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Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies ... that would lead to the American Revolution. After the Stamp and ...
After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775 ...
Still, for people living in the 13 colonies—free or enslaved—the American Revolution changed life much less fundamentally. David K. Allison, curator emeritus, National Museum of American ...
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established ...
The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for independence by the American colonies against their ... this confrontation kicked off the American Revolution. Ultimately, the war concluded ...
Listen to Kathleen DuVal, professor of history at the University of North Carolina (one of the 13 original ... well established with colonies in India when the American Revolution began and ...
By the time the Continental Congress approved the text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies and ... The American Revolution, not the bloody conflict between ...
British monarch George III inherited the throne in 1760—just in time to oversee rising tensions with the American colonies lead to a revolution that reshaped his empire and the world.