American Enterprise Institute

The American Revolution and America’s Role in the World

An International Revolution from the Beginning Notes

  1. EyeWitnesstoHistory.com, “Battle at Lexington Green, 1775,” 2001, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lexington.htm.
  2. David Ramsay, The History of the American Revolution, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1789).
  3. Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (Vintage Books, 1997), 47–49.
  4. Robert McPherson, “In Committee for York County, May 30, 1776,” in Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775–1783, ed. William H. Egle (Harrisburg, PA, 1888), 2:545, https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniaser214harruoft/pennsylvaniaser214harruoft/page/544/mode/2up.
  5. McPherson, “In Committee for York County, May 30, 1776.”
  6. See US State Department, Office of the Historian, “The Model Treaty, 1776,” https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/model-treaty.
  7. William Vans Murray to John Adams, October 7, 1798, Founders Online, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3088.
  8. Theodore Sedgwick to Alexander Hamilton, February 7, 1799, Founders Online, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-22-02-0274.
  9. National Archives, “Monroe Doctrine (1823),” https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/monroe-doctrine.
  10. See Raymond K. Bluhm, “Battle of San Juan Hill,” Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-San-Juan-Hill; and Michael Richman, “A ‘Splendid Little War’ Built America’s Empire,” The Washington Post, April 7, 1998, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1998/04/08/a-splendid-little-war-built-americas-empire/0cc1f34f-cfdd-4e93-9c1a-85893e25ebdc/.
  11. Theodore Roosevelt, “Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine,” Teaching American History, December 6, 1904, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/roosevelt-corollary-to-monroe-doctrine/.
  12. US State Department, Office of the Historian, “Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914,” https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal.
  13. US Senate, “Arthur Vandenberg: A Featured Biography,” https://www.senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_Vandenberg.htm.