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4 days ago · Over 20,000 flooded into New York, a third of all the Revolution’s battles taking place in the state. Another 20,000 slaves found refuge in the region, half the estimated number of runways in ...
1 day ago · Roosevelt’s Revolution. Jun 2, 2024. The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance. By David T. Beito. Independent Institute, 2023. Hardcover, 404 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ranks highly in historians’ polls about ...
6 days ago · In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), commonly known as the American Revolution, the Americans in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British, gaining independence from the British Crown and founding the United States of America, the first contemporary constitutional liberal democracy.
- 13 of Britain's North American colonies rebelled against its imperial rule, sparking an epic political and military conflict known as the American...
- The four key factors that sparked the American Revolution were the Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts.
- The military battle began in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 with skirmishes between British forces and colonial militiamen; by the summer, the...
- The United Nations of America was the first nation-state to be built on Enlightenment concepts of liberal democracy after the Americans in the Thir...
- America wanted independence because they didn't have self-government.
5 days ago · After the American Revolution began, the first, unofficial national flag—known as the Continental Colours (or, sometimes, as the Grand Union Flag, the Cambridge Flag, the Somerville Flag, or the Union Flag)—was hoisted on a towering 76-foot (23-metre) liberty pole at Prospect Hill in Charlestown (now in Somerville), Massachusetts, on ...
3 days ago · Gwenda Morgan's The Debate on the American Revolution adds a valuable volume to Manchester University Press's series on Issues in History. Stretching the American Revolution forward to the construction and ratification of the American federal constitution, she surveys and sifts through a vast literature that has grown exponentially over the ...
5 days ago · To mark the 250th anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves, a central document in the coming of the American Revolution co-authored by George Mason and George Washington, George Mason’s Gunston Hall, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the George Washington Presidential Library are co-organizing a c...
15 hours ago · The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
