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
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
Loyalists left during the revolutionary war in support of the British empire, African Americans fled slavery on the underground railroad and pioneers ventured north in search of soil-rich land.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2017
Second, when Washington spoke about the need for national unity in 1796, his message resonated with all the still-fresh memories of his conduct during the revolutionary war.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
