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Aug 3, 2024 · The American Revolution (1775–83) was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies, which won political independence and went on to form the United States of America.
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Boston Tea Party, precursor to the American Revolution in...
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2 days ago · Kidd argues that religious disestablishment, belief in God as the source of human rights, and shared convictions about sin, virtue, and divine providence worked together to unite rationalists and evangelicals and thus encouraged a large proportion of Americans to fight for independence from the Empire.
2 days ago · Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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- The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam’s government and military since Vietnam’s partition into the commu...
- By nearly every metric, the Vietnam War was, in the common sense of the word, a war. The United States committed some 550,000 troops to the Vietnam...
- The question of who won the Vietnam War has been a subject of debate, and the answer depends on the definition of victory. Those who argue that the...
- In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides...
3 days ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
1 day ago · Spanish–American War - Wikipedia. The Spanish–American War[ b] (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
6 days ago · Samuel Oakford. Updated August 8, 2024 at 6:33 p.m. EDT | Published August 8, 2024 at 9:11 a.m. EDT. KYIV — Ukrainian troops battled for a third day Thursday in Russia’s Kursk region ...
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Jul 22, 2024 · Spanish-American War, (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.