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The American Revolution

 

"American Revolution, also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War, (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect." [Willard M. Wallace, Encyclopædia Britannica.com] Read More

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Crispus Attucks, the first martyr of the American Revolution, King (now State) Street, Boston, March 5th 1779,

Peter Salem, the colored American at Bunker Hill

Brave colored artilleryman

Crispus Attucks

James Armistead Lafayette

Battle of Bunker Hill, Peter Salem shooting the British Major Pitcairn

Lafayette, James Armistead [Facsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's original certificate commending James Armistead Lafayette

Black man firing gun-early American War

Prince Hall

Prince Whipple

Lemuel Haynes

Agrippa Hull

Oscar Marion

Marion crossing the Peedee

An African-American hero at the Battle of Cowpens

William "Billy" Lee

Portrait of a black sailor (Paul Cuffe?)

Portrait of a black Revolutionary War sailor.

James Forten

A Member of Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment

Continental soldiers at Yorktown; on the left, an African American soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment

Sam Fraunces

Henri Christophe

Jean-Baptiste Belley

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