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Five Myths about the American Revolution that Everyone Believes - Cracked
Since fictional superheroes usually get cool origin stories, it makes sense that an actual global superpower needs to have one. Luckily for the United States, the Revolutionary War was precisely such a tale. Bloody, heroic, and seasoned with all kinds of awesome, the entire eight-year period was dripping with fantastic stories and scrappy underdog moments.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20306_5-myths-about-revolutionary-war-everyone-believes.html
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Three Reasons the British Should Have Won the Revolutionary War - The History Reader
George Washington called the American victory in the Revolutionary war "little short of a standing miracle." In 1776, an overwhelming British army had defeated his poorly trained force, driven them out of New York City, and chased them across New Jersey. A year later Washington had effectively won the war.
http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/three-reasons-the-british-should-have-won-the-revolutionary-war/
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American Revolution, Battles, Facts and Pictures - History
The war of independence waged by the American colonies against Britain influenced political ideas and revolutions around the globe, as a fledgling, largely disconnected nation won its freedom from the greatest military force of its time.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution
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American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence and the Revolutionary War in the United States, was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
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Top Continental Army Generals in the American Revolution
In addition to George Washington, during the course of the American Revolution, the Continental Congress commissioned seventy-seven other men as general officers, with four - Seth Pomeroy, John Whetcomb, John Cadwalader, and Joseph Reed - declining the honor. In fact, Cadwalader declined twice, much to Washington's regret.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/08/top-10-continental-army-generals/
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Revolutionary War Generals - Revolutionary-War
Revolutionary War generals constitute some of the most famous Americans and British in history. A surprising number of people made their names during the American War for Independence.
http://www.revolutionary-war.net/revolutionary-war-generals.html
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Reasons for the Revolution on Colonial Williamsburg's Web Site - History
Explore the colonial dateline and historical buildings, visit the Capitol, where many of these documents were debated, and the Raleigh Tavern, where the debates continued after Governor Dunmore dissolved the House of Burgesses.
http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/4thjuly.cfm
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Myths of the American Revolution - Smithsonian Magazine
A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America's War of Independence.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the-american-revolution-10941835
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What If America Had Lost the Revolutionary War? - The Atlantic
The Fourth of July - A time we Americans set aside to celebrate our independence and mark the war we waged to achieve it, along with the battles that followed. There was the War of 1812, the War of 1833, the First Ohio-Virginia War, the Three States' War, the First Black Insurrection, the Great War, the Second Black Insurrection, the Atlantic War, the Florida Intervention.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/what-if-america-had-lost-the-revolutionary-war/373964/
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British History in Depth: Was the American Revolution Inevitable?
Writing with the benefit of hindsight in 1818, John Adams, one of the central figures in the American Revolution, recalled that Americans were committed to independence in their hearts long before war broke out in America in 1775.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/american_revolution_01.shtml
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