Portal:American Revolution
This page links to documents of historical importance related to the American Revolution and the subsequent war.
Pre-war escalation
[edit]- Portal:Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774
- Responses by the First Continental Congress in 1774
- Conciliatory Resolution passed by the British Parliament in 1775
- Responses by the Second Continental Congress in 1775
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
- Olive Branch Petition (July 8, 1775)
- Halifax Resolves (1776)
- Essays Upon The Making Of Salt-Petre And Gun-Powder (1776)
Revolutionary War
[edit]- Lee Resolution and its original copy
- Declaration of Independence & "Original Rough Draught" of the Declaration of Independence
- Treaty of Paris (1783), in which the United Kingdom recognizes the United States
- The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the revolutionary war
- The German Element in the War of American Independence
- The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier
Analysis
[edit]- "The American Revolution", in Lectures on Modern History by John Acton (1906)
- "Sovereignty in the American Revolution", in The American Historical Review by Claude H. Van Tyne (1907)
- History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren (1805)
- "The Sentiments of an American Woman", by Esther De Berdt Reed (1780)
- Timeline of the American Revolution by the Valley Forge National Historical Park division, United States National Park Service (2006)
Literature and poetry
[edit]- The Partisan by William Gilmore Simms (1835)
- "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- "The American Rebellion" by Rudyard Kipling (1911)