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American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War for Independence, was the military side of the American Revolution. It was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and the nascent 'United States of America', insofar as that yet existed. The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire (and, with American-British loyalists vs American-British revolters, could even be seen as a civil war, as Richard Holmes (military historian) has suggested) but eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain. Additionally, many Native Americans fought on both sides of the conflict. ..." |
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The Revolutionary War and the Destruction of the Continental, by Thomas Woods, Mises.org Daily Article, 11 Oct 2006
"... the continental currency lost so much of its value that it became common to describe something as worthless by saying it was 'not worth a Continental.' Financing for the American War for Independence included loans and subsidies from the French government as well as the modest sums Congress received as a result of its requisitions upon the states. But paper money played a central role in Revolutionary War finance." |
Libertarians of Will, Intellect, and Action, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1977
Related Topics: Libertarianism, United States Declaration of Independence, Libertarian Party, Thomas Paine, The State
Keynote address to the Libertarian Party Convention
"The American revolutionaries set themselves a goal: to transform reality so as to bring the rhetoric of the Declaration into living practice. The American Revolution was the process of struggle by which the revolutionaries pursued their goal and achieved their victory." |
The Rocky Road of American Taxation, by Charles Adams, Mises.org Daily Article, 15 Apr 2006
Related Topics: Taxation, Samuel Adams, Canada, Thirteen Colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Private Property, Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Voting, War
Adapted from the author's For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
"In the end the Americans revolted when Parliament adopted the kind of taxation the colonists said they were willing to pay. You could justifiably say that the American Revolution occurred, not because we objected to taxes without representation, but because we objected to taxes, period. And the American attitude didn't change much after the war." |
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The Scoundrel Robert Morris, by Douglas E. French, The Free Market, Feb 1995
Related Topics: Robert Morris
"Robert Morris became the Superintendent of Finance during the last years of the war. Throughout the war, the government issued notes to pay for supplies. ... Morris, attempting to marshall support for federal taxes, used his position to stir up both the army (by not paying it), and public creditors (by ceasing all interest payments)." |
The man who financed the American Revolution, by Jim Powell
Related Topics: Robert Morris
"... price controls discouraged sellers from making goods available, and the result was chronic shortages. Hence, the misery of Washington's 12,000 soldiers at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania where, during the winter of 1777, they huddled in the cold without enough food, shoes or blankets as well as forage for horses." |
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