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British officials in the American Revolution (1 C, 21 P) C. Continental Congressmen (13 C, 2 P) D. ... Pages in category "Political leaders of the American Revolution"
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately successful war for independence (the American Revolutionary War) against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The Politics of Command in the American Revolution. Syracuse University Press. Shelton, Hal (1994). General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution. New York University Press. Straubel, Rolf (2012). "Er möchte nur wißen, daß die Armée mir gehöret." Friedrich II. und seine Offiziere. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. Taafe, Stephen R ...
Richard Allen, African-American bishop, founder of the Free African Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church [90] Crispus Attucks, believed to be of Native American and African descent, was the first of five persons killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770, and thus the first to die in the American Revolution. [91]
The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy, (1999) online version; Middlekauff, Robert; The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2005) online version Archived May 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution.
The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0742520691. Baack, Ben. "Forging a nation state: the Continental Congress and the financing of the War of American Independence." Economic History Review (2001) 54#4 pp: 639–656 ...
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. [1] He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congress , having served as the second president of the Second Continental Congress and the seventh ...