American Revolutionary War Patriot Grave

[+chstress53]

American Revolutionary War Patriot Graves sounds like a great Category to me. If and when it is accepted as a category it would fit well under memorials and nicely dove tail with the American Revolutionary War Soldiers Graves that is already in place. If chosen as a category erirk would make a great manager until that process changes.

Edited January 18, 2006 by chstress53

[Jeremy]

We were debating this in the other topic. What is a good definition of a patriot?

[+chstress53]

Maybe I should not have moved this topic from the other thread, but I thought maybe erroniously that to be clear maybe we needed a new thread, as some how we are not understanding one other. At least that is my perception.

Here is a definition of Patriot with examples

Patriots (also known as Partisans, or Rebels) were British North American colonists who rebelled against the Crown during the American Revolution and established the independent states that became the United States of America. Patriots were influenced by John Locke and the American Enlightenment. Historians in recent decades have also emphasized the influence of British "Old Whig" or "country-party" writers on the American Patriots.

 

As a group, Patriots comprised a wide array of political points-of-view and social positions, from college students like Alexander Hamilton, to aristocratic planters like Thomas Jefferson, to plain farmers like Daniel Shays. Their opponents among fellow colonists were the Loyalists, who remained loyal to the British Crown. Loyalists condemned their opponents with the label "traitors" rather than the "patriots" label.

 

Many Patriots were active before 1775 in groups such as the Sons of Liberty. The most prominent leaders of the Patriots are revered to this day by Americans as Founding Fathers of the United States.

List of prominent Patriots

Note: most of the individuals listed below served the Revolution in multiple capacities. The classifications below are in suggestion of those for which they have most been remembered.

Statesmen and office holders

 

* Benjamin Franklin

* John Hancock

* John Adams

* Thomas Jefferson

* Richard Henry Lee

* James Madison

* John Dickinson (1732-1808)

 

Pamphleteers and activists

 

* Samuel Adams

* William Molineux

* Thomas Paine

* Alexander Hamilton

* Richard Price (active from abroad)

* Paul Revere

 

Military officers

See also List of important people in the era of the American Revolution.

 

* Nathanael Greene

* George Washington

 

The American Revolution is the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was one part of the revolution, but the revolution began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown.

 

* Patriot (American Revolution), one who supported the American cause in the American Revolutionary War.

* Patriots (faction), the group opposed to the Orangists in the United Provinces in the 17th century.

 

 

A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority. It is often used in reference to armed resistance against an established government, but can also refer to mass nonviolent resistance movements. Those who participate in rebellions are known as "rebels".

 

United Kingdom.

 

 

The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state located in Western Europe, from 1707 to 1800. It was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain.

 

North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of 9,355,255 mi² (24,230,000 km²). In 2001 its population was estimated at 454,225,000.

 

British monarch or Sovereign is the head of state of the United Kingdom and in the British overseas territories. The current British monarchy can trace its line back to the Anglo-Saxon period. During the ninth century, Wessex came to dominate other kingdoms, and during the tenth, England was consolidated into a single realm.

 

The American Revolution is the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was one part of the revolution, but the revolution began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown.

John Locke (August 29, 1632–October 28, 1704) was a 17th-century English philosopher. He developed the Lockean social contract, which included the ideas of a state of nature, "government with the consent of the governed," and the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. Locke was also the first to fully develop the idea of tabula rasa.

 

The American Enlightenment is a term sometimes employed to describe the intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States (as they became following the American Revolution). Among the leading intellectual figures of this period are Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

 

The Radical Whigs were "a group of British political commentators" who played a relevant role in the American Revolution. Their republican writings were widely read by the American colonists, who learned from their reading that they should be very watchful for any threats to their liberties.

 

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, journalist, & lawyer, and patriot. One of the United States' most prominent and brilliant early constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, which successfully defended the U.

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

Term of office March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1809

Preceded by John Adams

Succeeded by James Madison

Date of birth April 13, 1743

Place of birth Shadwell, Virginia

Spouse Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson

 

Daniel Shays (c. 1747 - September 29, 1825) was a former captain in the American Revolutionary War. He led a small army of farmers in a revolt against the state government of Massachusetts from 1786-1787.

 

Little is known of his early life; he was probably born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

 

Loyalists (often capitalized L) were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. They were also called Tories or "King's Men". Those Loyalists settling in what would become Canada are often called United Empire Loyalists.

 

The Sons of Liberty was an association of Patriots in the British North American colonies before the American Revolution. The goal of the Sons of Liberty was to stop enforcement of the 1765 Stamp Act by any means, including violence. Members of the Sons of Liberty were generally young and ardent.

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The Founding Fathers of the United States, also known to some Americans as the Fathers of Our Country, the Forefathers, Framers or the Founders are the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution or otherwise participated in the American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.

 

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706–April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of Founders and early political figures and statesmen of the United States. Considered the earliest of the Founders, Franklin was noted for his ingenuity, diversity of interests, and wit, and was extraordinarily influential in the development of the American Revolution despite never holding national elective office.

 

John Hancock (January 12, 1737 (O.S.) – October 8, 1793 (N.S.)) was President of the Continental Congress, and the first person to sign the United States Declaration of Independence. According to legend, he signed his name largely and clearly to be sure King George III could read it, causing his name to become an eponym for "signature".

 

John Adams

 

Term of office March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1801

Preceded by George Washington

Succeeded by Thomas Jefferson

Date of birth October 30, 1735

Place of birth Braintree, Massachusetts

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Thomas Jefferson

 

Term of office March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1809

Preceded by John Adams

Succeeded by James Madison

Date of birth April 13, 1743

Place of birth Shadwell, Virginia

Spouse Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson

 

Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732–June 19, 1794) was the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from November 30, 1784 to November 22, 1785. He was preceded in office by Thomas Mifflin and succeeded by John Hancock.

 

James Madison

 

Term of office March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1817

Preceded by Thomas Jefferson

Succeeded by James Monroe

Date of birth March 16, 1751

Place of birth Port Conway, Virginia

Spouse Dolley Madison

 

John Dickinson (November 13, 1732–February 14, 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Jones Neck in St. Jones Hundred, Kent County, Delaware; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.

 

Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. He was also the cousin of another revolutionary and a future president of the Unites States of America, John Adams, one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776).

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William Molineux (1716 – October 1774) was an American merchant best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A member of the Sons of Liberty, he organized the Tea Party along with Samuel Adams, and served as the group's spokesman during protests.

 

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737–June 8 1809), intellectual, scholar, and idealist, is widely recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A radical pamphleteer, Paine anticipated and helped foment the American Revolution through his powerful writings, most notably Common Sense, an incendiary tract advocating independence from Great Britain.

 

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, journalist, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most prominent and brilliant early constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, which successfully defended the U.

 

This is about the 18th-century philosopher; Richard Price is also the name of a screenwriter and a history professor at the College of William and Mary.

 

Richard Price (February 23, 1723 – April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political philosopher.

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Paul Revere (December 22,1734 or January 1, 1735 – May 10, 1818) an American silversmith of French descent and a patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Immortalized after his death for his role as a messenger in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Revere was a prosperous and well-known craftsman who was born in the class of tradesmen yet yearned to advance to the class of gentleman.

 

This is a list of people who were involved in some important or notable way with the American Revolution and/or the American Revolutionary War. IE the Soldiers

American Patriot military

 

* Ethan Allen

* Benedict Arnold

* Horatio Gates

* Nathanael Greene

* Alexander Hamilton

* John Paul Jones

All the others were patriots not soldiers