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Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York

Government and Civics

Historian Richard Ketchum is the author of the classic studies Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill ; The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton ; and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War . In...

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The Origins of the French Revolution: American Influence, Domestic Discontent

World History

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History Now Issue

Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam

#43 Fall 2015

Lesson Plan

Spain and the American Revolution: Contributions to the Patriot Cause

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

About This Lesson Plan Unit The five lessons in this unit explore Spain’s contributions to the American Revolution. Students will read and examine correspondence, a royal order, a map, and a combat diary. You will assess the...

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Autograph letter signed

to Friedrich Von Steuben re: financing American Revolution [in French]

1780/04/08

Beaumarchais, Pierre A.C., fl. 1780

"As for what concerns me, that which prevents you from gaily beating the English. Money? Soon I will take it, when it will come; but grace troubles you by means, I am much more curious about our laurels..."

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