revolutionary war

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In her remarks, Machado described the story of military general who fought in America's Revolutionary War who had given a medal to Simon Bolivar, one of the founding father's of modern Venezuela.

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But when the states in 1790 couldn’t pay back the loans they had taken on to pay for the Revolutionary War, he led the campaign for a federal assumption of the state debts—so Congress would pay a federal debt, not state debts.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the Revolutionary War’s outcome was settled by engagements that conformed to this conventional model—the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and the siege of Yorktown four years later—these set-piece encounters were atypical, as Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin demonstrate in “War Without Mercy.”

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During the Revolutionary War, Messrs. Lender and Martin emphasize, “local forces were left to fight according to their own rules, which quite often meant no rules.”

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The unforgiving nature of the Revolutionary War was underscored by a subsequent exodus of loyalists.

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