• Rhode Island: Gaspee Days (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - Library of Congress)
  "Held annually in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island, Gaspee Days celebrates the June 1772 burning of the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee by the colonists of Rhode Island."- (web site) Learn more about this celebration here.
  Rhode Island. Local Legacies Project Celebrating Community Roots: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Gaspee Days Children's Colonial Costume Contest June 4, 1995 Children's Colonial Costume ContestHeld annually in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island,Gaspee Days celebrates the June 1772 burning of the British revenueschooner HMS Gaspee 
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• Spy Networks -- The Culper Gang
  This informative site examines the Culper Spy Ring that worked for George Washington during the American Revolution.
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• Spy System 1777
  From the Historic Valley Forge web site, learn about the elaborate spy system of the American side. This article was written by John F. Reed, from The Picket Post, Valley Forge Historical Society, Winter 1976.
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• The 2nd North Carolina Regiment History
  Read this brief history of this unit who served in the Continental line of the American Revolution. This history is from the re-enacting groups web site.
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• The Battle of Bunker Hill
  The Battle of Bunker Hill was the bloodiest clash of the American Revolution. The British suffered 1054 casualties. American casualties were less than 450. This was a tactical victory for the British but for the Americans it was a moral victory because they had successfully held off the most powerful army in the world.
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• The Battle of Cowpens
  Read about the turning point of the American Revolution in the South from this article on the National Park service web site.
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• The Boston Riot of 26 August 1765
  This account of the destruction of the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, is from a letter written by Hutchinson to Richard Jackson on 30 August. The riot mentioned here is refering to the Stamp act problems, thus, one of many Stamp Act Riots in the Colonies.
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• The Conway Cabal
  Learn how in the Autumn of 1777 a plot between a clique of the Continental Congress and a group of Coontinental Army generals attempted to replace General Washington as Commander of the Army.
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• The E Pluribus Unum Project: America in the 1770's
  The topics, essays, and resources of this exhibit reflect the belief that it is by examining the exchange of ideas through speech, print, and public performances of the period that can best help us analyze the origins and meanings of the American Revolution.
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• The King's Loyalist Units
  Learn about the Loyalists units in New York from Greg Ketcham's Drums along the Mohawk site.
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• The Man Who Saved a Revolution: The Newburgh Address
  In this article from history1700s.com you will learn how one man stopped a conspiracy by simply reading a letter using reading glasses.
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• The Men Behind the American Revolution
  Learn about the movers and shakers of the American Revolution in these articles found on History1700s.com.
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• Thomas Hutchinson
  This page is a short biography of the Governor of Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution. Thomas Hutchinson is the man that the patriots hated because he upheld the unwanted taxes and parliamentery intrusions on the Massachusetts colonial legislature.
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• Thomas Hutchinson & the Origins of the American Revolution Historical Journal of Massachusetts - Find Articles
  This is a book review about Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution. It exolains how this man and his views may have led to the out break of the Revolutionary war.
  Thomas Hutchinson & the Origins of the American Revolution from Historical Journal of Massachusetts in Reference & Education provided free by LookSmart Find Articles.
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• Thomas Hutchinson: Boston's Leading Citizen -- Part One
  This interesting article, found on Suite 101 is an in depth examination of Thomha Hutchinson. Check it out.
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• Thomas Paine
  Learn all about Thomas Paine on this web site and take a look at his revolutionary writings.
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• Thomas Paine Writings
  On this site you will be able to read the collected works of Thomas Paine, the man who is famous for writing Common Sense during the American Revolutionary era.
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• Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution in 2 vols
  This is the updated version of Mercy Otis Warrens's history of the American Revolution in 2 volumes. The original book set was published in 1805. This book set is also available in print from the Liberty Fund Inc.
  The Online Library of Liberty is provided in order to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals by making freely available on the internet the classic texts in the classical liberal and free market traditions.
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• Weapons of the American Revolution
  From the 11th Pennsylvania Regimental reenacting unit's web site, check out this section on the Weapons of the American Revolution.
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