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Charles Carroll (1703–1783) - whose son, also called Charles Carroll, would later sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776 - wagered that his horse would win in a 3-mile race. Carroll's rival was Dungannon , owned by the tobacco planter and horse breeder George Hume Steuart who imported the thoroughbred from England.
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution ultimately culminated in the American Revolutionary War , which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord , on April 19, 1775.
May 10–24 – American Revolutionary War: Chesapeake raid. June 1 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for malfeasance in his treatment of government property. June 16 – American Revolutionary War: In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England. [citation needed]
1776–1789 American Revolution: 1765–1783 Confederation period: 1783–1788: 1789–1815 Federalist Era: 1788–1801 Jeffersonian Era: 1801–1817: 1815–1849 Era of Good Feelings: 1817–1825 Jacksonian Era: 1825–1849: 1849–1865 Civil War Era: 1849–1865: 1865–1917 Reconstruction Era: 1865–1877
John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (born 1723) October 27 – John Cook, farmer, President of Delaware (born 1730) November 10 – Richard Caswell, major general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman and Governor of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 & 1785 to 1787) (born 1729)
July 6 – American Revolution – Battle of Green Spring July 9–24 – American Revolution – Francisco's Fight July 29 – American Revolution – Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe: A Tory force under David Fanning attacks Phillip Alston's smaller force of Whigs at Alston's home in Cumberland County, North Carolina (in present-day Moore County, North Carolina).
May 26 – A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut, to celebrate the end of the American Revolution. June 20 – Continental Army soldiers mob Independence Hall, Philadelphia, demanding back pay from the Congress of the Confederation in the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. Congress flees to New Jersey.