Posts Tagged ‘Declaration of Independence’

The Revolutionary War was fought between Great Britain and the thirteen North American Colonies. Many consider July 4, 1776, the starting point of the American Revolution, but in reality it starts much earlier. The English Parliament began imposing taxes on American colonies to help pay for the French and Indian War. These taxes led to…

By the winter of 1776, much of the initial enthusiasm for American Independence had begun to wane. The American Army was made up of farmers and craftsmen who had left their homes to fight for independence. However, many had only signed up for a limited term of service, and they would be free to return home in…

The Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War refers to the series of military conflicts that took place in the southern colonies between 1778 and 1781 in the final years of the American Revolution. The British, who had focused their efforts on the northern colonies during the early years of the war, shifted their attention…

The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states and no longer a part of the British Empire. These states would form a new nation, the United States of America.…

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…