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Lots of great Revolutionary War programming on television.

One of the series recording is John Adams on HBO. But the Military Channel is running an excellent series of documentaries called Revolutionary War, which I’m also recording. I just started it playing to clear off the hard drive.

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From a post about William Apes, some history of Native American land rights before the Revolutionary War.

Eighteenth century petitions to Boston produced few results, prompting the local Wampanoags to send one of their own - Reuben Cognehew - across to England to speak directly to King George III about the plight of the Mashpee Indians. Though the King granted them some degree of autonomy, Mashpee's right to self-government was rescinded with the American Revolutionary War.

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Francis Bellamy lived in Rome, N.Y., and wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.

Rome is historically significant for several other reasons. Ft. Stanwix in Rome was the first place the Stars and Stripes flew in the face of the enemy. The Battle of Oriskany, within the borders of Rome, was one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War. The first shovel of dirt for the Erie Canal, which opened travel to the West (which was Buffalo at the time), was turned in Rome (and “We’ll make Rome before 6 O’Clock, 15 Miles on the Erie Canal” was a lyric from a song we all had to sing in elementary school).

Click through for the history of the Pledge of Allegiance that Bellamy penned.

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A revolutionary war letter's relevance to today's tax issues.

The more times change, the more they remain the same. Check out this excerpt from a 1784 letter from Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary war hero, to James Madison, who was at the time a Delegate in our General Assembly:

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This city is named after a hero of the Revolutionary War, but it's not sure what name it should settle on.

But first we need to change our name to Greenwich. As you know, Greensboro is named for Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War hero and George Washington's most gifted and dependable general. Did you also know that between 1808 and 1895 that Greensboro was called Greensborough? Well, it was. It's obvious, then, that the important part of "Greensboro" is the "Green" part, and that we can continue to hohttp://blogcarnival.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-new.cgi?__mode=list_entries&blog_id=45&is_power_edit=2&filter=status&filter_val=1 Entries | War Stories | Movable Type Publishing Platformnor the great general by substituting "wich" for "sboro."

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Starting with the Revolutionary War, U.S. history is a series of one conflict after the next.

The United States was founded in war, the American Revolution, and has had wars in every generation from that time to World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and now the Afghan and Iraq wars. That is not unique to the United States. Every world region has had a war. In the context of world history, it seems war is inevitable, and as philosopher George Santayana sadly observed in 1905, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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A history buff talks about wars, including the revolutionary war.

I love history. I have spent most of my life studying various aspects and historical periods. I have delved into the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, WWII, the Zulus, The Sioux uprising of 1890, Lewis and Clark, the Revolutionary War, and WWI in recent decades. It is a hobby. I make no claims to genius, no special insight.

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The Revolutionary War was longer than the War in Iraq as of that war's fourth anniversary.

The Revolutionary War took a lot longer, and we won that one—in five years, if you date it from the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 to the British surrender after the Battle of Yorktown in October, 1781. But even without the fact that that was more than 225 years ago, what precedential value the Revolutionary War has cuts against the US in Iraq.

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