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THE WAR
FOR
INDEPENDENCE
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OR INDEPENDENT NATION?
April, 1775
Lexington
July 4, 1776
(+ 15 mos.)
Against Independence
commonalities
fear
British advantages
4:1
4:1
4:1
vs Colonists
Continental Army
17,000  5,000
40,000
King George III
“Papa”
For Independence
The War
Propaganda
Propaganda
King George III
Hessians
The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
THE WAR
Vietnam
The War for Independence
The War for Independence
The War for Independence
a war of wills
Battle of Saratoga
October 17, 1777
Battle of Yorktown
October 17, 1781
Treaty of Paris
1783
Treaty of Paris
1783
“If ponies rode men,
and if grass ate cows,
And if cats should be chased
into holes by the mouse…
If summer were spring,
and the other way round,
Then all the world
would be upside down!”
“The World Turn’d Upside Down”

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