| 单词 | revolutionary war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRevolutionary War Revolutionary War n. (also with lower-case intials) U.S. History the War of Independence (1775–83) fought by the American colonies against British rule; cf. American Revolution n. at American n. and adj. Compounds 3a and revolution n. 9c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 a1784 P. Van Cortlandt Rep. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) II. 483 Losses during the Revolutionary War. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom lxvi. 237 The leaves of Ceanothus americanus were used during the revolutionary war as a substitute for tea, and hence it is called New Jersey Tea. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 26/1 It was a compensation to Connecticut residents for property that had been burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. 2008 E. G. Burrows Forgotten Patriots viii. 203 The Revolutionary War was in many respects a civil war, during which an estimated 50,000 Tories took up arms to maintain British rule. < as lemmas |
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