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Sustaining the War» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Pacifying Indians on the frontier: three documents, 1776-1778, excerpts |
| - | Recruiting enslaved blacks into the army: six documents, 1776-1781, excerpts |
| - | Predicting Britain's response to the U.S. alliance with France: letters of Benjamin Franklin and the American negotiators, 1778 |
| - | Requesting state aid for the army: Washington's appeal to the governor of Pennsylvania, 1780 |
| - | Announcing the treason of Benedict Arnold: Washington's statement to the Continental Army, 1780 |
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Fighting the War» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Pension narratives of Revolutionary War veterans, 1830s, selections |
| - | Philip Freneau, The British Prison Ship, poem, 1781, selection |
| - | Boyrereau Brinch, enslaved black soldier in the American army, narrative selections |
| - | Boston King, fugitive slave in the British army, narrative selections |
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Living the War» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Margaret Hill Morris, Quaker widow in New Jersey, journal selections, 1776-1777 |
| - | Molly Gutridge, Massachusetts, "A New Touch of the Times," poem, 1779 |
| - | Mary Jemison (Dehgewanus), white Seneca adoptee in New York, narrative selections, 1779-1780 |
| - | Eliza Yonge Wilkinson, planter's daughter in South Carolina, letter selections, 1780 |
| - | Esther De Berdt Reed, Sentiments of an American Woman, broadside, 1780 |
| - | Anna Rawle, Loyalist's daughter in Philadelphia, journal selections, 1781 |
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Losing the War» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | British satirical rebuses (2) on the U.S. alliance with France, 1778 |
| - | British cartoons (4) on Britain's defeat in the war, 1782 |
| - | Loyalists and the defeat of Britain: selections from letters, narratives, petitions, and poetry, 1782-1786 |
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Winning the War» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Governors' appeals for citizen unity in the war effort, 1780-1781, selections |
| - | Satirical epitaph for King George III after the defeat of Britain, broadside, 1782 |
| - | Benjamin Franklin, letters from Paris on the peace process, 1781-1784 |
| - | Maps
- 1783: The United States of America (Sayer)
- 1784: Bowles's New Pocket Map of the United States of America |
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Images:
– Amos Doolittle, A View of the South Part of Lexington, 1775 (detail), print #4 of series Battles of Lexington and Concord, colored etchings/engravings, 1775. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital ID 54390.
– Reddition de l'Armée angloises commandée par Mylord Comte de Cornwallis . . . [Surrender
of the English army . . .], hand-colored engraving, Paris, 1781 (detail). Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division,
G3884.Y6S3 1781 .M6 Vault.
– John Trumbull, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, oil on canvas, 1820 (detail of Washington and American troops). Courtesy of the U.S. Capitol.
– Treaty of Paris, 1783, final page with signatures (detail). Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives.
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