the American Revolution

noun

: the war of 1775–83 in which 13 British colonies in North America broke free from British rule and became the United States of America

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If time allows, add Museum of the American Revolution (Washington’s original field tent is the star), the Betsy Ross House, where the famed seamstress designed the American flag, and cobblestoned Elfreth’s Alley, the nation’s oldest continuously inhabited residential street, to your agenda. Regan Stephens, AFAR Media, 14 Oct. 2025 Local officials aware of that history have expressed a desire to transfer a parcel of lakeshore land back to the Onondagas, one of the native peoples who populated and governed much of upstate New York and parts of Canada before the American Revolution. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025 Her book is an act not only of recovery, but of world building, restoring the connections between home and history that made the American Revolution. Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025 That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution from a complicated Colonial fracas into a titanic struggle for the soul of liberty itself. Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the American Revolution

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