Recruiting two regiments of African Americans, dastardly employing pirates, it is still known as a miracle today that he pulls off this great win considering that the odds of 7:3 against the Americans which make this battle even more memorable. ... In two hours of steady fire, the British were outgunned; they failed to breach the American line. ... He would hurl all his power straight ahead through the Americans' well-prepared fortifications. It meant committing thousands of his redcoats to a frontal assault in the hop that their superior numbers would shatter the American resi...

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The framers wanted a strong and independent chief executive [remember, there had not been one under the Articles], but they did not want to create a monarch [like the one we had rid ourselves of in the American Revolution]. ... Executive Orders have part of our government ever since President Jefferson issued an executive order purchasing the French holding in North America (the Louisiana Purchase). ... Roosevelt used an executive order to send Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII. ...

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