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| | American Revolution - War At Sea |
 | | Another of America's new Naval Officers was John Barry, (1745–1803), regarded as one of the most skillful and daring American commanders in the Revolutionary War. | | | This was the first capture in action of a British vessel by a commissioned American warship. | | | This aid could only be brought to American shores by water, and to do it required a sea power to counterbalance that of England. |
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http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/SEA.HTM
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| | The Boston Massacre - Crispus Attucks - African-American History Through the Arts |
| | It also shows clearly that this man was the first black man to fall in the American Revolutionary war. | | | This drawing is a reminder to all Americans that their "Independence" did not come at a free price, but it came by the blood and sweat of brave men like Paul Revere that stood up and spoke about what was really going on. | | | Through research we can conclude that Paul Reveres and John Pufford were both important factors in capturing what really happened in "The Boston Massacre" and that Crispus Attucks was the first black to fall in the American Revolution. |
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http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/african-american/precivil/boston.htm
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| | African American Freedom Fighters: Soldiers for Liberty |
| | During the American Civil War, Douglass was a forceful leader and "urged Lincoln to free the slaves and arm all Negro men." Douglass' own two sons were among the first to serve the Union forces in the Civil War. | | | The war was a bloody one, and it cost the lives of over 38,000 Blacks seeking to be a part of the FREEDOM ON AMERICAN SOIL. | | | Attucks' martyrdom is said to have acted as a catalyst for the American colonists' eventual war for liberty and freedom from British rule. |
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http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaffsfl.htm
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| | Revolution Quotes |
| | Most Americans that are interested in history are interested in the Civil War, which they say defines America. | | | They then proceeded to create the most revolutionary government the world had ever seen. | | | Americans know that we are different from Europeans and the rest of the world, but they do not understand these differences or how they came to be. |
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http://www.geocities.com/vincentpa.geo/patriotic/RevolutionQuotes.html
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| | Chapter 6: The War of 1812 |
| | American strategy had centered on the conquest of Canada and the harassment of British shipping; but the land campaign failed, and during most of the war the Navy was bottled up behind a tight British blockade of the North American coast. | | | American forces were further reduced by the renewal of the war in the west and by an attempt against Montreal. | | | Dearborn had had a good record in the Revolutionary War and had served as Jefferson's Secretary of War. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-06.htm
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| | The New York Review of Books: The World Is Round |
| | Friedman's advocacy of American energy independence illustrates the error of a unidirectional view of history. | | | In this and other countries, American energy independence could well further the advance of radical Islam. | | | In an American setting these may be useful proposals, and it is strange that in the countries that have been most exposed to the disruptive effects of globalization Friedman appears to favor neoliberal policies of the most conventional kind. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18154
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| | Captain Robert Gray |
| | In his early twenties he served in the navy during the Revolutionary War, probably aboard a privateer. | | | Despite the information given him by the American, Vancouver believed that he could not have passed any "safe navigable opening". | | | After the war he continued his career at sea. |
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http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gray.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Vintage Book of War Fiction: Books |
| | Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism by Walter Cronkite | | | Vonnegut wrote the classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five based on his experiences as a prisoner of war viewing the destruction of Dresden by the Allied forces. | | | Indeed, these war stories of soldiers, pilots, sailors, combatants, and civilians of all ages and walks of life are often fictionalized autobiographies, conveying the immediate horrors of war, the emotional damage it causes, and the best and worst in humanity. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400030404?v=glance
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| | Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC |
| | Don Higginbotham, The War of American Independence, 1971 | | | Wilcox, Clinton’s Narrative of The American Rebellion, 1954 | | | Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC General Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion Trail, Swamp Fox Trail, Clarendon County SC Revolutionary History |
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http://web.ftc-i.net/~gcsummers/revolution.htm
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| | FAMILY STUFF |
