[Thomas Jefferson] was undoubtedly complicated. He mingled the loftiest visions with astute backroom politicking. He spared himself nothing and was a compulsive shopper, yet he extolled the simple yeoman farmer who was free from the lures of the marketplace. He hated obsessive money-making, the proliferating banks, and the liberal capitalistic world that emerged in the Northern states in the early nineteenth century, but no one in American did more to bring that about. Although he kept the most tidy and meticulous accounts of his daily transactions, he never added up his profits and losses. He thought public debts were the curse of a healthy state, yet his private debts kept mounting as he borrowed and borrowed again to meet his rising expenditures. He was a sophisticated man of the world who loved no place better than his remote mountaintop home in Virginia. This slaveholding aristocrat ended up becoming the most important apostle for liberty and democracy in American history.
Battles
Battle Sort descending | Location | End Date |
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Battle of Bennington | New York | 16-Aug-1777 |
Battle of Brandywine | Pennsylvania | 11-Sep-1777 |
Battle of Bunker Hill | Massachusetts | 17-Jun-1775 |
Battle of Camden | South Carolina | 16-Aug-1780 |
Battle of Chesapeake Capes | Virginia — Chesapeake Bay | 05-Sep-1781 |
Battle of Cowpens | South Carolina | 07-Nov-1781 |
Battle of Eutaw Springs | South Carolina | 08-Sep-1781 |
Battle of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton | New York | 06-Oct-1777 |
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga | New York | 10-May-1775 |
Battle of Fort Washington | New York | 16-Nov-1776 |
Battle of Germantown | Pennsylvania | 04-Oct-1777 |
Battle of Groton Heights | Connecticut | 06-Sep-1781 |
Battle of Guilford Courthouse | North Carolina | 15-Mar-1781 |
Battle of Harlem Heights | New York | 16-Sep-1776 |
Battle of Kings Mountain | South Carolina | 07-Oct-1780 |
Battle of Lexington and Concord | Massachusetts | 19-Apr-1775 |
Battle of Long Island | New York | 27-Aug-1776 |
Battle of Monmouth | New Jersey | 28-Jun-1778 |
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge | North Carolina | 27-Oct-1776 |
Battle of Oriskany | New York | 06-Aug-1777 |
Battle of Princeton | New Jersey | 03-Jan-1777 |
Battle of Quebec | Quebec, Canada | 31-Dec-1775 |
Battle of Red Bank (Fort Mercer) | New Jersey | 22-Oct-1777 |
Battle of Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 08-Feb-1778 |
Battle of Savannah | Georgia | 29-Dec-1778 |
Battle of Stony Point | New York | 15-Jul-1779 |
Battle of Trenton | New Jersey | 26-Dec-1776 |
Battle of Valcour Island | New York | 11-Oct-1776 |
Battle of Waxhaws | South Carolina | 29-May-1780 |
Battle of White Plains | New York | 28-Oct-1776 |
Battles of Saratoga | New York | 07-Oct-1777 |
Fortification of Dorchester Heights | Massachusetts | 04-Mar-1776 |
Siege of Charleston | South Carolina | 12-May-1780 |
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga | New York | 06-Jul-1777 |
Siege of Mud Island Fort (Fort Mifflin) | Pennsylvania | 15-Nov-1777 |
Siege of Savannah | Georgia | 20-Oct-1779 |
Siege of Yorktown | Virginia | 19-Oct-1781 |
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)