What everyone likes to remember about the French Revolution is that it proclaimed the rights of man, including equality for all under the law. By comparison, its slightly older and wiser sister, the ...
Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...
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How the American Revolution started a chain reaction
You are familiar with the story of the American Revolution. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...
Jean Marie Joseph Bove's depiction of Lafayette returning to the U.S. The caption says, 'A great man belongs to the whole universe.' Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library via Wikimedia ...
An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...
It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...
Sister revolutions -- Revolutionary leadership -- Conflict or consensus? -- Revolutionary talk, revolutionary stage -- Declaring--and denying--rights -- Enlightenment ...
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