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)

Ron Chernow
The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide by gentlemanly rules of engagement. One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen 'conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, they immediately retreat. What an unfair method of carrying on a war! ...more
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

Kenneth Roberts
Approaching us through a haze of dust that overhung the road was a long column of men - a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step, so that it had the look of a gigantic centipede whose feet hurt.
Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

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