The American Revolution was by no means a purely American-British conflict. The fight for American independence piqued the interest of Europe’s most powerful colonial powers. The result of this conflict would not only determine the fate of the thirteen North American colonies, but also alter the...
The diplomatic revolution established an Anglo-Prussian camp, allied with some smaller German states and later Portugal, as well as an Austro-French camp, allied with Sweden, Saxony and later Spain. The Russian Empire left its offensive alliance with the Habsburgs on the succession of Peter III...
It is part of the patriotic mythology of the American Revolution that the American colonists were fighting the best army in Europe in the British Army. This was not the case. The British Army was decades behind the Prussian Army in the education of its officers and the training of its soldi...
List of notable or famous mathematicians from the United States, with bios and photos, including the top mathematicians born in the United States and even ...
"The world cannot be half democratic and half autocratic. It must be all democratic or all Prussian. There can be no compromise," he voiced a general truth. Precisely the same intuition has already taught the blindest and most hostile foe of woman suffrage that our nation cannot long continu...
First Legion is extremely pleased to present the first of our personality figures of the American Revolution! Long previewed on our workbench, we are excited to finally bring you AWI056 General Cornwallis & His Dogs. In addition, of course we had to do a Mounted General Washington to lead th...
Valley Forge was the third of eight Winter Encampments during the American Revolution. Discover why it was important enough to commemorate as a National Park. See the home of 18-year-old James Audubon, who was dispatched here (by his French father) to avoid conscription in Napoleon’s army....
The American Revolution03 下载积分:600 内容提示: 181FACING STALEMATEBoth Patriot military operations and Britain’s strategy to secure the rebellious colonies were transformed during the course of 1778.FRANCE JOINS THE FRAY After years of secretly sending the Americans guns and ammunition, the French ...
The uniquely nationalist sentiment of the English soldier dates back long into the past. To quote historian Linda Colley: “a popular sense of Englishness . . . considerably predates the French Revolution.” An Italian visitor to England in 1548 described his hosts thus: “the English are commo...
routinely sat unread for more than a year before the university librarian got around to putting them on the shelf.It was Oppenheimer’s good fortune to arrive shortly before an extraordinary revolution in theoretical physics drew to its close: Max Planck’s discovery of quanta (photons); Einstein...