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American Revolution!

Databases

• Political Cartoons About the American Revolution from Scholastic
• A New Nation: The Thomas Addis Emmet Collection of Illustrations Relating to the American Revolution and Early United States History
• The American Revolution ant Its Era (American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress)
• Pictures of the Revolutionary War
• LI artist finishes Washington's Crossing - Newsday Article compare Washington's Crossing, What's Wrong With this Painting (from Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) with the New Painting by Mort Künstler, a painter based in Long Island
  

• Lexington and Concord (from U.S. History)
• The Shot Heard Around the World (from Archiving America)
• The Battle of Lexington and Concord (from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Military Science)
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: The Battle of Lexington
• Battle of Lexington and Concord (from the Kidport Reference Library)
• Battle of Concord and Lexington (from British Battles.com)

Bunker Hill

• Bunker Hill Monument
• "The Decisive Day is Come" The Battle of Bunker Hill (from the Massachusetts Historical Society)
• The Battle of Breed's Hill (from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Military Science)
• Battle of Bunker Hill (from BritishBattles.com)

Battle of Brooklyn

• Brooklyn History Online - provides excellent historical links including one about The Battle of Brooklyn
• Largest Battle of War Fought in Brooklyn(from The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York)
• American Revolution: Battle of Long Island (by Kennedy Hickman, About.com Guide)
• Battle of Long Island (from BritishBattles.com)
• Battle of Brooklyn (from NYS Military Museum)
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Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

• Fort Ticonderoga Battle Plan (Memory): American
• Fort Ticonderoga (from the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum)
• Forts Carillon and Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain by James P. Millard
• Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (from BritishBattles.com)

Winter Quarters at Valley Forge

• The Story of Valley Forge
• Putnam State Park, Redding Connecticut: Site of 1778-1779 Winter Encampment of Putnam's Troops
• Letter Written by General George Washington at Valley Forge
• Historic Valley Forge
• George Washington: Valley Forge: Who Served Here?
• American Revolution: Winter at Valley Forge (by Kennedy Hickman, About.com Guide)
• What Happened at Valley Forge (from Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution: USHistory.org)

Battle of Saratoga

• Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga (from Liberty : PBS)
• Battle of Saratoga (from Saratoga County Chamber of Congress)
• Battle of Saratoga (from USHistory.org)
• Battle of Saratoga (from BritishBattles.com)
  

New York Colony (British in NYC)

• New York City During the American Revolution
• New Yorkers Took British Weapons in Raid (from The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York)
• The Frances Tavern Museum (from The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York)
• New York City Information: Discovery and Settlement
• Manhattan (from NYS Military Museum)
• Historic, Architecture and Sightseeing Tours of New York City
• Patriot Resource: British Occupy New York
  

Spies and Soldiers

• Brandywine Battlefield: Who Were the Minutemen? (from ushistory.org)
• Women Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (by Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF -Retired )
• Lydia Barrington Darragh (1728-1789)
• Clandesatine Women: Spies in American History: The American Revolution
• Captain Nathan Hale (1755 - 1776) by Rev. Edward Everett Hale (from the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution)
• Patriot Nathan Hale Was Hanged September 22, 1776 (from America's Story from America's Library)
  

  Long Island Spy Ring

• The Culper Spy Ring
• The Culper Spy Ring and Benedict Arnold
• Benjamin Tallmadge and the Culper Spy Ring (from Patriots of the American Revolution)

British Prison Ships

• Memorial to Martyred Mariners Rededicated
• Privateers or Merchant Mariners Help win the Revolutionary War
• Elizabeth Burgin
• Britain's Prison Ships, 1776-1783 (by Gary North)
• 'Rebel' Prisoners Detained in North America (by Paul J. Rastatter from Archiving Early America)
  

Literature Written During the Revolution

• The Crisis by Thomas Paine
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine
• The Common Sense by Thomas Paine (from Project Gutenberg)
• Thomas Paine (from - From Revolution to Reconstruction)
• Thomas Paine " These are the Times that Try Men's Souls..."(from ushistory.org)
• Portrait of Thomas Paine (from Archiving Early America)
• Thomas Paine (from Liberty by PBS)
• Check the World Book Online article on Thomas Paine.

• The Second Continental Congress (from Kidport)
• The Second Continental Congress (from Liberty - PBS)
• The Second Continental Congress (from USHistory.org)
• Coming of the American Revolution: The Second Continental Congress (from The Massachusetts Historical Society)

Role of Native Americans

• Native Americans and the American Revolution (from the HistoryWiz)
• American Indians and the American Revolution by Collin G. Calloway (from National Park Service)
• Native Americans in The Revolutionary War (by Rebecca Burgess from Oswego City School District)
• Chief Joseph Brant: Mohawk, Loyalist, and Freemason
• Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Mohawk
  

History of the Hessians and their Role in the Revolutionary War

• What Was a "Hessian?" (by Richard Patterson, Director of the Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, New Jersey)
• Hessians (from Social Studies for Kids)
• Hessians ( Liberty : The American Revolution from PBS)
• What Was a "Hessian?" (from Washington Crossing Histroic Park)

Marquis de Lafayette

• Marquis de Lafayette (from USHistory.org)
• The Marquis de Lafayette (from Colonial Williamsburg)
• Marquis de Lafayette (from the National Parks Service)
  

Francis Marion

• Francis Marion (from the Patriot Resource)
• Swamp Fox (picture from Smithsonian)
• Francis Marion (from Francis Marion Universary)
• The Swamp Fox : Francis Marion and the Men Who Served With Him (by Victoria Proctor)
• General Francis Marion (from the National Parks Service)

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

• Paul Revere
• Paul Revere's Other Ride
• Silversmith (from Colonial Williamsburg)
• The True Story of Paul Revere (from Archiving Early America)
• Paul Revere's Ride (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  

Camp Followers

• Women and Wagoners: Camp Followers in the American War for Independence by Holly A. Mayer
• Molly Pitcher (from Archiving Early America)
• Molly Pitcher (from Historic Valley Forge)
• Esther De Berdt Reed (1746-1780)
• Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751-1800)
  

King George III

• Portrait of George III (from Archiving Early America)
• George III (1760-1829)
• King George III 1738-1820

Slaves During the American Revolution

• The American Revolution and Slavery (from Digital History)
• Africans in America: The Revolutionary War (from PBS)
• Slavery and Liberty in the American Revolution : John Laurens's Black Regiment Proposal by Gregory D. Massey (from Archiving Early America)
• African Americans during The Revolutionary War Period
• Slavery and our Founding Fathers

Creation of the American Flag

• The History of the Flag of the United States of America
• Historical Flags of the United States
• Flag Timeline
• USA Flag Site
• Betsy Ross: Her Life (from Archiving Early America)
• Betsy Ross (from People of the American Revolution: Traitors, Seamstresses, and Generals - ThinkQuest)
• Betsy Ross (from Women in the American Revolution)
• Betsy Ross Homepage (from ushistory.org)
• Don't Tread on Me

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