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n September 1775, Washington sent staff officer Arnold and 1,000 troops to Canada to aid General Richard Montgomery's siege of British-held Quebec and to secure the northern flank.[142] Quebec was reinforced by 7,000 British troops and the American siege collapsed, forcing the Continental Army to make a hasty retreat.[143] Later that month, an impatient Washington called a council of war and proposed an attack on the besieged British Army in Boston.[144] However, his generals declined the ambitious plan, concerned about high casualties on an entrenched enemy.[145] |
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Washington started afresh with new recruits in January 1776, since soldiers left the Army after their enlistments expired.[141] By mid-January, his army was half-strength at 9,600 men, and the colonial militia who fought in the French and Indian War were summoned to fill in the gaps.[146][h] The new British commander at Boston was General William Howe, but he did not attack during this time—which was probably fortunate for Washington and the burgeoning Continental Army.[144] |
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== Your submission at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]: [[Draft:Socrates|Socrates]] (October 23) == |
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In late 1775, Washington sent staff officer Henry Knox to the recently captured Fort Ticonderoga for gunpowder and cannons. He transported them to Dorchester Heights in February where he was joined by Washington, who used them to drive the British out of Boston. General Howe immediately evacuated Boston with 10,000 troops and 1,100 loyalists. Washington then marched his Army to New York, initiated fortification, and correctly predicted that the British would return and attack in full force.[148] |
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Howe resupplied in Nova Scotia and headed for New York City with the British fleet, as it was considered the key to securing the continent. The British forces assembled in New York Bay, including more than 100 ships and thousands of troops.[149] Howe's army landed unopposed on Staten Island on July 2, and British ships continued to arrive from England and Carolina for a siege of the city.[150] Howe's troop strength totaled 32,000 well-trained soldiers, including 8,000 Hessians, while Washington's troop strength consisted of 23,000 soldiers, 19,000 of whom were raw recruits and militia.[151] On August 22, Howe landed 20,000 troops at Gravesend, Brooklyn and approached Washington's fortifications. Washington chose to fight despite the objections of his generals,[152] as he had received false information that Howe's army had only 8,000 to 9,000 troops.[153] Howe assaulted Washington's flank on August 27 and inflicted 1,500 Patriot casualties, while the British suffered 400 casualties.[154] Washington and his generals decided to retreat, and he instructed General William Heath to make available every flat-bottomed riverboat and sloop in the area. General William Alexander held off the British Army and covered the retreat, and the army safely crossed the East River under the cover of darkness to Manhattan Island without loss of life or material—although the British captured General Alexander.[155] |
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Battle of Long Island |
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Howe was emboldened by his victory at Long Island and sent a dispatch addressed to "George Washington, Esq." attempting to negotiate peace. Washington declined the overture and demanded that he be addressed as a General and recognized as a fellow belligerent, not as a "rebel". He was concerned that his men would be hanged as rebels if they were captured, and he believed it his duty to insist that his men and the newly established United States be recognized with proper diplomatic protocol. The attempts at negotiation failed.[156] |
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The British navy bombarded unstable earthworks on lower Manhattan Island that had been constructed by the Patriots.[157] Washington considered abandoning the island, including Fort Washington, but he heeded the advice of Generals Greene and Israel Putnam to defend the fort. They were unable to hold it, however, and Washington abandoned it despite General Lee's objections; his army retired north to White Plains.[158] Howe pursued, and Washington was forced to retreat across the Hudson River to Fort Lee and avoid encirclement. Howe took the offensive; he landed his troops on the island on November 16, surrounded and captured Fort Washington, and inflicted high casualties on the Americans. Washington was responsible for the decision to delay the retreat, but he also faulted the Congress and Nathaniel Greene. Loyalists in New York considered Howe a liberator and spread a rumor that Washington had set fire to the city.[159] The morale in the Patriot army was at its lowest ebb, as the British captured General Lee while he was with his mistress.[160] |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware, December 25, 1776, Emanuel Leutze (1851)[i] |
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Washington's Patriot army retreated through northeast New Jersey, reduced to 5,400 troops.[162] Howe broke off pursuit on December 14, delayed his advance on Philadelphia, and set up winter quarters in New York.[163] Washington crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, where Lee's replacement John Sullivan and 2,000 troops joined him.[164] The future of the Continental Army was in doubt due to lack of basic supplies, expiring enlistments, a harsh winter and desertions. Washington was disappointed to discover that many New Jersey residents were Loyalists, or simply skeptical about the prospect of Independence.[165] Howe had split up his British Army and posted a Hessian garrison at Trenton, New Jersey to hold western New Jersey and the east shore of the Delaware.[166] |
