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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: American Revolutionary War
		The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists overthrew British rule.
		At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the British Regular Army comprised 2 Troops of Horse Guards, 5 Regiments of Horse, 3 Regiments of Dragoon Guards, 14 Regiments of Dragoons, 3 Regiments of Light Dragoons, 3 Regiments of Foot Guards and 70 Regiments of Foot.
		During the Wars (for during this period the fighting was not constant) warfare was to change and move towards modern warfare leaving behind forever the idea of war as a sport of kings and moving towards the concept of Total War and the nations in arms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American_Revolutionary_War/Combatants_before_1778 (2376 words)

	American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The war was the culmination of the American Revolution, a colonial struggle against political and economic policies of the British Empire.
		American militiamen and their Indian allies marched to relieve the siege but were ambushed and scattered at the Battle of Oriskany on August 6.
		While French financial assistance to the American war effort was already of critical importance, French military aid to the Americans would not show positive results until the arrival in July 1780 of an expeditionary force led by the Comte de Rochambeau.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_War_of_Independence (6165 words)

	Causes of the French Revolution - France.com
		France in 1789 was one of the richest and most powerful nations in Europe.
		France in 1789 was, at least in theory, an absolute monarchy, an increasingly unpopular form of government at the time.
		France had played a deciding role in the American Revolutionary War, (1775-1783) sending its navy and troops to aid the rebelling colonists.
	www.france.com /docs/153.html (802 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : American Revolutionary War (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire, and eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain.
		France officially entered the war in 1778 and soon sent troops, ships, and military equipment to fight against the British for the remainder of the war.
		Full of resentment, Native Americans reluctantly confirmed these land cessions with the United States in a series of treaties, but the result was essentially an armed truce—the fighting would be renewed in conflicts along the frontier, the largest being the Northwest Indian War.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /American_Revolutionary_War (5486 words)

	France in the American Revolution 1776-1777
		France eagerly watched for rebellion in America from the days of the Stamp Act excitement, as a means for avenging the injuries she had received from Great Britain.
		She was always saying pleasant things to the Americans, and trying to attract them to herself by professions of friendship and sympathy.
		Silas Deane was sent to France by Congress in the spring of 1776, as a commercial agent to obtain supplies for an army.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/franceame_ja.html (696 words)

	Dictionary of the USA: A - EnchantedLearning.com
		After the Revolution, in 1783, Adams went to France to sign the Treaty of Paris, and became the first US ambassador to Great Britain from 1785 to 1788 (this was a very difficult position, since the British were not pleased with the outcome of the war).
		The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war started by the 13 colonies in North America, who wanted their indpendence from Great Britian.
		Attucks was the American son of a native African father and a woman belonging to the Natick Indian tribe.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /history/us/enc (2176 words)

	American Revolution - Revolutionary War Timeline
		Following the victory, American troops head northwest and destroy nearly 40 Cayuga and Seneca Indian villages in retaliation for the campaign of terror against American settlers.
		Hopes for a British victory in the war against America are dashed.
		November 10 - Americans retaliate against Loyalist and Indian forces by attacking a Shawnee Indian village in the Ohio territory in the last battle of the war.
	www.americanrevolution.com /Timeline.htm (2249 words)

	John Paul Jones
		John Paul Jones (1747–1792), American Revolutionary War naval hero, often called the “Father of the American Navy,” was born in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright county, Scotland, on July 6, 1747.
		As captain of the sloop of war Providence and as commander of both the Alfred and the Providence, he captured valuable British merchantmen and destroyed important fisheries and many vessels.
		Accordingly, on June 14, 1777, he received the command of the new sloop of war Ranger, one of the first naval vessels to fly the Stars and Stripes, and sailed to France.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/JONES.HTM (2150 words)

	American Revolutionary War [encyclopedia]
		It has been mistakenly called the American Revolution but the American Revolution began much earlier and was a larger scheme including the war.) was a war fought between the British Crown and its colonies in North America, allied with France, from 1775 to 1783.
		The eventual outcome was the recognition of independence of the 13 southernmost of the colonies, as well as lightly settled territories west to the Mississippi River.
		In November 1782 a peace agreement was reached although the formal end of the War did not occur until the Treaty of Paris was signed in November of 1783 and the United States Congress ratified the treaty on January 14, 1784.
	www.artzia.com /History/Wars/American_Revolution (1142 words)

	franklin in france revolutionary literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
		war with France loomed in 1754, Franklin represented Pennsylvania...
		Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution.
	www.books-network.com /articles/38/franklin-in-france-revolutionary-literature.html (390 words)

