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This 4 page paper is a report on the book: Ordinary Courage by Josephy Plumb Martin. Quotes cited from text which deals with Revolutionary war. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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many more will. The Revolutionary War was a war that paved the way for American independence. Facts, figures and names mean nothing to most who study history, or are forced
to study history. However, when a name has a face, has a family, shares thoughts, feelings, and fears, then the event becomes real. Joseph Plumb Martin lived during the time
of the Revolutionary War. His startling insights into the war bring this long distant event in American history alive. Joseph Plumb Martin was not a rich man from the beginning.
He was a very young man living on his grandparents farm and was very poor. Most of the political event that occurred concerned him little as most of the decisions
were made by people with more education. In the end, all he knew was to scrape out an existence for on his grandparents farm. However, when the Revolutionary War came
along, Martin, like many in his situation, were given incentive to join General Washington in the fight for independence by the promise of land and monetary rewards for enlisting. The
reality of the situation was, then, that the poorer one was, the more likely one was to be serving in the army. Time passed smoothly with me till
the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be a real
coward. What- venture my carcass where bullets fly! That will never do for me. Stay at home out of harms way, thought I. But the pinch of the game had
not arrived yet. I had seen nothing of war affairs and consequently was but a poor judge in such matters(Martin 16). However, the lure of monetary rewards and land
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