http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/americanrevolution/ en-us Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:34:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068333/posts Following the withdrawal of the British army from Boston on 17th March 1776, Washington in the expectation that Howe would attack New York which was held for the Congress marched much of his army south to that city. In fact the British had sailed north to Halifax in Nova Scotia. It was not until the summer of 1776 that Howe launched his attack on New York. The British fleet reached the entrance to the Hudson River on 29th June 1776 and Howe landed on Staten Island on 3rd July. The Congress declared independence the next day. Reinforcements began to arrive... BritishBattles.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068333/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:34:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043615/posts Very rarely a well written scholarly book directed to the general reader not only corrects profound misperceptions of historical persons and events but also shows the true origin of a basic part of human social action. Such a book is Defending the Declaration by Gary T. Amos.1 This excellent book belongs in the library of every Christian church, college, school, history scholar and teacher, pastor, attorney, and family especially when home schooling. It should be required collateral reading in American history courses (high school and college) dealing with the origins of America. Last but not least it makes a wonderful... CSSHS Quarterly Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043615/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042919/posts One signed all three bulwarks of the Republic. The other was second only to James Madison as the architect of the Constitution. Robert Morris and James Wilson were two of the most important, yet least publicized, of the Founding Fathers. Why has Philadelphia not commemorated some of its most important citizens? Wilson was according to American Heritage magazine, one of the most underrated Americans in history. Historian Gary Wills wrote, "A signer of the Declaration, a principal drafter of the Federal Constitution, the principal ratifier, and the profoundest theorist of it, Wilson is the least known of the Founding Fathers."... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042919/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024639/posts I've been doing some genealogical research and have traced a couple branches of my family through the Civil War, the Texas War of Independence, and the Revolutionary War. I've also been given the opportunity via some co-workers to join the Sons of the Republic of Texas. I've checked into it, but have also found other historical societies such as the Sons of the Confederacy, and the Sons of the American Revolution. Does anyone out there have any info on these groups as to what it's like to be involved in these groups, and which ones are worth joining? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2024639/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 04:46:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927390/posts NEW YORK - "Lafayette, we are here." So said an aide to "Black Jack" Pershing when the American general and his troops reached France in 1917, joining the Allies' war against Germany. It was payback for the service rendered by the Marquis de Lafayette to the fledgling United States in its war for independence 140 years earlier. But "le temps marche," as the French say — time marches on. Memories fade. And while hundreds of American counties, cities, squares, streets and schools bear the name Lafayette, how many people today could identify the Revolutionary War hero? "Not many," says Richard... AP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927390/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010744/posts Based on David McCullough's 2001 best-selling book, "John Adams," the HBO 7-part mini-series starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams is as important for the message that it sends as it is for the history it conveys. Beginning with young attorney Adams's defense of the British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre (for whom he won an acquittal), the story follows the political career and personal life of Adams as he becomes a key member of the Continental Congress, editor/co-drafter of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France and England, vice president, then president.... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010744/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 17:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2003439/posts "Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year." poetry.eserver.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2003439/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:47:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990402/posts This day in history...VIDEO Primetime Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990402/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1986967/posts Sorry for the vanity - but I can't think of a better resource than FR regarding this topic. I don't trust Amazonian recommendations. Please, if you can, recommend the best book/s detailing the American Revolution. Not just the battles, but the politics leading up to the war, the writing of the Declaration of Ind., who the signers were ...etc. I'd appreciate any input. Thanks for your time. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1986967/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985964/posts Five years into their war to retain control of America, the British thought they were winning. As Piers Mackesy relates in his brilliant, classic history of the American Revolution, The War for America, 1775-1783, the British cabinet believed the rebel cause was disintegrating by 1780. One of the best American generals, Benedict Arnold, had changed sides. Rebel finances were weak. Morale in George Washington's army appeared to be plummeting, and there was talk of mutiny in the rebel camp. The British army had landed in the South and was chewing up American forces there. The intervention of the French on... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985964/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937217/posts A gold and enamel medal that once belonged to the American Revolutionary hero the Marquis de Lafayette goes on auction here Tuesday, and could fetch as much as 10 million dollars, experts said. The medal being sold by Lafayette's descendants was given to the Frenchman in 1824 by relatives of America's first US President George Washington, when Lafayette was 67 years old. The gift was made a quarter-century after the death in 1799 of Washington, who as a general led US troops to victory in their battle for independence against Britain. -snip- Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937217/posts#comment Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:10:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1934309/posts ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY:On Dec. 3, 1756, Aaron Ogden was born in Elizabethtown, the son of a legislator who would rise to a public service career of his own.Ogden, who served in the military during the American Revolution and the undeclared war against France, grew into a skilled orator and debater. He served in Congress from 1801 to 1803 and was elected governor of New Jersey in 1812. Ogden, who also had business interests in steamboat machinery, later became embroiled in a Supreme Court case concerning the monopoly of steamboat service in New York waters. Drained of his... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1934309/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:23:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1929369/posts  Andrew Wnukowski of Hillside checks his redcoat costume in the glint of a car window. About 5,000 British troops came ashore at Closter Dock in Alpine on Nov. 20, 1776, setting the stage for the redcoats to capture Fort Lee from the upstart American revolutionaries later in the day.   On Saturday, four "soldiers" with red coats, muskets and goatskin backpacks -- along with a dozen or so intrepid "civilians" -- re-created the climb up the Palisades toward the site named after Gen. Charles Lee, who would be court-martialed two years later for disobeying Gen. George Washington's orders during the... the record http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1929369/posts#comment Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884561/posts The way Jerry Hurwitz sees it, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand the significance of the hal lowed ground on which a pivotal Revolutionary War Battle of Princeton was fought 230 years ago. Part of the battle on Jan. 3, 1777, was waged on 22 acres of gently sloping farmland now owned by the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute -- an independent, private research institution that counted physicist Albert Ein stein among its faculty -- is adja cent to the 85-acre Princeton Battlefield State Park. But that section of the battlefield was never incorporated into the state park,... