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Definition of American War of Independence
1. Noun. The revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783.
Generic synonyms: Revolution
Terms within: Battle Of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill, Battle Of Cowpens, Cowpens, Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, Concord, Lexington, Lexington And Concord, Battle Of Monmouth, Battle Of Monmouth Court House, Monmouth Court House, Battle Of Saratoga, Saratoga, Siege Of Yorktown, Yorktown
Lexicographical Neighbors of American War Of Independence
Literary usage of American War of Independence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"but prevented from being acted by an order from the chamberlain, who, in the
recent feeling of the American war of independence, took alarm at several of ..."
2. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"but prevented from being acted by an order from the chamberlain, who, in the
recent feeling of the American war of independence, took alarm at several of ..."
3. The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution: With Some Account of by Charlemagne Tower (1894)
"This young French nobleman, who had left his home and crossed the ocean to fight
in the American War of Independence, illustrated to an extraordinary degree ..."
4. The South American Republics by Thomas Cleland Dawson (1904)
"THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE THE South American war of independence began and ended
on the plateau of Upper Peru. On Bolivia's soil the first blood of ..."
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