revolutionary war
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He was a long way from revolutionary war.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024
What is less clear to those on the outside is why a document written nearly 250 years ago in response to a revolutionary war still has such resonance in 2022.
From BBC ● May 25, 2022
While recruiting, Cornford had depicted the conflict as a dusty, lazy revolutionary war – much as people imagined the Mexican revolution that ended in 1920 – rather than the sophisticated scientific destruction it soon became.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2020
An unnamed ironist had appropriated a quotation from Mao about revolutionary war as “an antitoxin” that “eliminates the enemy’s poison” and offered it as a rebuke of the solemnity of Communist propaganda.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
