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American Revolution

  1. a sequence of actions by American colonists from 1763 to 1775 protesting British domination and culminating in the Revolutionary War
  2. the Revolutionary War (1775-83), fought by the American colonies to gain independence from Great Britain

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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