American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War started in April 1775 between British military based in Boston, Massachusetts and American colonial militia. While the conflict initially started as a political dispute between the British national government and residents of the American colonies over taxes, the American Continental Congress declared the colonies to be an independent nation in July 1776.

Eventually, the war also included France, Spain, and Holland on the side of the U.S. Land combat in North American mostly ended after the Franco-American victory at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781. However
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1776
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
John Adams
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Johnny Tremain
Alexander Hamilton
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Washington: A Life
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Washington's Crossing
Rise to Rebellion (The American Revolutionary War, #1)
A Girl Called Samson
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Forge (Seeds of America, #2)

Kenneth Roberts
War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts! ...more
Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

Melissa de la Cruz
This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn’t it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!
Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza

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