Religion and Revolution
Although the American War for Independence (1775–1783) was not a war of religion, religion played a significant though often subtle role in the events leading to that co...
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Wartime Proclamations
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
The Olive Branch Petition
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress July 1775; excerpted from Documents of American His...
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Although the American colonists only protested English control in the late 1760s, the seriousness of the protests increased dramatically in 1770. From 1770 onwards, newspaper articles and cartoons...
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It has been asked many times through the years, were the American colonies justified in waging war with England? There is a clear argument for the affirmative, that the colonists had suffered su...
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The Battle of Saratoga is one of the many important battles remembered in both American and world history. After the surrender of Burgoyne as Saratoga on October 17, 1777 France was persuaded into j...
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Due to harsh rules, law acts and actions on Britain's part, the American
colonists felt violated and angered. The king kept enforcing more regulations on the
colonists, tightening their freedom. T...
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Was the American Victory Really a David vs. Goliath Story?
Historians may argue that the British lost the war more than the Colonists won it. Simply looking at the statistics of the British three to...
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Religion and Revolution
Wartime Proclamations