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Learning of the complacency of the Howe's British Army, Washington met with his generals on Christmas Eve and devised an intricate plan of a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton.[167] Washington believed the future of the country was riding on his shoulders.[168] His code name for the campaign was "Victory or Death". Washington divided his army to cross the Delaware at three places, led by Washington (2,400 troops), General James Ewing (700 troops), and Colonel John Cadwalader (1,500 troops), to reach the Hessians at Trenton. Washington's force would then be split, with Washington taking the Pennington Road, and General Sullivan traveling on the river's edge, traveling south. [169] Prior to the crossing, Washington ordered a 60-mile search for barges along the Delaware to transport his army, particularly Durham boats,[j] and ordered the destruction of any vessels that could be used by the British.[171] |
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On Christmas Day, at sunset, Washington crossed the Delaware and staked out the river on the Jersey shore, at risk of being captured. The weather worsened by a winter storm, turning to heavy sleet, hail, and snow.[168] Washington's men crossed at McKonkey's Ferry, crowded on Durham boats, up to 40 men per vessel, obstructed by river ice. A northeaster wind churned up the waters, and Washington's men were pelted by hail exposed in their boats.[168] Washington's troops finally maded it all across, without losing a man, at 3:00 A.M. Henry Knox, in charge of transporting artillery, was delayed due to problems with managing frightened horses and transporting 18 field guns on flat bottom ferries. Cadwalader and Ewing, however, failed to cross the Delaware because of ice and heavy currents. Washington waited in dispair, while Knox and the rest of the Army crossed the Delaware, and feared he might have to abandon his attack on Trenton. [172] By 4:00 AM, Knox and his artillery regiments, finally made it across the Delaware. Rather than return his army to Pennsylvania, at risk of being spotted, Washington chose to go alone against the Hessians. |
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== socrates == |
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Trenton campaign |
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Main articles: Battle of Trenton and Battle of Princeton |
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Washington's scouts reported the location of the Hessian forward positions about one mile from Trenton. Washington split his force into two columns and rode about giving words of encouragement to his men: "Soldiers keep by your officers. For God's sake, keep by your officers." Washington stopped briefly at a nearby home while his senior officers gathered for a council of war. Moving on, the two columns separated at the Birmingham crossroads, with General Nathanael Greene's force taking the upper Ferry Road, led by Washington, while General John Sullivan's advanced on River Road.[173] (See map) Veiled by stormy weather, the Americans advanced on Trenton through the snow, sleet, and hail. Many of Washington's soldiers had no shoes and their feet were bloodied, while two soldiers died of exposure. At sunrise, in coordinated effort, the army attacked the unsuspecting Hessians.[174] Washington personally led the charge, aided by Major-General Henry Knox and his artillery,[175] with Hessian Colonel Johann Rall mortally wounded during the short battle.[176] |
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Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of his own absence of knowledge), and his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, for human beings. He was the inspiration for Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition. Plato in turn served as the teacher of Aristotle, thus establishing the famous triad of ancient philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Unlike other philosophers of his time and ours, Socrates never wrote anything down but was committed to living simply and to interrogating the everyday views and popular opinions of those in his home city of Athens. At the age of 70, he was put to death at the hands of his fellow citizens on charges of impiety and corruption of the youth. His trial, along with the social and political context in which occurred, has warranted as much treatment from historians and classicists as his arguments and methods have from philosophers. |
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This article gives an overview of Socrates: who he was, what he thought, and his purported method. It is both historical and philosophical. At the same time, it contains reflections on the difficult nature of knowing anything about a person who never committed any of his ideas to the written word. Much of what is known about Socrates comes to us from Plato, although Socrates appears in the works of other ancient writers as well as those who follow Plato in the history of philosophy. This article recognizes that finding the original Socrates may be impossible, but it attempts to achieve a close approximation. |
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The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 |
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John Trumbull |
