Revolutionary War Essays and Research Papers

The revolutionary war, also called the American Revolution, was a series of events that led to 13 colonies gaining their freedom from Britain. The 13 colonies of Britain, located in Northern America, had shots fired between the colonists & Britain soldiers which signals the start of the revolution. The American Transformation was the principal effective…

It’s 1784 and the Americans, it turns out, have staged a successful revolution. They haven’t lost any land to the British- in fact, they have gained land. Now they must form a government, and the first steps, like any small child’s, are wobbly. Very wobbly. The politicians of the day don’t fully understand the extent…

October 19, 1781 was the day that the Battle of Yorktown official ended with a British surrender. The Battle of Yorktown ended after three weeks of nonstop bombardment. September 28, 1781 was the day that the battle started. The colonists decided to fight once the British started undertaking the Southern campaign in order to keep…

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, written by Carol Berkin, features the revolutionary war through the eyes of women. She makes a point that women played one of the important roles in the war, though the history books often rule them out, or romanticize their roles. Carol Berkin has textual evidence that…

What role did women play in the American revolution? Did you know that women did a lot to protect our country? During The American Revolution, women did a lot to help and played a big role in protecting our country and fighting for independence. Women often took jobs when they were not able to support…

In 1777 on the hills of Valley Forge during The Revolutionary War, the Colonial Army Troops lead by General George Washington were struggling. The Colonial Army troops faced many disadvantages such as diseases, sickness, malnutrition, exposure and wounded soldiers and crowded living quarters that lacked established standards. In fact, around 16,000 soldiers died from starvation…

In Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by Carol Berkin, who is a History Professor at Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Baruch College, provides several viewpoints of the way women were affected by the Revolutionary War but at the same time also playing majors roles in it….

Shortly after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, which left the British with a large war debt that needed to be paid, the English government decided to pass a few laws, imposing taxes on the colonists, such as the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765) which Congress later condemns, and the Townshend…

Washington Spies were a small group of men, about five to six full time agents and several sub-agents that worked off and on and that operated in many different places throughout the war and as well worked for George Washington himself. They were known as the Culper Rings. The members of the Culper Ring were,…

The American revolution transpired in 1775. In 1765 Great Britain was in great debt caused by the seven-year war. Since they needed money quickly they started taxing the American colonies with an operation called “The Stamp Act”. This ended poorly despite trying a second time. Both times they had to take down the taxes. By…