The American Revolution (TRIH eps 347-350)
1775 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome Professor Adam Smith (Edward Osborne Professor of History, Oxford) for a scene-setting episode on the American War of Independence. They survey the prosperous, self-governing nature of the thirteen mainland colonies, the impact of the Seven Years' War (and its North American theatre, the French and Indian War), and the new British military and fiscal presence after 1763. Smith explains metropolitan concerns — frontier order, Native American alli...
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Around 1775
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)