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unusual facts about the American Revolution



Bartimaeus Sequence

The novels are set in London in an alternate history, though many countries, cities, events, and people are from actual history (such as Prague, Solomon, the Holy Roman Empire, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, the American Revolution, etc.).


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1781 in the United States

October 19 – American Revolution: Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolution.

American Bicentennial Series

Bicentennial Minutes, a series of short educational American television segments commemorating the bicentennial of the American Revolution

American Revolution Statuary

In accordance with Executive Order 11593, by President Richard Nixon, the National Park Service surveyed, and registered Statuary of people of the American Revolution, in Washington, D.C. to aid in their preservation.

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

She was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, with whom she had a large correspondence having become acquainted with him during and after his stay in Paris during the American Revolution.

Army National Guard and Active Regular Army Units with Colonial Roots

The next action of the 1st Company of Artillery was in the Miami Campaign (1790−1795), an Indian War that was an addendum to the American Revolution.

Charles Skelton

Skelton's uncle Abraham Doan was a member of the infamous Doan Outlaws, and was executed for his role as a Tory during the American Revolution.

Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Connellsville was officially founded as a township in 1793 then as a borough on March 1, 1806 by Zachariah Connell, a militia captain during the American Revolution.

Corn Stalk

Cornstalk, a Shawnee Indian chief during the American Revolution (1720–1777)

Demerara

In 1781, the American revolution induced the Dutch Republic to join with the Bourbon side against the British, a large fleet under Admiral Lord Rodney's command was sent to the West Indies, and after having made some seizures in the Caribbean Islands, a squadron was detached to take possession of the colonies of Essequebo and Demerara, which was accomplished without much difficulty.

Edward Piszek

He bought the Philadelphia house where Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Polish statesman who aided the American Revolution, once lived, restored it, and donated it to the National Park Service.

George Washington and slavery

According to Wiencek, his thoughts on slavery may have also been influenced by the rhetoric of the American Revolution, the example of the thousands of blacks who enlisted in the army to fight for independence, the anti-slavery sentiments of his idealistic aide John Laurens, and his knowledge of the ability of the enslaved black poet Phillis Wheatley, who in 1775 wrote a poem in his honor.

Gnadenhutten massacre

During the American Revolution, the Munsee- and Unami-speaking Lenni Lenape (also called Delaware) bands of the Ohio Country were deeply divided over which side, if any, to take in the conflict.

Great Wagon Road

The English, Anglo-Scottish, and Scots-Irish from the Anglo-Scottish border area were the largest group of settlers from the British Isles before the American Revolution.

Haussegger

Nicholas Haussegger (died 1786), American officer who defected to the British during the American Revolution

Hélie de Noailles

De Noailles chaired the French Sons of the American Revolution, Société française des Fils de la Révolution Américaine, and since 2001, he has been mayor of the commune of Épinay-Champlâtreux, succeeding his father, who was mayor from 1932 to 2001.

James Claypoole

He was father-in-law to both the miniature portraitist James Peale and Col. Timothy Matlack (1730-1829), a Free Quaker, merchant, surveyor, architect, statesman, and patriot in the American Revolution.

Jean-Olivier Briand

Briand was a notable opponent of the American revolution and served as a useful ally to the British administration under Guy Carleton.

Jessica Warner

Her books include Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason and John the Painter: Terrorist of the American Revolution.

Joseph Hodgkins

The letters have since been featured in several works of non-fiction including Library of America's The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence , David McCullough's 1776, and Ray Raphael's A People's History of the American Revolution.

Kennetcook

After the American Revolution, the village was part of the Douglas Township, which was named after Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet.

Liberty!

The American Revolution is a six-hour documentary miniseries about the Revolutionary War, and the instigating factors, that brought about the United States' independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Lybster

However, during the American Revolution, following some victories in the Ohio and Illinois territories, Patrick Sinclair felt it was necessary to move Fort Michilimackinac from its exposed location on the northernmost point of the lower peninsula of Michigan to Mackinac Island.

Mary Draper

Her story is told in Elizabeth F. Ellet's The Women of the American Revolution (1848).

Matlack

Timothy Matlack (c.1730-1829), merchant, surveyor, architect, statesman and patriot in the American Revolution

O. C. Hackett

His father was John Hackett, and his grandfather was noted Kentucky frontiersman and militiaman of the American Revolution, Peter Hackett.

Ohio Country

Colonists in the Thirteen Colonies considered this one of the Intolerable Acts passed by Parliament, without their consent, and contributing to the American Revolution.

Ormiston

Col. James Burd, hero of the French and Indian War and local Pennsylvania leader in the leadup to the American Revolution

Pennsylvania Dutch

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exemption from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

Pierre Douville

He joined the French Navy and lived in Rhode Island during the American Revolution serving as French military intelligence officer who provided General George Washington with British ship and troop movements.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

1992: Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)

Rhode Island Line

Carrington, Henry B. Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Promontory Press (Reprint Edition. Originally Published, 1877).

Ringwood State Park

During the American Revolution, Robert Erskine managed ironmaking operations from Ringwood, and became George Washington's first geographer and Surveyor-General, producing maps for the Continental army; Washington visited the Manor House several times.

Rise to Rebellion

The events of the American Revolution are portrayed through the perspectives of multiple characters, including Sentry Hugh White of the British army, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, George Washington, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, Captain James Hall, Abigail Adams, Paul Revere, Dr. Joseph Warren, and Major John Pitcairn.

Saint Francis University

John A. Nagy- Author on espionage and mutinies of the American Revolution.

Samuel D. Riddle

Miss Riddle, member number 25516 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married Mr. Homer Lee (of Mansfield, Ohio, who founded the Homer Lee Bank Note Company in New York City).

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Hoping to encourage Europe's liberal reformers through the example of the American Revolution, and using American tourists and art students as models and assistants, among them Worthington Whittredge and Andreas Achenbach, Leutze finished the first painting in 1850.

Watercraft rowing

The following year the boat was gifted to an ageing General Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, during his tour of the U.S.

Western Massachusetts

After the American Revolution, a rebellion led by Daniel Shays, a Revolutionary War veteran from East Pelham, culminated in a battle at the National Armory in Springfield.

William Bell Clark

He wrote several biographies of American naval captains, including John Barry (1745-1803), Nicholas Biddle (naval officer), Lambert Wickes, and John Young (naval officer) during the American Revolution, which were published by prominent academic presses, such as the Yale University Press and Louisiana State University Press.

William Schurman

Schurman remained loyal to Britain during the American revolution and, in 1783, immigrated to Tryon on St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island).