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Hace 4 días · Sir Henry Clinton, KB, (April 16, 1738 – December 23, 1795) was a British army officer and politician during the American Revolutionary War. Clinton was born in Newfoundland, then a British colony over which his father, George Clinton, was governor.
Hace 1 día · The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Hace 3 días · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a peace treaty in 1783. The colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America .
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
Hace 5 días · On October 6th, 300 Continental soldiers of the 5th New York regiment, 100 artillerymen of Lamb's Artillery, and some 300 Levies and militiamen defended the unfinished Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton against a combined force of roughly 2,100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton ...
Hace 5 días · On April 12, Lt. General Henry Clinton ordered Tarleton and Ferguson to capture Monck's Corner, which was a crossroads just south of Biggins Bridge near the Santee River. Gen. Isaac Huger was stationed there 500 men under orders from Lincoln to hold the crossroads so that communications with Charleston would remain open.
Hace 4 días · This online exhibit from the Sir Henry Clinton Collection at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, examines the everyday intelligence operations of both the British and American armies. Many of the letters highlighted in this digital exhibit were pivotal to the successes and failures of sieges, battles, and surprise attacks.
Hace 3 días · The descriptors “American Revolution” and “Revolutionary War” came along generations after the events themselves. Why was the R-word avoided during that time? In the public consciousness, especially among the Founding Fathers, “revolution” conjured up radical images of the English Civil Wars (1640-1660) and the Glorious Revolution (1688-89).
