The Revolutionary War waged by the American colonies against Great Britain influenced political ideas and revolutions around the globe, as a small fledgling nation won its freedom from the greatest military powe
What we know fondly as the “Stars and Stripes” was adopted by the Continental Congress as the official American flag onJune 14, 1777, during the Revolutionary War. Colonial troops fought under many different flags with various symbols—rattlesnakes, pine trees, and eagles—and slogans—”Don’...
1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne’s(约翰·伯戈因) army in the American Revolutionary War (known outside the US as the American War of Independence) and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. The...
Declaration of Independence announced by Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia that the thirteen colonies currently at war with Britain now considered themselves an independent nation, the United States of America, and no longer under British rule. Declaration was passed with no dissenting votes two...
These issues led to the War of 1812, which solidified American control of the West and respect for their flag on the sea. The results of the Revolutionary War damaged Britain globally, opening advantageous trade routes and a sympathetic American government to the British arch-rival, the French....
The Grand Union Flag 3rd December 1775 By the end of 1775, during the first year of the American Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress operated as a de facto war government authorized the creation of an Army, a Navy and even a Marine Corps. A new flag was required to represen...
The nation’s first settlers adopted the British militia system, which required all able-bodied men between 16 and 60 to bear arms. Some 100,000 men served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Probably twice that number soldiered as militiamen, for the most part defending the...
Also documented are the vital contributions of African Americans and Native Americans in the struggle and the roles of Revolutionary War heroines such as Kate Barry, Emily Geiger, Rebecca Brewton Motte, and Dorcas Nelson Richardson. The origins of the South Carolina state flag and seal in the ...
Did you know that Paul Revere didn't ride alone, and there were women on the Revolutionary War battlefields? Find out more about the war's lesser-known patriots. 1. They provided ideological underpinnings. “Give me liberty or give me death!”Patrick Henry’s forceful declaration to the Seco...
him” — JOSEPH WARREN. It falls in the loveliest season of the year, and it commemorates the most familiar and famous of the Revolutionary battles, and will be observed with an enthusiasm which all that of the late great day will not abate. General DEVENS, now upon the Massachusetts bench...