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The American Crisis, or simply The Crisis, [1] is a pamphlet series by eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. [2] Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 1776 and 1777, with three additional pamphlets released between 1777 and 1783. [3]
[2] [3] He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the colonial era patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. [4] His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights. [5]
1776 was a leap year ... free and independent states." ... publishes the first in the series of pamphlets on The American Crisis in The Pennsylvania Journal, ...
On December 19, 1776, just a week prior to Washington's covert crossing of the Delaware River, the morale of the Continental Army was lifted by the publication of The American Crisis, a pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense. [12] In The American Crisis, Paine wrote the famed phrase:
In 1776, George Washington read Paine's words, from a pamphlet called "The American Crisis," to his troops before a major victory in Trenton, New Jersey. Story continues after gallery.
December 14 – American Revolution: Ambush of Geary; December 19 – American Revolution: Thomas Paine, living with Washington's troops, publishes the first in the series of pamphlets on The American Crisis in The Pennsylvania Journal, opening with the stirring phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls." December 21
A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico said it did not create flyers urging migrants to vote for President Joe Biden that were filmed at its shelter in a viral video that sparked a ...
The blockade was lifted and American merchants were free to trade with any nation anywhere in the world. ... was a crisis from 1776 to ... his pamphlet Common Sense ...