The American Revolutionary War

(12) American Revolutionary War Period’s Veteran’s Organizations & Patriotic Societies
American Revolutionary War Period’s Battle Maps
American Revolutionary War Period’s Memorials

The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, enforced their refusal to fall under the authority of Great Britain, and founded the new, independent United States of America.

American Revolutionary War Time Period: April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 (8 years, 4 months and 15 days)

American Revolutionary War Locations: Eastern North America, Caribbean Sea, Indian subcontinent, Central America, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.

American Revolutionary War’s American Casualties and losses:
6,824 killed in battle
25,000–70,000 dead from all causes
Overall casualties up to 50,000

Emanuel Leutze’s stylized depiction of Washington Crossing the Delaware

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The American Revolutionary War’s Patriotic Societies


The Daughters of the Cincinnati
General Society of Colonial Wars
The General Society Sons of the Revolution
The National Society of the Children of the American Revolution
The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
National Society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
The Society of the Cincinnati
Society of the Descendants of Washington’s
Army at Valley Forge

National Guard Association of the United States

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American Revolutionary War Battle Map(s)

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Brigadier General Richard Montgomery’s Monument St. Paul’s Chapel New York City

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other memorial of note:
American Revolution Statuary

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