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The power struggle between major European powers in North America created the preconditions for the American ...
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Atlantic port seaman resistance, American Revolutionary era
In November 1747 the inhabitants of Boston were up in arms. What began as a group of 300 sailors swelled, ...
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John Horne Tooke was an English political activist and philologist, and the only Briton to be put in ...
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Ireland, Age of Revolutions, 1775–1803
In her study of eighteenth-century Ireland, Edith Mary Johnston (1974) employs an elegant aphorism to ...
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Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826) and his revolutionary idea
The revolution considered by Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was one that sought to encourage rebellion ...
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Lafayette, Marquis de (1757–1834)
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was a wealthy French aristocrat ...
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Writing of “the times that try men's souls” in his essay The Crisis , Thomas Paine issued the battle-cry ...
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Rochambeau, Comte de (1725–1807)
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, was a French aristocrat, a military leader, and ...
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Shays' Rebellion reflects early America's continued disdain for taxes and the emerging debate over the ...
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Washington, George (1732–1799)
George Washington was more than the first president of the United States, he was the very model delegates ...
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