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Oct 19, 2010 · American Revolution. The Revolutionary War waged by the American colonies against Britain influenced political ideas and revolutions around the globe, as a small fledgling nation won its...
- Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American...
- Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March...
- Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, born into obscurity in the West Indies,...
- Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest staged on...
- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman, author,...
- Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold's Early Life. Benedict Arnold was born on...
- Battle of Bunker Hill
At the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, early in the...
- Writing of Declaration of Independence
On June 11, 1776, Congress selected a "Committee of Five,"...
- Paul Revere
Paul Revere was a colonial Boston silversmith,...
- Revolutionary War
These events led us into the Revolutionary War. See more in this epic three hour marathon from The Revolution.
- 176 min
- 11.6M
- HISTORY
- Causes of The Revolutionary War
- Declaring Independence
- Saratoga: Revolutionary War Turning Point
- Stalemate in The North, Battle in The South
- Revolutionary War Draws to A Close
For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolutionin 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. The French and Indian War, or Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), brought new territories under the power of the crown, but the expensive conflict lead to new and unpopular taxes. Attempts by the British ...
When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, delegates—including new additions Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson—voted to form a Continental Army, with Washington as its commander in chief. On June 17, in the Revolution’s first major battle, colonial forces inflicted heavy casualties on the British regiment of General William...
British strategy in 1777 involved two main prongs of attack aimed at separating New England (where the rebellion enjoyed the most popular support) from the other colonies. To that end, General John Burgoyne’s army marched south from Canada toward a planned meeting with Howe’s forces on the Hudson River. Burgoyne’s men dealt a devastating loss to th...
During the long, hard winter at Valley Forge, Washington’s troops benefited from the training and discipline of the Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich von Steuben (sent by the French) and the leadership of the French aristocrat Marquis de Lafayette. On June 28, 1778, as British forces under Sir Henry Clinton (who had replaced Howe as supreme...
By the fall of 1781, Greene’s American forces had managed to force Cornwallis and his men to withdraw to Virginia’s Yorktown peninsula, near where the York River empties into Chesapeake Bay. Supported by a French army commanded by General Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau, Washington moved against Yorktown with a total of around 14,000 soldiers, while a ...
The Revolution (also known as The American Revolution) is a 2006 American miniseries from The History Channel composed of thirteen episodes which track the American Revolution from the Boston Massacre through the Treaty of Paris, which declared America's independence from Great Britain.
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The Revolution: With Bryan Stefancyk, Larry A. Maxwell, John W. Hall, Bryan Kennedy. The history of the United States of America. From colonies under British rule to the inauguration of the first president of the United States of America.
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- 2006
- History, War
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Apr 26, 2005 · Revisit the birth of a nation in this truly definitive look at America's fight for independence and its world-changing rise to glory. The American Revolution features ten powerful documentaries--more than eight hours of essential programming by THE HISTORY CHANNEL® and A&E on DVD for the first time.
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