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Definition of American revolutionary war
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
Definition of American revolutionary war
1. Proper noun. The American Revolution ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Revolutionary War
Literary usage of American revolutionary war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its by Timothy Pitkin (1817)
"COMMERCE interrupted during the american revolutionary war—Old Congress no power
to regulate commerce, or to levy duties on imports— Amount of the public ..."
2. Journal Or Historical Recollections of American Events During the by Elias Boudinot (1894)
"... that happened during the american revolutionary war, are likely to be lost to
posterity, by the negligence of the parties concerned, in not recording ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"The last is entitled " Poems written and published during the American Revolutionary
War, and now »published from the original Manuscripts, ..."
4. Select Historical Memoirs of the Religious Society of Friends, Commonly by William Hodgson (1881)
"THE TRIALS TO WHICH FRIENDS WERE SUBJECTED DURING THE american revolutionary war.
breaking out of hostilities between the British _L American colonies and ..."