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Painting: "Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge," by John Dunsmore, 1907 Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons, in pubic domain This new blog is about the American Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783. I hope to have many interesting stories about the men and women who lived at that time and helped to create the United States of America. Too often we take for granted that America would simply come into being. That was not the case. The revolution began as a difficult philosophical and political debate during the Age of Enlightenment (also called the Age of Reason), where traditional concepts like those from organized religion and the Divine Right of Kings were challenged by intellectual thought, science, and Reason. From philosophy, the Revolution turned to physical protests and eventually to war. Thousands of men, and women, died in this conflict -- the first in the history of the United States and its most important war. Why was this war America's most important war? Quite simply because had the Americans under George Washington lost this war, there would not be a United States of America today. Please join us for this fascinating story. Thank you. Adrian McGrath, Editor and Publisher of AmericanRevolutionJournal.com |
AmericanRevolutionJournal.com
AmericanRevolutionJournal.com is a history blog about the war for American Independence, 1775 to 1783
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
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