The American Revolution: A Loyalist's Perspective Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. ... In reality, the American Revolution was not supported or condoned by all American colonists, as we are sometimes led to believe. Although, there are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained "loyal" to the British during the American Revolution, it is indisputable that support for the war was far from universa...

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We are taught to view the war as a Revolution, a fight for freedom, liberty and the right to own property, a fight that would, in the end, be beneficial to every American. In reality, the American Revolution was not supported or condoned by all American colonists, as we are sometimes led to believe. Although, there are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained "loyal" to the British during the American Revolution, it is indisputable that support for the war was far from universal. ... There are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained "loyal" to the Brit...

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For the wealthy, white men of the American colonies, the American Revolutionary Period was a time in which many aspects of culture, politics, and society were transformed. ... During the drafting of the constitution, a large propertyless mass was excluded from participation as noted by Charles Beard in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. ... These same masculine systems that were in place during the British rule continued to dominate with no hint at reform after the countrys restructuring. ... The American Revolutionary period was revolutionary for only a small...

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During the early period of the American Revolution, the British and Colonial Armies were forced to adopt two different approaches to attempt victory because of variations in foreign affairs. ... The Battle of Saratoga turned around the international view on the American Revolution and consequently the tides of the war. ... Foreign perspective of the American Revolution was changed at the Battle of Saratoga. ... Foreign intervention kept the American fight alive, the French keeping the budding American government together by lending it money that was paramount in keeping the Revolution alive...

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Military supplies were plentiful, credit easily obtained, and the early vestiges of the Industrial Revolution were gaining a foothold with England in the forefront. ... The political and military leaders of England during the Revolutionary War period are the men who lost America. ... Political leaders in Britain during the colonial era did not have the benefit of a current day political party to prop them up. ... British leadership during the Revolutionary War and the era immediately preceding it thought they were defending liberty and the rule of law. ... Like Washington, he led assaults at...

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Of the revolutions passed that day, five of the resolutions dealt specifically with the possibility of seizing whatever stores of warlike materiel were available. ... That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors, and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices or enlisted into such battalions but such are good seamen or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve with advantage b...

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