American revolution Quote by Francis Fox

“The best account of events in Pennsylvania leading up to the Declaration of Independence is found in David Freeman Hawke, In the Midst of…

— Francis Fox

“The Pennsylvania Linea Regimental Organization and Operations, 1776-1783 (Harrisburg, Pa., 1977),133.”

— Francis Fox

“The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the…

— Howard Zinn

“That brings me back to Monday, March 10, 1783, in Newburgh, New York, and the extraordinary events that followed over the next several days.”

— John Ripin Miller

“The rise of the resistance movement in Pennsylvania is examined in great detail by Richard Alan Ryerson, The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical…

— Francis Fox

“On January 27, 1778, the -Articles of Confederation-, recently adopted by Congress, were debated here [Montague, Massachusetts]. It was 'voted to approve of the…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“So, it was done, the break was made, in words at least: on July 2, 1776, in Philadelphia, the American colonies declared independence. If…

— David McCullough

“During elections for the 1776 convention to frame a constitution for Pennsylvania, a Privates Committee urged voters to oppose “great and overgrown rich men…

— Howard Zinn

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

“In December 1776, some 600 Northampton militiamen marched to help defend Philadelphia from the British Army. But when these sometime soldiers experienced the hardship…

— Francis Fox

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“It was on July 2, 1776 that the Second Continental Congress voted for the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. On…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One