The Revolution was not only fought on distant battlefields. It was fought on women’s very doorsteps, in the fields next to their homes. There was no way for women to avoid the conflict or the disruptions and devastations it caused.

Women on both sides of the conflict were frequently left alone to care for their households. In addition to their existing duties, women took on roles usually assigned to men on farms and in shops and taverns.

Americans celebrated their victory, but it came at great cost. Soldiers suffered through brutal winters with inadequate resources.

The Americans took advantage of the British southern strategy with significant aid from the French army and navy.

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severe fighting ensued between local patriots and loyalists, often pitting family members against one another. The war in the South was truly a civil war.

He slowly realized that European military tactics would not work in North America. In Europe, armies fought head-on battles in attempt to seize major cities

A Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed on February 6, 1778. The treaty effectively turned a colonial rebellion into a global war as fighting between the British and French soon broke out in Europe and India.42

The Continental Army defeated Burgoyne’s men at Saratoga, New York.41 This victory proved a major turning point in the war.

the British believed that the mere threat of war and a few minor incursions to seize supplies would be enough to cow the colonial rebellion. Those minor incursions, however, turned into a full-out military conflict

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