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The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against corruption.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
In April and early May, when peasants begged the governor of Dijon for bread, he uttered those famous words that would later be recalled during the French Revolution: "The grass has sprouted, go to the fields and browse on it." Houses of the wealthy were seized and occupied, flour-mills were destroyed, and furniture was smashed.
Reviews in American History. 46 (1): 14– 20. ISSN 0048-7511. JSTOR 48558671. Kloppenberg, James T. (2017). "Review of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804". The Journal of American History. 104 (3): 756. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 48548985. Orr, Ittai (2017). "The Room Where It Happened: Race and the American Revolution ...
July 6 – American Revolution – Battle of Green Spring July 9–24 – American Revolution – Francisco's Fight July 29 – American Revolution – Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe: A Tory force under David Fanning attacks Phillip Alston's smaller force of Whigs at Alston's home in Cumberland County, North Carolina (in present-day Moore County, North Carolina).
O'Donnell, James H. Southern Indians in the American Revolution. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973. ISBN 0-87049-131-8. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2014). Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution ...
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution is a 2015 nonfiction book by American historian Kathleen DuVal.Focusing on the effects of the American Revolution on the frontiers of Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida, Independence Lost incorporates biographies of eight individual historical figures alongside more general analysis of the Gulf Coast during the 18th and ...