Sentences with phrase «revolutionary war years»
Writing letters in which pictures were substituted for words was a popular activity during the Revolutionary War years.
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Set in Boston during the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the book tells the story of a fourteen - year - old apprentice silversmith.
Edward J. Larson, a Pepperdine professor of law and history and a Pulitzer Prize winner, fills in six missing years of Washington's life as a private citizen, from the formal close of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to his inauguration as president in 1789.
Quite apart from the mistakes and sins of her own leaders, the Church in Europe in the years since the Enlightenment has faced constant pressure from revolutionary violence, intellectual contempt, ideological atheism, idolatry of the nation state, two disastrous world wars, and mass genocides.
My 7 - year - old Blaise is obsessed with the Revolutionary War.
On Sunday, the Colombian people rejected the recent peace deal that the Colombian government had reached with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) after 52 years of civil war.
He was captured in March and charged with 11 counts of war crimes for backing Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels during the country's brutal ten - year civil war.
Roxbury Latin — the school still requires three years of Latin — enjoys the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating school in America (though that statement always comes with a footnote: Boston Latin was founded ten years earlier, in 1635, but closed during the Revolutionary War: «War's begun, school's done,» announced Headmaster John Lovell).
«Rendezvous,» a picture set during the Revolutionary War, is the creation of the school's own Elmhurst Cinema Productions, which for the past several years has written and produced full - length feature movies.
American students know that year for the Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence on the east coast, but few — even those in California — know of events during that period on the west coast.
After securing victory in the Revolutionary War after nine years of dedicated leadership, the towering 51 - year - old general announced his retirement on December 23, 1783.
The years before the Revolutionary War were a tumultuous and fascinating time, especially in the larger cities and...
Five years ago, while William Rees was still recovering from his stint as a Revolutionary War soldier, his beloved wife died.
What's interesting to me though is that content doesn't change as quickly — and while there is demand for the latest, there's also demand for 50 - year old newsreels, for revolutionary war documents, and great - grandmother's memoirs.»
First inhabited by native peoples 20,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.
First inhabited by native peoples who arrived more than 10,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.
«As the crucial hinge between Post-War World II American Art and all that came after, Johns is arguably as important as any artist of the twentieth - century,» gushed the catalogue entry in a fit of hyperbole that this viewer finds ridiculous as nothing in the Post-World War II era can equal the revolutionary and sensational achievements of the first 20 years of the 20th Century highlighted of course by Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism.
The time frame for that exhibition began in the early 1500s and ended, for all intents and purposes, at the dawn of the 20th century, stopping short of the revolutionary aesthetic that swept through Western art in the years preceding the First World War.
«JACOB LAWRENCE: Struggle... From The History of the American People» @ Phillips Collection Washington, D.C. Ten years after Jacob Lawrence completed his celebrated Migration series, he painted 60 canvases documenting significant moments from the Revolutionary War to the great westward expansion of 1817.