Loyalist (American Revolution), Boston campaign, Invasion of Canada (1775), New York and New Jersey campaign, Saratoga campaign, Philadelphia campaign, Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, France in the American Revolutionary War, Spain in the American Revolutionary War, Southern theater...
While formal Revolutionary politics did not include women, ordinary domestic behaviors became charged with political significance as patriot women confronted a war that permeated all aspects of political, civil, and domestic life. They participated by boycotting British goods, spying on the British, fo...
Loyalist (American Revolution), Boston campaign, Invasion of Canada (1775), New York and New Jersey campaign, Saratoga campaign, Philadelphia campaign, Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War, France in the American Revolutionary War, Spain in the American Revolutionary War, Southern theater...
The contest for New York was by far the largest military venture of the Revolutionary War; it involved almost every significant participant in the war on both sides; and there can be little doubt that during this campaign, the fate of America hung in the balance on several occasions. A ...
and then united against the British to defend that self-governance from 1775 to 1783 in the armed conflict known as theAmerican Revolutionary War(or the "American War of Independence"). This resulted in the states breaking away from the empire with theDeclaration of Independencein 1776, effective...
The British public’s support for the costly war in North America was quickly waning. The Americans took advantage of the British southern strategy with significant aid from the French army and navy. In October, Washington marched his troops from New York to Virginia in an effort to trap the...
On Feb. 7, 1965, American jets based on the Seventh Fleet aircraft carriers bombarded and shelled the city of Dong Hoi and other inhabited areas of the DRV in the area of the 17th parallel, and in April the USA began the systematic bombardment and shelling of the southern regions of the...
Massachusetts militia, ‘the Minutemen’, turning out to oppose the British march to Concord on 19th April 1775 at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War Virginia and the southern colonies were different in character. Tobacco growing along the ‘Tideway’ coastline was the backbone of the...
presaged the Civil War.流血的堪萨斯预示着内战。The actions of abolitionist John BrownPerceived insult 11、s to Southern collective honor included the enormous popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and the actions of abolitionist John Brown in trying to incite a slave rebellion in 1859.3认为南方...
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