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My Brother Sam is Dead (Timeline)

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    Revolutionary War

  • Sam goes to war

    Sam decides he will go to war, and argues with his fatherabout it.
  • Stealing tthe Gun

    Stealing tthe Gun
    Sam steals his fathers gun "The Brown Bess" to go to war with it,
    Sam leaves his family weaponless
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    The Revolutionary war began with the Battle of Lexington & Concord
  • More Gun Theifts

    Continental Officers come to the tavern to take fathers gun from him, but he doesnt have it because Sam took it for war.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The new signed paper called the Declaration of Independence was a document claiming our independence signed by delegates from the 13 colonies.
  • Cowboys

    Cowboys
    Father gets captured on the way home from Verplanks Point when delivering beef, Tim returned home with thr bought goods, and ran the tavern with just his mother since Sam is still gone. They later find out he died on a British Prison ship
  • Sam comes Home

    Sam comes Home
    Sam comes home after not visiting for a while to see his mother and Tim
  • Coneption of alliance.

    im not sure what this is but ik it is historical....=)
  • Sam comes to stay

    Sam comes to stay
    Sam's and his fellow troops come to stay in reading for awhile, He gets to see his brother and mother a lot now.
  • Cattle stealers

    Cattle stealers
    Sam was accused of stealing when he chased down two troops for stealing his brothers cattle. The two troops beat him up, and claimed he did it.
  • Trial

    Trial
    Sam has a trial about his cattle stealing delema. His Mother and Tim are soon to find out that Sam is to be exacuted for cattle stealing, and desertion, which is not being at your designed post. (since Samn was visiting his brother he was deserting)
  • Tim's time to save

    Tim's time to save
    Tim sharpens with fathers batonet and heads to the emcampment to attemp to save Sam before he is exacuted the next day. Tim crept up and the gurad saw him, so he screamed out "Sam" as loud as he could and threw his bayonet over the gate hopoing to hit the guard. He then retreated home, dodgeing bullets from the emcampment officers
  • Sam gets excuted

    Sam gets excuted
    General Putnam refuzes to consider Sams case. He was shot once by 3 officers, but they shot from so close that Sam just squirmed and caught on fire, so they shot him again until he died.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    The battle of Yorktown