American Revolution

Famous people and turning points in America's fight for independence.

Useful links:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revwar-75.htm: The History Place's American Revolution Timeline. Illustrated Revolutionary War timeline
http://www.dell.homestead.com/revwar/files/INDEX2.HTM: American Revolution Home Page. Descriptions of events and people in the Revolution.
http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/doc.shtml: ThinkQuest's Infopedia.Links to concise descriptions of major battles and individuals, as well as a collection of primary source documents.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/index.html: PBS Liberty! Chronicle of the Revolution. Imagined historical newspapers describe key events.
http://www.walika.com/sr/Battles1775-77a.htm: Statistics on Revolutionary War battles compiled by the Sons of the Revolution of California, Part 1 (get to Part 2, 1778 - 1781, through link at bottom of page).
http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/America/Rev/1775-Bunker-Waller.htm: A British lieutenant writes a harrowing account of this battle against the 'rebellious rascals' at Breed's Hill.
http://americanrevolution.org/delxing.html: Gen. Washington's letter describing his successes at Trenton and Princeton, following his famous crossing of the Delaware, from americanrevolution.org's Scholars' Showcase.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/war/waldo.htm: Primary source account detailing the miseries and indignities of Valley Forge, from the University of Groningen's Hypertext on American History.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/decindep2.htm: Two famous paintings and the full text of the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/blacks/blacks2.html: Hypertext essay from Columbia University's American History Archive Project on African American soldiers on both sides of the fighting.