Fun Facts!

• His headstone says “His fame his best epitaph.”

• He was a redhead!

• He had seventeen kids combined from both his marriages and somewhere around 66 grandkids.

• Patrick Henry was the first to call voters “fellow citizens”

• He was called many things, including the “Trumpet of the Revolution” and John Adams referred to him as the “Demosthenes of America”

• He was initially against the Declaration of Independence. He thought that the U.S. needed a strong new government before they tried to get rid of their old one.

• After giving his “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech, one man sitting in the window was so inspired, he said, “Let me be buried at this spot!” And so he was, when he died in 1810.

• He liked playing the fiddle.

• He didn’t like books and studying; instead, he enjoyed hunting and fishing by himself.

• When he was a lawyer, he would stop to hunt on this way to the courthouse. Then when he arrived at court, he would walk in with blood all over his clothes and a dead animal on his shoulder.

• Most of the other politcal figures of Henry's time that came from Virginia learned the Classics but Patrick Henry never did.

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