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884561/posts#comment Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930126/posts PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a small survey boat, maritime archaeologist J. Lee Cox Jr. was checking the bottom of the Delaware River at the Sunoco Logistics pier in South Philadelphia when he got a hit on the side-scan sonar. A pipe? A log? A hazard to the oil tankers docking nearby? No one was sure until a diver was sent down weeks later and found a strange pointed object buried in the muck about 40 feet down. Earlier this month, Cox identified it as the business end of a cheval-de-frise, an iron-tipped log once embedded in the river, along with... AP via pennlive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930126/posts#comment Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1883734/posts On March 15, 1781, American forces inflicted heavy losses on the British Army at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. The redcoats had seemed invincible only a few months before. Winter clouds scudded over New Windsor, New York, some 50 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan, where Gen. George Washington was headquartered. With trees barren and snow on the ground that January 1781, it was a "dreary station," as Washington put it. The commander in chief's mood was as bleak as the landscape. Six long years into the War of Independence, his army, he admitted to Lt. Col. John Laurens,... The Smithsonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1883734/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1870090/posts IN MY OPINION One of the first lessons you learn when studying history is that history books are usually written by the side that wins the war. After the Civil War, the South's role in the American Revolution was relegated to practically a footnote. My 10th-grade U.S. history book basically had two paragraphs about the South's role -- the British took Charleston, there were lots of backwoods skirmishes in the Carolinas at places such as Kings Mountain and Cowpens, and the British surrendered at Yorktown. The implication was that the only battles of consequence took place within 200 miles of... Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1870090/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860760/posts In 1975 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp honoring a man named Haym Salomon for his contribution to the cause of the American Revolution. This stamp was uniquely printed on the front and the back. On the glue side of the stamp, the following words were printed in pale, green ink: "Financial Hero – Businessman and broker Haym Salomon was responsible for raising most of the money needed to finance the American Revolution and later to save the new nation from collapse." I personally have one of these stamps. Historians who have studied the story of Salomon all... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860760/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:16:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860646/posts "Let me get this straight, Gen. Washington: You want us, the representatives of the Second Continental Congress, to fund a sneak attack on British troops starting on Christmas?" "That is correct, sir. After we declared our independence from King George, he was most unhappy. He ordered his army to attack us. The Brits have made tremendous gains on our homeland." "Gains, Washington?" "Sir, whereas our Continental Army is something of a motley crew, the Brits are well-trained and well-funded. Their forces include Hessian mercenaries, professional fighters who are most skilled at the art of war." "Your point, Washington?" "The Brits... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860646/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:40:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860019/posts In 1776 Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton seemed to be precisely the kind of military officer the American military needed to win the Revolution. He was a veteran of the French and Indian War two decades earlier. He proved to be a supreme leader of men in combat outside Boston. And he was tapped by Gen. George Washington to start a new elite military unit--Knowlton's Rangers--that was capable of operating behind enemy lines. OpinionJournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860019/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jul 2007 04:14:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858980/posts The Fourth of July is a great opportunity to renew our dedication to the principles of liberty and equality enshrined in what Thomas Jefferson called "the declaratory charter of our rights."As a practical matter, the Declaration of Independence publicly announced to the world the unanimous decision of the American colonies to declare themselves free and independent states, absolved from any allegiance to Great Britain. But its greater meaning—then as well as now—is as a statement of the conditions of legitimate political authority and the proper ends of government, and its proclamation of a new ground of political rule in... Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858980/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857725/posts The Americans will be taking to the high seas off the Yorkshire coast this summer in search of their nautical "Holy Grail". Martin Hickes reports on an expensive obsession. THIS August, a flotilla of American scientists will mount a £175,000 expedition off Flamborough Head in search of a wreck, more than 200 years after it sank. Two US teams will plunge into the North Sea in search of the flagship of a Scottish captain, known to the Brits as little more than a pirate, but to the Americans as a hero of the American Revolution and the "Father of the... Yorkshire Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857725/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:59:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851640/posts 1775 : The Battle of Bunker Hill During the American Revolution, British General William Howe lands his troops on the Charlestown peninsula overlooking Boston and leads them against Breed's Hill, a fortified American position just below Bunker Hill. As the British advanced in columns against the Americans, Patriot General William Prescott reportedly told his men, "Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" When the Redcoats were within 40 yards, the Americans let loose with a lethal barrage of musket fire, cutting down nearly 100 enemy troops and throwing the British into retreat. After reforming... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851640/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:34:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820087/posts Americans revere a great number of dates that hold special significance for their culture and history. The Fourth of July, Veterans Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. — a quick glance through any calendar provides numerous other examples. Yet the one day of most importance, to both the nation and its culture, is the one that is conspicuously absent from any mention of notable historical dates. No parades honor the fallen; no speeches in Congress remind us of their deeds; no wreaths are laid; no moments of silence requested. On this sacred date no president will stand on... Future of Freedom Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820087/posts#comment Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:40:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798856/posts A monument and historical marker were dedicated today at Port Canaveral, Florida, commemorating The Last Naval Battle of the American Revolution From the historical marker, dedicated on March 10, 2007: The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War took place off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. The fight began when three British ships sighted two Continental Navy ships, the Alliance commanded by Captain John Barry and the Duc De Lauzun commanded by Captain John Green sailing northward along the coast of Florida. The Alliance, a 36-gun frigate, and the Duc De Lauzun, a 20-gun ship,... FreeRepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798856/posts#comment Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:54:23 GMT