- NPS Museum Collections 'The American Revolutionary War'
Check out the National Park Service's multi park exhibit showcases of museum and archival collections about the American Revolution. One of the Valley Forge Archivists pointed out this link, Thanks
Highlights of the museum collection of the American Revolutionary War by the National Park Service.
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- Railroad History, Railways, Locomotives, entrepreneurs, business history 19c American, Jensen
This web page contains resources and information about railroad history, mainly 19th century information, compiled by retired professor of History, Richard Jenson.
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- Railroad Invention and History
Read this short history of railroad histrory from this short article by Mary Bellis, the About.com Guide to Inventors. This site also has more information about other inventions of the 18th century.
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- RANGERS IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
From the United States Army history site, you can read about the Rangers in colonial and revolutionary America.
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- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 1790
Read what Edmund Burke thinks about the French Revolution in this classic letter to Thomas Paine in 1790.
Edmund Burke wrote this letter to Thomas Paine about his ideas of the French Revolution, which set off a debate over political theory in the later half of the 18th century.
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- Regiments at Valley Forge
This site is a listing of the Regiments of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. This site is a part of the Historic Valley Forge web site.
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- Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
Religion played a major role in the American Revolution. Find out how and why in this section of the Library of Congress's Exhibition, Religion and the founding of the American Republic.
III. Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition). Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British--an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.
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- 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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