![]() ![]() The Revolutionary War ended with an American victory in 1783, due in large part to financial and military aid from France. ![]() In 1776, the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, officially announcing their intentions to secede from the British Empire. By the 1770s, this movement had erupted into a full-on war of rebellion. The book was written to explain the war as not being always glorious, but being full of defeat. It is written from a point of view that makes you feel like you’re right there with Washington as he writes all of his letters and does everything. By the late 1760s, there was broad support among Americans for an expulsion of British troops from America and a return to what had been the status quo prior to the French and Indian War. The book 1776 by David McCullough portrays the war in a realistic manner. The British crown also increased its military presence in America, often forcing American families to provide food and lodging for British soldiers in their own homes, and at their own expense. ![]() Following the French and Indian War, which lasted from 1754 to 1763, the British Empire began to tighten controls over its American colonies, instituting heavy taxes (most infamously the Stamp Act of 1765). Book summary The book talks of the revolution in the good year 1776. Great Britain had abandoned slavery many years ago but the revolutionaries had not stopped up until 1862 when they decided to stop it. The primary historical event of 1776 is, of course, the Revolutionary War. The year 1776 was the year of battle for the revolutionary war. ![]()
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