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Hessian casualties included 22 killed 83 wounded. Washington also captured 850 British and Hessian troops and large amounts of supply and retreated back across the Delaware to Pennsylvania.[177] On January 3, he returned to New Jersey and launched an attack on British regulars at Princeton, with only 40 Americans killed or wounded while the British forces suffered 273 killed or captured.[178] American Generals Hugh Mercer and John Cadwalader were already present and being driven back by the British, then Mercer was mortally wounded. Washington arrived at the scene and rallied the men to counterattack, himself out front and advancing to within 30 yards of the British line.[179] |
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The remaining British troops retreated after making a brief stand, some evacuating Princeton and others taking refuge in Nassau Hall. Alexander Hamilton brought three cannons and began firing at the building where the British were holed up. Washington's troops charged, and in less than an hour the British put out the white flag of surrender; 194 soldiers walked out of the building and laid down their arms.[180] Howe retreated to New York City and its environs, where his army remained inactive until Spring.[181] Washington's depleted Continental Army took up winter headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, allowing them to disrupt British supply lines and drive the British from parts of New Jersey. He later admitted that the British could easily have defeated his thinly guarded encampment if they had counter-attacked before his troops were dug in.[182] |
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There is already an article on [[Socrates]]. — [[User:Frayae|Frayæ]] ([[User talk:Frayae|Talk]]/[[:is:Notandaspjall:Frayae|Spjall]]) 20:38, 24 October 2018 (UTC) |
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Washington's victories were pivotal for the revolution and wrecked the British strategy of showing overwhelming force, then offering generous terms.[183] Meanwhile, the British still controlled New York.[181] After the winter campaign, however, many Patriot soldiers did not re-enlist or had deserted during the harsh winter. Washington and Congress responded with increased rewards for re-enlisting and punishment for desertion, which effected greater troop numbers for later battles.[184] In the last two weeks of February, 1777, word reached London of Washington's victories at Trenton and Princeton, bringing with it the realization that the Americans were now in a position to demand complete independence with no conditions.[185] |
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Brandywine, Germantown, and Saratoga |
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The Americans were encamped at Morristown, New Jersey in February 1777, and Washington became convinced that smallpox inoculation was required to prevent the destruction of his Army; this drastically reduced deaths by the disease, according to some accounts.[186] That summer, British General John Burgoyne led a major invasion army south from Quebec, planning to sever New England. But General Howe, in British occupied New York,[181] made a strategic blunder and took his army south to Philadelphia instead of going up the Hudson River to join Burgoyne near Albany. Meanwhile, Washington rushed to Philadelphia to engage Howe, while he closely supervised the action in upstate New York where the Patriots were led by General Philip Schuyler and his successor Horatio Gates. The pitched battles at Philadelphia were too complex for Washington's less experienced men, and they were defeated.[187] |
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Hi, please don't post on the AFC help desk unless you have a specific question about a draft or similar questions. Your edits at the AFC help desk appeared to not meet those standards so they were reverted. If you want help writing or submitting a draft, see [[WP:YFA]] and the links there. Cheers. [[User:JC7V7DC5768|<em style="font-family:Rubik;color:Lollipop">JC7V</em>]]<small>[[User talk:JC7V7DC5768|'''<em style="font-family:Rubik;color:Lollipop">-talk</em>''']]</small> 18:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC) |
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Howe outmaneuvered Washington at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, and he marched unopposed into the American capital at Philadelphia. Washington's army unsuccessfully attacked the British garrison at Germantown in early October, and his loss at Philadelphia prompted some members of Congress to consider removing him from command. His supporters rallied behind him, referred to as the Conway Cabal, and the attempt failed.[188] |
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Meanwhile, Washington's strategy improved the situation for Gates' army during the Saratoga campaign to the north. He was most concerned about the movements of General Howe and was aware that Burgoyne was also moving south toward Saratoga from Quebec. He took some risks in July and sent reinforcements north commanded by Major General Benedict Arnold, his most aggressive field commander, and Major General Benjamin Lincoln. Burgoyne made two attempts to take Bemis Heights, then found himself trapped and beyond the reach of help from Howe. He was forced to retreat to Saratoga and ultimately surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga, which led to Howe's resignation in May 1778. This was a major turning point militarily and diplomatically; the French responded to Burgoyne's defeat by entering the war, allying with America and expanding the Revolutionary War into a worldwide affair (from the perspective of the British).[189] |
