THANKS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Logan M. Cheek" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [AMER-REV] AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-D Digest > The simple answer is Yorktown on October 19, 1781. > > The truth is more complicated: the Brits didn't just pick up their > marbles, go home, and negotiate a peace treaty. > > The war continued in the west. The Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky > -- considered at least by Kentuckians as part of the Revolution -- > occurred on August 19, 1782. > > Clinton and the Brits remained holed up in New York City, and > Washington had to keep the Continental Army stationed just north of > New York at Newburgh (on the Hudson) until 1783 to keep them from > breaking out and starting things all over again. (This was where the > Newburgh Conspiracy occurred, when WAshington declined the offer of > his officers to become king.) > > Between 1781 and 1783, in addition to Blue Licks, there were numerous > skirmishes with Indians on the western frontier provoked, > coordinated, and often led by the British garrison at Detroit. > > Somewhere long ago, I read a figure that suggested that there were > more American casualties -- primarily in the west -- than all of > 1775-1781. (One source puts US total casualties in the War were 4,435 > slightly less than the number killed on 9/11 and the War in Iraq.) > > Logan M. Cheek > [email protected] > > > On Jul 14, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Hudson Meacham wrote: > > > If the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of > > Lexington and > > Concord On April 19, 1775. > > When did it END? Thanks > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:23 AM > > Subject: [AMER-REV] AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-D Digest > > > > > > > >> On April 19, 1775, > >> the American Revolutionary War began > >> with the battles of Lexington and Concord. > >> > >> > >> ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > >> List Mom for AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L: > >> Diana Boothe [email protected] > >> > >> ============================== > >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in > >> the > >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > >> > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > USGS Mapping Information query form > http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >