revolutionary war
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As such, the National Museum of the United States Army, just a few miles from Gen. George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, has mounted an exhibit, “Call to Arms: The Soldier and the Revolutionary War.”
Once inside the gallery, darkened to protect light-sensitive documents and clothing, some of the important battles of the Revolutionary War are laid out chronologically.
His red coat with black trim, red waistcoat with hand-stitched buttonholes and gold regimental buttons, and white breeches “represent the only complete uniform of the Revolutionary war.”
The American victory at Saratoga in October 1777 is often called the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
In school, we were taught that the Statue of Liberty had been cast in Paris, that the Marquis de Lafayette had been a U.S. commander in the American Revolutionary War and that St. Louis in Missouri was named after a 13th-century French king.
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