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Washington was concerned that Gate's victory was going to give impetus to his critics.[190] Biographer Alden suggests that "it was inevitable that the defeats of Washington's forces and the concurrent victory of the forces in upper New York should be compared." The zealous admiration of Washington waned, with John Adams giving him little credit. [191] |
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Valley Forge, Monmouth, and Southern campaigns |
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Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge |
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John Ward Dunsmore (1907) |
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Washington's army of 11,000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777 and suffered thousands of deaths over the next six months. Most were from disease, compounded by lack of food and proper clothing, poor shelter, and the extreme cold. Historians’ estimates range from 2,000 to more than 3,000 men lost.[192] The British, by contrast, were comfortably quartered in Philadelphia; they paid for their supplies in pounds sterling, while Washington had difficulty procuring supplies with depreciating American paper currency. The woodlands were soon exhausted of game, and Washington was faced with the task of maintaining morale and discouraging desertion by February.[193] |
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Washington had repeatedly petitioned the Continental Congress for badly needed provisions but without success. Finally, five Congressmen came to Valley Forge on January 24, 1778 to check the conditions of the Continental Army. Washington expressed the urgency of the situation, exclaiming, "Something must be done. Important alterations must be made." He also recommended that Congress take control of the army supply system, pay for supplies, and hasten them to the troops. In response to his urgent appeal, Congress gave full support to funding the supply lines of the army, which also resulted in reorganizing the commissary department which gathered the supplies for the army. By late February, there were adequate supplies arriving at the camp.[147] |
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Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth |
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Emanuel Leutze (1851–1854) |
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Washington recruited men into the regular army and assigned their training to Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, whose incessant drilling soon transformed them into a disciplined fighting force.[194] Washington's army had endured the winter that many feared would dissolve it, and a revitalized army emerged from Valley Forge the following spring.[195] Von Steuben was promoted to Major General for his effort and became Washington's chief of staff for the rest of the war.[196] |
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In May 1778, the Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Alliance with King Louis XVI of France which allied the French military and navy with America.[197] The British evacuated Philadelphia for New York in June 1778, and Washington summoned a council of war with Generals Lee, Greene, Wayne, and Lafayette. He chose a partial attack on the retreating British at the Battle of Monmouth; the British were commanded by Howe's successor General Henry Clinton. Lee and Lafayette moved with 4,000 men and bungled their first attack on June 28, without Washington's knowledge. Washington relieved Lee and continued fighting to an effective draw in one of the war's largest battles. Nightfall came and the British continued their retreat to New York, where Washington moved his army outside the city.[198] Monmouth was the last major battle that Washington fought in the north; he deemed it more important to protect his army than to keep the British from occupying towns which rarely had anything to offer the British army.[199] |
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In late 1778, General Clinton sent 3,000 troops by ship from New York to Georgia and launched a Southern invasion. [200] He seized Savannah, reinforced by 2,000 British and Loyalist troops, and repelled an attack by Patriots and French naval forces.[200] The success bolstered the British War effort.[200] Clinton assembled 12,500 troops and attacked Charlestown in January 1780, defeating General Lincoln who only had 5,100 Continental troops.[201] The British went on to occupy the South Carolina Piedmont in June, with almost no Patriot resistance.[201] Clinton returned to New York and left 8,000 troops commanded by Lord Cornwallis.[202] Congress replaced Lincoln with Gates, despite Washington's recommendation of Greene. Gates failed in South Carolina and was replaced by Greene, and the British had the South in their grasp. Despite this bleak situation, Washington was encouraged when he learned in mid-1780 that Lafayette had returned from France with more ships, men, and supplies.[203] |
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Sullivan expedition and Hudson River |
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Main article: Sullivan Expedition |
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In the summer of 1779, Washington and Congress decided to strike the Iroquois warriors of the "Six Nations" in a campaign to force Britain's Indian allies out of New York, which they had used as a base to attack American settlements around New England.[204] The Indian warriors joined with Tory rangers led by Walter Butler and slew more than 200 frontiersmen in June, using barbarities normally shunned, and they laid waste to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.[205] Washington ordered General John Sullivan to lead a military operation in August, prompted by massacres and many attacks on American civilians, and to affect "the total destruction and devastation" of all Iroquois villages and to take their women and children as hostages. Those who managed to escape fled to British protection in Canada.[206] Sullivan later reported that the expedition had been accomplished, referring to the Iroquois as "inhuman barbarians".[207] |