| | His father was William L. Gray, Scottish-American, of Cambridge, New York, who married into the Mohawks of Akwesasne following his service as an American Revolutionary War soldier, and who became an important interpreter. | | | The legend of John Gray, the fur hunter and Native rights activist and organizer of what may well have been the first labor strikes in the American West, has carried well through the generations. | | | "Gray -- Ross had described him the year before as "a turbulent blackguard, a damned rascal" -- then launched into a denunciation of the policies of HBC [Hudson's Bay Company] in general and the men of the Columbia Department in particular: ". |
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http://www.hunterbear.org/family_stuff.htm
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| | The Revolutionary War Cycle of U.S. History |
| | Wealth of Nations (1776), France declares war on Britain (1778), Spain declares war on England (1779). | | | Foreign Timeline Events: England declares war on Spain in the War of Jenkin's Ear (1739), | | | The Awakeners were the idealist generation of the Revolutionary Cycle. |
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http://www.timepage.org/cyc/revo.html
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| | Popular Songs in American History |
| | The Contemplator's Short History of Women in the Revolutionary War | | | During the era of sailing ships, sea shanties were universal, so many of the work shanteys which were not specifically American in origin or topic, but sung on American ships, are not here and can be found on the Songs of the Sea page. | | | These are songs that are American in subject or origin, or found in American songbooks. |
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http://www.contemplator.com/america
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| | Operations: Southern Theater |
| | Moss, B. "Role of the Scots and Scotch-Irish in the Southern Campaigns in the War of American Independence, 1780-3." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of St. Andrews, 1979. | | | Olson, Gary D. "Thomas Brown, Partisan, and the Revolutionary War in Georgia, 1777-1782." Georgia Historical Quarterly, 54 (Spring-Summer 1970), pp. | | | Magazine of American History, 7 (December 1881), pp. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/revbib/southo.htm
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| | John Gray: Information From Answers.com |
| | According to author John Gray, what planet are men from? | | | Gray's site further claims that "at the time John Gray graduated and received his degree CPU was a highly respected school in its field"; however, in 1997 California's Deputy Attorney General Asher Rubin called it "a diploma mill which has been preying on California consumers for too many years"[5] (http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/dec24/chileno.html). | | | Critics have accused him of over-simplifying human psychology into stereotypes that fail to adequately describe many people. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/john-gray
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| | MILITARIA/AMERICAN REVOLUTION at MIKE BRACKIN CIVIL WAR ANTIQUES |
| | 1776 REVOLUTIONARY WAR COMMISSION American Revolutionary War officer's commission, issued to Ensgin Benjamin Conklin, 14th Connecticut Regiment, October 21, 1776. | | | INDIAN WAR OF 1814 The Tuscawora were American Allies in the War. | | | A significant Revolutionary War letter (Peter Anspach served as Lt, 2nd Continental Artillery and was Army Paymaster & Assoc of Alex Hamilton). |
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http://pages.mikebrackin.com/5089/InventoryPage/914972/1.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Battle for New York: Books |
| | I highly recommend this book to anyone that has a basic understanding of the Revolutionary War and is looking for a slightly different perspective than that presented in many general histories. | | | The author also provides detailed itineraries for touring the surprisingly many Revolutionary War sites that can still be seen in the expanse of New York's 19th and 20th Century sprawl. | | | Probably because we (the Americans) lost so ignominously. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802713742?v=glance
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| | EASY/UNITED STATES HISTORY |
| | The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. | | | The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue and the Gray. | | | The Facts on File History of the American People. |
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http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/easyushist.html
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| | John Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | John Gray (American Revolutionary War) is one of the candidates for the last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War | | | John Gray (playwright) is the Canadian playwright best known for Billy Bishop Goes to War. | | | John Gray (scientist) was a 19th century scientist who first identified the Dusky Dolphin. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray
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| | George Fruits: Information From Answers.com |
| | In 1865 the U.S. government paid out the last claim for the American Revolutionary War. | | | - August 6, 1876) claimed to be the last known surviving soldier of the American Revolutionary War. | | | It is possible that George Fruits is the son of a Revolutionary War veteran named George Fruit [1] (http://17762.tripod.com/fruigeor.html), and that the last surviving veteran is Daniel F. Bakeman (as listed by Department of Veterans Affairs). |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/george-fruits
