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  1. Vor 3 Tagen · The American Revolution (1775–83) was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britains North American colonies, which won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and many North American colonists.

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  2. Vor einem Tag · 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.

  3. Vor 4 Tagen · Instead, he argues that ‘[far] from evading a sense of involvement in colonial violence, people in Britain were repeatedly confronted by it, as the networks of imperial modernity brought them into vivid contact with the front lines. Rather than avoiding the question of complicity altogether, they had to constantly struggle with it, to justify their response or the absence of one’ (p. 9 ...

  4. Vor 3 Tagen · 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"). The Confederacy had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...

  5. Vor 5 Tagen · By examining the cases of the LGBTQ, immigrant, Muslim rights movements, and #MeToo movement, Yazdiha explores how the collective memory of trailblazers, freedom riders, and brave leaders powerfully shapes the limits of American identity and the remembrance of Dr. King’s legacy.

  6. Vor 11 Stunden · PORTSMOUTH, England (AP) — The British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in Northern France didn’t need a calendar to remember June 6, 1944. The events of that day remain etched on their minds, unforgettable in their horror, inexplicable in their pain.

  7. Vor 4 Tagen · That night, transport aircraft packed with 24,000 British and American paratroopers began taking off from airfields across southern England and heading for targets inside Nazi-occupied France.