revolutionary war
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He was a long way from revolutionary war.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
What is less clear to those on the outside is why a document written nearly 250 years ago in response to a revolutionary war still has such resonance in 2022.
From BBC • May 25, 2022
In Concord, Massachusetts, a small crowd gathered at the historically poignant spot of the Battle of Lexington and Concord that sparked the revolutionary war.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019
An unnamed ironist had appropriated a quotation from Mao about revolutionary war as “an antitoxin” that “eliminates the enemy’s poison” and offered it as a rebuke of the solemnity of Communist propaganda.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
For twenty years, over the entire life span of the revolutionary war and the experiment with republican government, Washington had stood at the helm of the ship of state.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