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Washington went into quarters at Morristown, New Jersey during the harsh winter of 1779–80, which subjected the troops to some of the worst suffering during the war with temperatures well below freezing. New York Harbor was frozen over, and snow and ice covered the ground for weeks, with the troops again lacking provisions for a time as at Valley Forge. |
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West Point espionage |
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Main articles: West Point and Military career of Benedict Arnold, 1777–79 |
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A page from the Culper Ring's codebook, listing the men whom Washington gathered to be agents |
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Washington had worked hard to develop a successful espionage system to detect British locations and plans, and he has been called "Americas First Spymaster".[208] In 1778, he ordered Major Benjamin Tallmadge to form the Culper Ring to collect information about the British in New York.[209] He was usually mindful of treachery, but he ignored incidents of disloyalty by Benedict Ar |
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Please stop copying/pasting material as you have been doing. It is becoming disruptive. Please read and heed the above linked page.-- Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:02, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
socrates
[edit]Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of his own absence of knowledge), and his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, for human beings. He was the inspiration for Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition. Plato in turn served as the teacher of Aristotle, thus establishing the famous triad of ancient philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Unlike other philosophers of his time and ours, Socrates never wrote anything down but was committed to living simply and to interrogating the everyday views and popular opinions of those in his home city of Athens. At the age of 70, he was put to death at the hands of his fellow citizens on charges of impiety and corruption of the youth. His trial, along with the social and political context in which occurred, has warranted as much treatment from historians and classicists as his arguments and methods have from philosophers.
This article gives an overview of Socrates: who he was, what he thought, and his purported method. It is both historical and philosophical. At the same time, it contains reflections on the difficult nature of knowing anything about a person who never committed any of his ideas to the written word. Much of what is known about Socrates comes to us from Plato, although Socrates appears in the works of other ancient writers as well as those who follow Plato in the history of philosophy. This article recognizes that finding the original Socrates may be impossible, but it attempts to achieve a close approximation.
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[edit]There is already an article on Socrates. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 20:38, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
AFC Help Desk
[edit]Hi, please don't post on the AFC help desk unless you have a specific question about a draft or similar questions. Your edits at the AFC help desk appeared to not meet those standards so they were reverted. If you want help writing or submitting a draft, see WP:YFA and the links there. Cheers. JC7V-talk 18:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
October 2018
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 19:56, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- ferret (talk) 20:24, 25 October 2018 (UTC)Semi-protected edit request on 25 October 2018
[edit]Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween series of slasher films. He first appears in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) as a young boy who murders his sister, Judith Myers, and then, fifteen years later, returns home to Haddonfield to murder more teenagers. In the original Halloween, the adult Michael Myers, referred to as The Shape in the closing credits, was portrayed by Nick Castle for most of the film, with Tony Moran and Tommy Lee Wallace substituting in the final scenes. The character was created by Debra Hill and John Carpenter and has appeared in ten films, as well as novels, multiple video games, and several comic books.
The character is the primary antagonist in the Halloween film series, except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which is not connected in continuity to the rest of the films. Since Castle, Moran, and Wallace put on the mask in the original film, six people have stepped into the same role. Castle, George P. Wilbur, and Tyler Mane are the only actors to have portrayed Michael Myers more than once, with Mane being the only one to do so in consecutive films. Michael Myers is characterized as pure evil, both directly in the films, by the filmmakers who created and developed the character over nine films, as well as by random participants in a survey.[1][2] The mask Michael Myers wears is a Captain Kirk mask which was painted white. The mask was made from a cast of William Shatner's face which was originally used in the 1975 horror film The Devil's Rain.[3][4]
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[edit]thank you