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Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, "Give me liberty or give me loss of life," Patrick Henry is all but neglected today as the first of the Founding Fathers to demand independence, the first to call for trend, and the first to call for a bill of privileges. If Washington was the "Sword of the Trend" and Jefferson, "the Pen", Patrick Henry more than received his epithet as "the Trumpet" of the Trend for rousing Americans to arms in the brand new Warfare. Henry was one of the towering numbers of the nation's formative years as well as perhaps the greatest orator in American history. To this day, many Americans misunderstand what Patrick Henry's cry for "liberty or loss of life" designed to him and also to his tens of thousands of devoted followers in Virginia. A prototype of the 18th- and 19th-century American frontiersman, Henry claimed specific liberties as a "natural right" to reside in free from "the tyranny of rulers"-American, as well as English. Henry believed that individual rights were more secure in small republics than in large republics, which lots of the other Founding Fathers hoped to generate after the Trend. Henry was one of the main and colorful of our Founding Fathers-a travelling force behind three of the main occurrences in American history: the Warfare of Independence, the enactment of the Charge of Protection under the law, and, tragically, as America's first important proponent of says' privileges, the Civil Warfare. Harlow Giles Unger, a ex - distinguished going to fellow in American history at George Washington's Support Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. His catalogs include The Previous Founding Dad and four other biographies of America's Founding Fathers, plus many more. He lives in New York.