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| | American Revolution. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | It is also called the American War of Independence. | | | Some of the more radical Revolutionary leaders were disappointed in the turn toward conservatism when the Revolution was over, but liberty and democracy had been fixed as the highest ideals of the United States. | | | John Sullivan led an expedition (1779) against the British and Native Americans in upper New York. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/am/AmerRev.html
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| | Civil War - Hearts of Blue & Gray - Civil War Sites - Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
| | This list of Civil War sites was compiled by the Convention and Visitors Bureau. | | | During the war it was used as a United States smallpox hospital. | | | At the end of the war, only one of the four original forts remained standing -- Fort D. It was the most heavily armed of the forts, with both 24- and 32- pound cannons that could fire across the Mississippi River to challenge any Confederate gunboats that might try to move north. |
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http://rosecity.net/civilwar/capesites
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| | Gray Family |
| | David Gray served as a militia Captain in the Revolutionary War, and probably went with his brother Joseph to Washington Co. VA after the war. | | | Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. | | | Benjamin Gray was under age when his father died, and chose his brother William as guardian in 1759, when he was age 14, indicating that he was born about 1745. |
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http://www.duke.edu/web/chlamy/gray.html
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| | Robert Gray Elementary School |
| | Robert Gray (1755-1860) was an American explorer who had previously been in the Navy during the Revolutionary War. | | | Gray was the first American-born in an America ship to circumnavigate the globe. | | | Because of Gray's exploration, the United States now laid claim to the Oregon Territory. |
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http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/rg/history.htm
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| | The Buckeye Chronicles - Noble County and John Gray |
| | John Gray, the last surviving soldier of the American Revolutionary War, lived in Noble County and died there of old age near the town of Hiramsburg in 1868. | | | When 16, he took up the musket of his father who had fallen at White Plains and carried it until the Revolutionar War was over. | | | Gray fought at Williamsburg and was at Yorktown for the final surrender, which took place in his 18th year. |
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http://www.lkwdpl.org/buckeye/buck21.htm
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| | "War memorials abound here" [The Kansas City, Kansan, 05/26/1985] |
| | This statue, the city's principal memorial to its Civil War Dead, was erected by the Woman's Relief Corps in 1910 on ground dedicated by the cemetery. | | | A list of all the war memorials, from the Civil War on: | | | It was dedicated by the citizens of Rosedale to those Rosedale servicemen who died in World War I and rededicated in 1962 to veterans of all wars. |
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http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kscoll/lochist/thennow/TN08.htm
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| | He also asked if native Americans were due an apology by those who aided in the genocide of his people. | | | This study analyzes the history of the 24th Infantry regiment in the Korean War to determine the quality of its performance during that conflict. | | | Many of these men had fought in the defense of New Orleans during the war of 1812. |
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http://www.aawar.net
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| | Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence — www.greenwood.com |
| | Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence — www.greenwood.com | | | Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence is an enjoyable read and will provide a more rounded understanding of daily life and the role of women during the war for independence. | | | Description: This modern, annotated adaptation of the original three-volume edition of Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Ellet restores, in a single volume, a unique compilation of the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolutionary War. |
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http://www.greenwood.com/books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C6263
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| | African Americans in the Navy: A Bibliography |
| | Scott's Official History of the American Negro in World War. | | | Green, Lorenzo J. "The Negro in the War of 1812 and the Civil War." Negro History Bulletin (Mar. 1951): 133. | | | Quarles, Benjamin A. The Negro in the Civil War. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-1.htm
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| | Africans in America Part 2 Resource Bank Contents |
| | • Fath Ruffins on free blacks at the end of the Revolutionary War | | | • Fath Ruffins on slavery's decline at the end of the Revolutionary War | | | • John Kaminski on post-war America in the 1780s |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2
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