“The American Revolution was not simply an anti-colonial war for independence against the British—an attempt, in the words of Gordon Wood, of ‘eighteenth-century Americans [to] thr[o]w off their monarchical allegiance.’ It was also a colonial war of conquest against North America’s Indigenous peoples.”
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“The American Revolution was not simply an anti-colonial war for independence against the British—an attempt, in the words of Gordon Wood, of ‘eighteenth-century Americans [to] thr[o]w off their monarchical allegiance.’ It was also a colonial war of conquest against North America’s Indigenous peoples.”