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:Burned villages and crops, murdered chiefs, divided councils and civil wars, migrations, towns and forts choked with refugees, economic disruption, breaking of ancient traditions, losses in battle and to disease and hunger, betrayal to their enemies, all made the American Revolution one of the darkest periods in American Indian history.<ref>Calloway (1995) p. 290</ref>
:Burned villages and crops, murdered chiefs, divided councils and civil wars, migrations, towns and forts choked with refugees, economic disruption, breaking of ancient traditions, losses in battle and to disease and hunger, betrayal to their enemies, all made the American Revolution one of the darkest periods in American Indian history.<ref>Calloway (1995) p. 290</ref>
The British, however, did not give up their forts in the west until 1796 and kept alive the dream of one day forming a satellite Indian nation in what is now the Ohio to Wisconsin part of the Midwest. That hostile goal was one of the causes of the [[War of 1812]].<ref>Dwight L. Smith, "A North American Neutral Indian Zone: Persistence of a British Idea" ''Northwest Ohio Quarterly'' 1989 61(2-4): 46-63</ref><ref>Francis M. Carroll, [http://books.google.com/books?id=1AjlS20Q5J8C&pg=PA24&dq=barrier+intitle:Good+intitle:and+intitle:Wise+intitle:Measure+intitle:The+intitle:Search+intitle:for+intitle:the+intitle:Canadian-American+inauthor:Francis+inauthor:M+inauthor:Carroll&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2009&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES ''A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842''], 2001, page 23</ref>
The British, however, did not give up their forts in the west until 1796 and kept alive the dream of one day forming a satellite Indian nation in what is now the Ohio to Wisconsin part of the Midwest. That hostile goal was one of the causes of the [[War of 1812]].<ref>Dwight L. Smith, "A North American Neutral Indian Zone: Persistence of a British Idea" ''Northwest Ohio Quarterly'' 1989 61(2-4): 46-63</ref><ref>Francis M. Carroll, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1AjlS20Q5J8C&pg=PA24&dq=barrier+intitle:Good+intitle:and+intitle:Wise+intitle:Measure+intitle:The+intitle:Search+intitle:for+intitle:the+intitle:Canadian-American+inauthor:Francis+inauthor:M+inauthor:Carroll&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2009&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES ''A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842''], 2001, page 23</ref>
==The Southern Campaigns of 1778-81==
==The Southern Campaigns of 1778-81==
* Stokesbury, James L. ''A Short History of the American Revolution'' 304p. [http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-American-Revolution/dp/068812304X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199297460&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Stokesbury, James L. ''A Short History of the American Revolution'' 304p. [http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-American-Revolution/dp/068812304X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199297460&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Symonds, Craig L. ''A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution'' (1986); good on battles
* Symonds, Craig L. ''A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution'' (1986); good on battles
* Wrong, George M. ''Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire.'' 1935. by Canadian scholar [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2704 online edition free from Gutenberg]
* Wrong, George M. ''Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire.'' 1935. by Canadian scholar [https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2704 online edition free from Gutenberg]
* Commager, Henry Steele, and Richard Morris, eds. ''The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants'' (1967); excellent collection of primary sources
* Commager, Henry Steele, and Richard Morris, eds. ''The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants'' (1967); excellent collection of primary sources
* Library of America. ''The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence'' (1995) 850pp [http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=152§ion=toc table of contents], primary sources
* Library of America. ''The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence'' (1995) 850pp [http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=152§ion=toc table of contents], primary sources
* [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html#F. ''Web Sources for Military History'' ed. by Richard Jensen]
* [http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html#F. ''Web Sources for Military History'' ed. by Richard Jensen]
* [http://www.benjaminclevelandchapter.org/historical.html links to many sources]
* [http://www.benjaminclevelandchapter.org/historical.html links to many sources]
* Virginia State Dept. of Education. ''The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783'' [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30058/30058-h/30058-h.htm online edition]; 80pp; with student projects
* Virginia State Dept. of Education. ''The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30058/30058-h/30058-h.htm online edition]; 80pp; with student projects
== References ==
== References ==