Revolutionary war?

Question

i have to write an essay and have no clue what the revolutionary war is...... aka bunkerhill, concord and lexington.

Answer 1

Wikipedia is your friend.

Answer 2

Watch the movie  The Patriot

Answer 3

Watch the movie The Patriot

Answer 4

The American revolutionary war is the defining event of our entire nation. From this war we establish ideas about personal liberties, and denounce tyrants. From this war our nation struggles to develop a republic that wont crumble under the weight of an emporer like Napolean of France or Ceaser of Rome. More great minds and great thinkers came out of this era than of any era in our modern American history. We made advancements in philosophy, like the freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bare arms, and even began to hatch ideas about the rights of slaves (Benjamin Franklin was a noted abolitionist).

The defining moments of the war do include bunkerhill, concord, and lexington, but those are only the opening moments of battle. Preluding that are the actions of Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party, the Stamp Act, and the French and Indian War.

The war actually turns at King's Mountain, it's often reported that it turned elsewhere, but this is a misnomer. Before King's Mountain, we suffered countless defeats in the south. A worthy and suave figure to look into from the south however is known as "the swamp fox", its his character from which Mel Gibson in The Patriot is based on. George Washington's battles to come south were equally important, but they didn't drive Cornwallis from south carolina, a bunch of irritated backwoods German-Scotch-Irish armed with hunting rifles did that.

Don't forget to mention the horrors of Valley Forge or the crossing of the Deleware!

Some points of obscurity: The British allied themselves with the 5 tribes and made our lives h**l for a while. This could be an interesting Native American approach. Or you could consider the effect the war had on the great lakes or Canada. Or the uneasy agreement to tolerate slavery forged after the war. Or the fact that King George said that if George Washington stepped down from his seat of power he'd be the greatest man to ever live, and how Washington was such a man of character that he did just that.

There's about a million angles to come at this from, and you'd be the wiser for it.

And oh yeah, I'm writing this off the top of my head at 3 in the morning, so check my alleged facts.

Answer 5

HBO John Adams story also glory  with Mathew Broderick