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Central New York's Military Tract townships. Map from the original by Simeon De Witt. The Military Tract of Central New York, also called the New Military Tract, [1] consisted of nearly two million acres (8,100 km 2) of bounty land set aside in Central New York to compensate New York's soldiers after their participation in the Revolutionary War.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution.. The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two "romantic nationalist" revolutions, the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution in France along with rebellions in Congress Poland, Italian states, Portugal and ...
A 1796 map showing the strategies of the opposing armies at the Battle of White Plains during which Harcourt commanded the 16th Light Dragoons. Field Marshal William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt, GCB (20 March 1743 – 17 June 1830) was a British nobleman and British Army officer.
1775–1783: American Revolutionary War: an armed struggle for secession from the British Empire by the Thirteen Colonies that would subsequently become the United States. 1776–1777 : Cherokee War of 1776 : a series of armed conflicts when the Cherokee fought to prevent the encroachment of American settlers into eastern Tennessee and eastern ...
The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783.
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
too small to map: December 29, 1934 Kingman Reef was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Navy. [384] no change to map: November 15, 1935 The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands was dissolved and replaced with the Commonwealth of the Philippines. [401] [402] Pacific Ocean: March 16, 1936