Revolutionary War
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Forty Indian villages—and a powerful indigenous nation—were razed on the orders of George Washington
An invention paves the way for modern submarine warfare
African-Americans ended up on both sides of the war, though they shared the goal of evading slavery.
America needed the French to defeat the Brits, but it was Paris that lost in the end
Americans slaughtered their countrymen in the bloody Battle of Waxhaws in the woods of South Carolina
Many soldiers were not necessarily driven by the cause of liberty
Despite his share of errors, the commander in chief prevailed as a strategist and a politician.
Baron de Steuben may have been a fraud but he knew how to wage war.
How the canny Ben Franklin talked the French into a crucial alliance.
Privateers plundered British ships and made fortunes, to boot.
