The Culper Spy Ring was an American Spy Network used to process secret British information and to supply it to General Washington during the peak of the American War for Independence. ... The information collected and delivered on through the spy ring from 1778 to the wars end in 1783 consisted of key British movements, fortifications, and plans in New York and the surrounding region that helped the patriot's defeat the British in the American Revolutionary War. ... On September 3, 1783, The Treaty of Paris was signed and placed in action, formally recognizing the United States as an in...

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These acts were what led to the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775. ... Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. ... The Second Continental Congress met many times throughout the Revolutionary War. ... The Revolutionary War ended on May of 1781. ... This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War. ...

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These acts were what led to the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775. ... Then the Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775. ... The Second Continental Congress met many times throughout the Revolutionary War. ... The Revolutionary War ended on May of 1781. ... This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War. ...

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Another war tactic was called Guerrilla warfare. ... Finally, the British gave up in the North because the Battle of Monmouth was the last major Revolutionary War battle in the North. New Jersey started to modernize and industrialized after the Revolutionary War. ... In conclusion, the Revolutionary War ended successfully in New Jersey. The war tactics of George Washington, terrain and geography, and help from France played important roles in the Revolutionary War in New Jersey. ...

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Washington waited to make his selections as Congress created the departments of Treasury, War, and State. ... After the Revolutionary War, Hamilton's first task as Secretary of Treasury was to attempt to pay off the federal debt. ...

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War). ... The first major part of the Revolutionary War would come in the towns that were known as Lexington and Concord (Greene). ... War). ... War). ... By June 1776, Revolutionary War was in full swing and neither side backing down. ...

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The Articles of Confederation was the first documentation of the beginning structure of the United States government, which held together the 13 colonies who had just fought in the Revolutionary War. ... Every class of public creditors must know the inability of Congress to pay their demands, unless furnished with the means by the several States, and the exertions of that body have not been (lacking) heretofore to obtain the means " (Document C) This quote means that with the because to the mountain of debt Congress has to comply with, Congress keeps delaying to pay the Revolutionary War sol...

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The war was no longer about "the defense of their country, or for their rightful liberties as freeborn Englishmen," but for a "proudly proclaimed all-out war for an independent America of freedom and equality" (137). ... Considering that many Revolutionaries led mob assaults before Washington could regulate them, it is not at all surprising that they would consider the American Patriots just another unruly mob wanting to take money and power. ... And this war really was more of a civil war before the motives became clear and a revolution really was in full scale. ... On the...

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During his service under the British army, Washington started developing revolutionary concepts. ... When war began Adams, because of his desire to be acknowledged as a hero, wanted to fight in the war. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... Soon Jefferson became a revolutionary, and in 1776 wrote the most important document in this nation's history, the Declaration of Independence. ... Finally after close to three years of war Jefferson came out to serve as governor of Virginia in 1779. ...

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The Seven Years War between Great Britain and France and its subsequent acts had a substantial impact on British-American relations once the war was over. ... More turmoil arose from the Seven Years War when England passed the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act in consecutive years. ... Great Britain was suffering from huge war debts and thus taxed its colonies in an effort to create revenue. ... In a last attempt to avoid a revolutionary war, the Congress sent the "Olive Branch Petition" to King George that declared they wanted to remain allies with Britain but be given a certain independe...

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Not only did he serve as a role model for countless soldiers during America's Revolutionary War, but he set the pace for Presidents of the future. ... In 1780, the war turned south. ... Throughout the war it was obvious how much Washington had grown. ... As a result of losing so many battles during the war, he quickly learned other strategies to act on. ... Even though he was elected President General of the Society of the Cincinnati (a group of former Revolutionary War officers), he tried his best not to get involved with Virginia politics. ...

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This novel displays the conflicts that infant, post-revolutionary America had to face when dealing with foreign policy, power of government, and differing political ideologies. In "Founding Brothers", the thesis states that post-revolutionary America was fragile, prone to conflict, and overall divided. ... Due to the constitution however, the laws could only be discussed nor acted upon, causing this debate to boil up for years until the eventual internal struggle known as the Civil War. ... In 1795, Washington and Chief Justice John Jay made a treaty with England that favored English...

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Hamilton's first direct revolutionary movement was at a public meeting at the fields in New York City. ... During the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton became an artillery captain and served in the battles of Long Island, Trenton, Princeton and White Plains. ... He influenced Washington to take a policy of neutrality during the outbreak of war in Europe during 1793, and in 1794 he gave instructions for the diplomatic mission to Britain that caused an agreement known as Jay's Treaty. ... In 1798, when war with France seemed eminent President John Adams appointed Hamilton relucta...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... Washington, a Tidewater planter, was also an experienced soldier and surveyor, serving with distinction under Edward Braddock in the French and Indian War. ... His correspondence is rich with description of Washington, the war, and the meaning of life. ... The second section of the book, "The Fateful Summer," describes the movement of the war southward from Boston to New York, where the British and the Americans fought for cont...

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What effect has disease had on the history of war, in particular the American Revolution? ... Yellow fever had "constructed the geopolitical order form 1660 to 1780," but after 1780 it effectively "undermined" the power of empires because their foreign armies fell victim to the disease and were unable to defeat the immune revolutionary ex-slaves. ... " Adams supports his first complaint by outlining General Cornwallis and General Clinton's differing opinions on how the war should be fought. Cornwallis "wanted to march and counter march, fight battles and ...

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