Was the American Revolution a war that began on a single bloody day? Quite frankly, it was not. It could not have been, at least if you consider the war to have started at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Although the idea of revolution and freedom had been brewing in the minds of the oppressed since the first time a tyrant claimed his right to rule, the war for American independence did not start until America came to exist. Prior to the Declaration of Independence the fight with Britain was simply a revolution, with the colonists having hopes of changing how they were treated and earning the freedoms that were defined by the Laws of Nature. Afterwards, it was a war against Britain, a war to defend their home country from the English invasion. A revolution and a war are two entirely different forms of aggression, the former an internal struggle, the latter an external one.

If you disregard the literary meanings of the words revolution and war, and consider them one in the same for

Hanes III, William Travis. World History, Continuity & Change. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1997.

To look upon it in a slightly more recent light, one could point out many occurrences of revolutionary actions by the colonists well before they were at open war with Britain. Most prominently perhaps would be the Boston Tea Party, an extreme way for the colonists to show their displeasure of England's granting of exclusive tea trading rights to the East India Company(Class notes). They also formed the Son's of Liberty, a radical group of men filled with an anti-British attitude that opposed Britain's near every action that concerned the colonies(Class notes).

The American Revolution could be traced so far back in history that the date on which one could say it all began would seem ridiculous. You might argue that it began with Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, a book that leaned heavily upon the ideas of popular sovereignty and free will (Hanes 460). But isn't it true to say Rousseau was largely influenced by John Loc

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