revolutionary war

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George Washington’s vision of the American West fueled his patriotic fervor in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming,” about the Revolutionary War, is beautifully written and started off with a bang, but soon the accounts of battles, with their obligatory suffering and death, became too much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

That hasn’t stopped Americans from pushing back against the certainty of taxes—death is another matter—since the cry of “no taxation without representation” helped spark the Revolutionary War.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Balfe: And the Revolutionary War has been circling them for a very long time.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan