The American Revolution was won by an armed populace against the British standing army.

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Then I informed him that the house is just a stone's throw from an inn where George Washington stayed during the American Revolution.

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Mr. Saakashvili is an American-educated lawyer who led Georgia's Rose Revolution last year.

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Named for an 18th-century anti-tax uprising on the eve of the American Revolution, the Tea Party demands lower taxes and less government spending.

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In fact, the American Revolution was a fight just a few generations ago against an overbearing government that demanded what could be called economic patriotism.

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In a marketplace that has become exponentially competitive, in which there has been an erosion of key American values, and in which keeping up with the ongoing revolution in information technology is a mere cost of entry, building brands is, well, to put it mildly, a challenge.

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But we forgot that bringing an all-volunteer force into a protracted war hasn't happened since the American Revolution.

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The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.

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Blackburn, an Arlington, Va. collector who is divesting all his guns, accumulated a meticulous assemblage of guns from the American Revolution through the 20th century.

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