There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
Ann Wright is a peace activist, former U.S. diplomat, and retired U.S. Army colonel. In 2003, she resigned from the ...
It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 — not even 12 months after the battles of Lexington and Concord — she wrote to her husband, John, who was with the Continental Congress.
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHow an American Merchant, a French Official and a Pioneering Chemist Smuggled Much-Needed Gunpowder to the Continental ArmyLavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNWhat Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
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