American Revolution

noun

1. the war between Great Britain and its American colonies, 1775–83, by which the colonies won their independence.

American Revolution

noun

1. the usual US term for War of American Independence

Example Sentences

Mr. Wood is a professor emeritus of history at Brown University and author of “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.”

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Historian Gordon Wood wrote that the American Revolution “reconstituted what Americans meant by public or state power and brought about an entirely new kind of popular politics and a new kind of democratic officeholder.”

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That resistance is rooted in tradition dating back to the American Revolution.

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Some veer into hyperbole, as when he describes “The American Revolution” as the most important event in world history after the birth of Christ.

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With the exception of some rudimentary re-creations, what’s visual in “The American Revolution” had to be conjured out of whole, hand-loomed cloth.

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