American Revolution

The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.

Starting in 1765, members of American colonial society rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them without colonial representatives in the government. During the following decade, protests by colonists—known as Patriots—continued to escalate, as in the Boston Tea Party in 1773 during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea from the Parliament-controlled and favored East India Company. The British responded by imposing punitive laws—the Coercive Acts—on Massachusetts in 1774, following which Patriots in the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts. In late 1774 the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain, while other colonists, known as Loyalists, preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown.

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Shadrach Bond DAR members celebrate Golden Thirteen, bats and Martha Gellhorn

The Hawk Eye 03 Apr 2025
The March 21 meeting of the Shadrach Bond Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) was held in the Hancock County Historical Society Library, in the Kibbe Museum ... Members who have more than one ancestor who served in the American Revolution submit “supplemental” applications to recognize the service of those men or women....
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Ulster lawmakers mull sister relationship with Chernivtsi region in Ukraine

Daily Freeman 03 Apr 2025
KINGSTON, N.Y ... Related Articles ... In support of the partnership, the resolution states that the United States and Ukraine “share a history of fighting for independence and sovereignty” and that Ulster County, in particular, “played a historic role” in that fight during the American Revolution ... .......
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Lennox: 250 years after independence, will America again have a king?

Detroit news 03 Apr 2025
Two hundred and fifty years after the shot heard around the world ignited a revolution that led to American independence, the United States may once again find itself with a British king ... Regardless, all have significant historical, cultural and economic links to Britain ... The role is equivalent to that of chairman of the board in American parlance....
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The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine), by Chris Hedges

The Unz Review 03 Apr 2025
... New Deal in a post-world war to American state and so I think the utopian rebranding I think depended on people being ignorant of actually what underlies the internet what underlies this computer personal computer revolution and what underlies it is American capitalism, right?....
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The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report

Scheerpost 03 Apr 2025
... New Deal in a post-world war to American state and so I think the utopian rebranding I think depended on people being ignorant of actually what underlies the internet what underlies this computer personal computer revolution and what underlies it is American capitalism, right?....
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250th anniversary of Battle of Lexington and Concord is this year. How to see reenactment

Taunton Daily Gazette 02 Apr 2025
National Park Service, National Archives collab on American Revolution project. The National Park Service and National Archives are working together on transcribing the pension records of over 80,000 veterans from the American Revolution ... The 250th Anniversary of the American ......
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St. Charles County Celebrates 250th Anniversary of Start of American Revolution (St Charles County, MO)

Public Technologies 02 Apr 2025
Koechig says there are dozens of known descendants of American Revolutionary War veterans living in St ... There are about 180 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and about 110 members of the Sons of the American Revolution living in the county, Koechig says....
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8 fun things to do in Lake County this weekend (and a look ahead)

Daily Commercial 02 Apr 2025
info@baystreetplayers.orgLast chance to see 'American Revolution Experience' at WT Bland Library ... Concluding this Saturday, April 5, a traveling pop-up exhibition presented by the American Battlefield Trust with the help of the Daughters of the American Revolution, "The American Revolution Experience," is leaving soon from the W.T....
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Area schools receive history books from DAR

The Norman Transcript 02 Apr 2025
In honor of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary, ......
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Olive Prindle DAR Chapter Honors Student Essay Winners

Constitution-Tribune 02 Apr 2025
CHILLICOTHE – On March 10, 2025, the Olive Prindle ......

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