This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Great Struggle and Birth of American Independence
A compact recounting of the colonial resistance from the Stamp Act through the Revolutionary War. It notes key acts, acts of Parliament, battles such as Lexington and Yorktown, the leadership of George Washington, allied help from France and Spain, and the formal independence declared on July 4 1776 with the later peace in 1783.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Boston
Gov. Gage
Britain
America
Concord
Mass
Lexington
Congress
Philadelphia
George Washington
Breed’ Hill
Charleston
Sir William How
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia
Great Britain
Thomas Jefferson
Job Benjamin Franklin
Robert R. Livin
Mr. Jefferson
Washington
New York
Howe
Lord Howe
Sir Henry Clinton
Long
Hudson River
Trenton
Silas Deane
Benjamin Franklin
France
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron Steuben
Baron de Kalb
Kos-kiusco
Pulaski
New Jersey
Burgoyne
Canadia
Hudson
New England
Confederacy
Stillwater
Soga
Clipton
Ger Howe
Phildelphia
Monmouth
N. J
Gates
Admiral de Varney
Count de Rochambeau
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Count de Grasse
Sir Guy Carleton
Paris