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1764 to 1824. The Revolutionary Era in Virginia. Virginia—the largest and most populous colony—played a major role in winning independence and determining the values and aspirations of the new nation. At both the start and end of the Revolutionary War, Virginia became a battlefield.
Dec 31, 2015 · The Virginia Company of London was a joint-stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to establish a colony in North America. Such a venture allowed the Crown to reap the benefits of colonization—natural resources, new markets for English goods, leverage against the Spanish—without bearing the costs.
- Theaters of The American Revolution
- The Politics of War
- A Revolutionary People at War
- Arms and Independence
- A Respectable Army
Theaters of the American Revolutionwas written by James Kirby Martin and David Preston in 2017. Following an editor’s introduction to the war spanning 1775 to 1781, five essays look at the theaters of war charting how the Revolution’s events moved from region to region. Descriptions of the colonial terrain, settlement and cities set the scene for b...
The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginiawas written by Michael A. McDonnell in 2007 and reprinted in 2010. Here the focus is on explaining some democratization of state and county politics, slave resistance and the war experience at home, revealing a society at war with itself almost as much as with Britain. The lande...
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783was written by Charles Royster in 1979 and reprinted in 1996. Royster examines American attitudes and conduct towards the principle of revolution as it related to military service and the military. In 1775 the American revolt began with a “rage militaire” driven by...
Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolutionwas written by Peter J. Albert and Ronald Hoffman in 1984. It explains that each side confined itself to orthodox warfare for the most part, avoiding irregular warfare except in the Carolinas after 1778. An important element of establishing national identity was the creation an...
A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789was written by James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender in 1982 and reprinted in 2015. Within its account of the campaigns and battles of the Revolution, it narrates social, political and intellectual developments shaping the Revolutionary military establishment from early rage mil...
Mar 8, 2010 · (MPI/Getty Images) On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the...
Oct 23, 2020 · The Jamestown Colony in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607. It was the third attempt of the Virginia Company of London to establish a permanent trade center in the Americas following the failures of the Roanoke Colony (1587-1590) and the Popham Colony of 1607-1608.
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Oct 29, 2009 · The Revolutionary War (1775-83), also known as the American Revolution, arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government,...
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The Colony of Virginia was an English, later British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