	Decades History Timelines - American Revolutionary War (1778) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Franco-American Treaty of Alliance bound the 2 powers together "forever against all other powers." It was the first alliance treaty for the fledgling U.S. government and the last until the 1949 NATO pact.
		The American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Star and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.
		As part of a British campaign against settlers in the frontier, nearly 400 American settlers, including women and children, were killed at an outpost called Wintermoot's Fort after they were drawn out of the protection of the fort and ambushed.
	www.decades.com /Timeline/n/2461.htm (360 words)

	MDSSAR Remembers French Revolutionary Soldiers
		Vergennes saw the American War for Independence as a way to restore the balance of power in Europe and to avenge the humiliation suffered at British hands during the Seven Years War (1754-1763).
		The French navy transported reinforcements to the southern American army under the Marquis de Lafayette, fought off a British fleet, and protected Generals Washington and Rochambeau’s march to Virginia.
		France signed preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain on January 20, 1783, which were followed by a formal peace of Paris signed on September 3, 1783.
	www.sar.org /mdssar/mdssar_france.html (795 words)

	American Revolutionary War
		The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, [1] was a war between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies, who declared...
		Similar to the American Revolution Home Page, Ron McGranahan is almost finished creating a most extensive and historically accurate website on the American Civil War.
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	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/American_Revolutionary_War (330 words)

	The American Revolutionary War - History for Kids!
		In 1763 AD England won the French and Indian War against France (which had been fought mainly in North America), and so the English-speaking settlers on the East Coast could stop worrying that they were about to be taken over by France.
		To show that they meant it, in 1773 they threw a lot of tea on an English ship overboard, into the ocean - this is called the "Boston Tea Party." Women proudly spun and wove their own cloth, though they had not done it for a long time.
		The Iroquois, under their leader Joseph Brant, and the Cherokee decided to help England with the war because they thought the English would stop settlers from moving into their land.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/northamerica/after1500/history/revolution.htm (579 words)

	NER- W-R site
		The study identifies alternative management options to preserve and interpret this important part of our heritage. At the time of distribution, the NPS requested public comments on the study. These comments have been addressed and an errata to the study has been completed.
		A French fleet under the command of Admiral De Grasse blocked the Chesapeake Bay to either reinforcement from New York or sea escape from Yorktown.
		On October 19, 1781, after three weeks of siege, General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington, marking Yorktown as one of the most decisive American victories in the War for Independence.
	www.nps.gov /boso/w-r (451 words)

	Revolutionary War
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		A virtual marching tour with a quick history of the war, overview of events leading to the campaign, and chronicles the events as they happen.
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	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Revolutionary_War (326 words)

	Revolutionary Period (1764-1789)
		Tensions such as these eventually led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
		A year earlier, the War of Independence, also known as the American Revolution, began.
		When the British finally surrendered on October 19, 1781, Americans were officially independent of Britain and set about establishing their own government.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut (216 words)

	The American Revolutionary War and Children's Literature
		In order to understand some of the feelings the American Colonists might have had in the time preceding the Revolution, ask another group of students (preferably a distant one that knows nothing about your situation) to make up rules by which your classroom must operate.
		Many of the British and Loyalists thought it was hypocritical for Patriots to ally themselves with France because it was also a monarchy and perhaps a worse one.
		Some believe, in hindsight, that the upper classes and intellectual elite liked the idea of becoming independent because they thought they would be more powerful in the new government and that the Revolution would sidetrack the political unrest that was occurring among the poor and the slaves.
	www.carolhurst.com /subjects/ushistory/revolution.html (1218 words)

	American History and World History
		Contact US American History as well as World History is what you find at History's home on the web.
		We have complete time lines of major events in American History as well as World History.We have special sections on diverse subjects ranging from Presidential Elections to Naval History.
		Multieducator has released a DVDROM with all of our American History Programs on it.
	www.historycentral.com (256 words)

	FRANCE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
		The Complete Series on DVD and Companion Book now available at Special Prices.
		230 Books Published by the Scholar's Bookshelf on The American Revolutionary War, Colonial Wars of New England, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, American Civl War, British Naval History and World War I. All titles are reprinted from long out of print books from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Reprint of the original 1911 Houghton Mifflin publication.
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