Revolutionary Tribunal

“All the vanguard members of the revolutionary generation developed a keen sense of their historical significance while they were still making history on which their reputations would rest” (Ellis 18). Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a historical non-fiction novel written by the accredited historian Joseph J. Ellis. Founding Brothers is about the founding fathers of the United States (Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, and Adams) and how they formed the…

Reasons Which Encouraged Congress to Generate New American Empire In fact, Declaration of Independence was accepted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1886 and declared the division of the Thirteen American Colonies from the British Empire and constituted as an independent nation, the United States of America. It was the result of a various political, social and intellective alterations in American society. Moreover, between 1763 and 1776, majority of colonists felt unjustly taxed, over…

The American spies of the Revolutionary War, also known as the Culper Spy Ring, changed the course of history, helped save America and shaped the future of military intelligence as it is known today. In the summer of 1776, the future of America’s colonies was unclear, would America continue to be under British rule or gain independence. The first artillery fire was in Boston, but fear and mistrust were spreading throughout all thirteen colonies. After the continental army defeated the Regulars…

accuracy has its ups, and definitely has its downs. Many inaccuracies occur, such as lack of loyalists, freedom of slaves, and types of crimes committed by the British. This film should not be taken to be a completely accurate view of the American Revolutionary war, and…

Revolution was not conservative at all; on the contrary: it was as radical and as revolutionary as any in history.” His claim is very…

After colonial merchants signed on an agreement to not accept any imported British goods until the Stamp Act was repealed, a group of colonial women, called the Daughters of Liberty, supported revolutionary principles of liberty. The Daughters of Liberty were established in 1765 during the restrictions and taxations of the Stamp Act of 1765. This group of influential women organized local boycotts against cloth and tea importations from Britain. As…

The Ever-changing Role of Women in History Had Martin Luther not dared to question the Catholic Church when he nailed The Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517, had King Henry VIII not been so set on a divorce in 1533, had the Pamphlet Wars during the turn of the 17th century not taken place, the life of women in the New World in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries may have been very different. These central characters, and so many others, set the stage for a revolution.…

The American Revolutionary War of 1775 also known as The War for America in Chapter 7 of “The American Promise” was a war between England and settlers of the thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. The war was the result of the political American Revolution which was triggered by the prosperous goods and natural resources of the territories. In 1775 the colonists overthrew British rule by seizing control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, which obviously wasn’t…

In historical book Redcoats and Rebels, Christopher Hibbert takes a well-known story of the American Revolution, which is mostly told as a heroic story from the American perspective, and retells it from a perspective of British loyalists incorporating a lot of information from various sources. Although the book “might be useful to students of history as an introduction to historical works the author used for writing it, which are included in bibliography” (p xi), Mr. Hibbert wanted it to be…

The United States went to war against Great Britain, and eventually signed a treaty that ended the Revolutionary War on September 2, 1783. “It was not war- it was murder” (Ferling 25) The road to freedom wasn 't so easy, and it was for certain bloody, with death tolls pushing numbers close to 620,000. During the beginnings of the war, and even during the actual war, the United States were scrambling to change the ideology of the people against Britain and to accept the idea of Independence, and…