>trapped</b></a>. Afraid the British would take their ships, the Americans (referred to as “<a target="_blank" href="images/rebels.jpg"><b>rebels</b></a>” by the Brits) <a target="_blank" href="images/burned.Dominic_Serres.jpg"><b>burned</b></a> at least seventeen of their own <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-7l.htm" target="_blank"><b>vessels</b></a> before they ran home through the woods.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="paul_revere_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="paul_revere_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="paul_revere_ch4.htm"> GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>