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- A 10 fireplane (talk · contribs)
- Bedford (talk · contribs)
- BusterD (talk · contribs)
- Cdtew (talk · contribs) The Southern Campaign; United Empire Loyalists and Loyalist militia commanders/units
- Cdtuba (talk · contribs)
- Cunobeline (talk · contribs) The Southern Campaign especially Royal Regiment of Artillery related.
- Dashiellx (talk · contribs)
- Djmaschek (talk · contribs)
- Donner60 (talk · contribs) (mainly battles, biographies, citations))
- Euryalus (talk · contribs) (naval warfare)
- The Founders Intent (talk · contribs)
- G._Moore (talk · contribs) (North Carolina military units and biographies of commanders)
- GELongstreet (talk · contribs) (units, biographies, orders of battle, minor fixes and additions)
- GenQuest (talk · contribs) (historically accurate place names and dating; territorial and state border developments; grammar and proper English.)
- Kevin Myers (talk · contribs) (particularly the western theater—Clark and Boone and all that)
- Ledalion (talk · contribs)
- Magicpiano (talk · contribs) (mainly Boston campaign, Invasion of Canada (1775), miscellaneous events in and around New England.)
- Michael Jester (talk · contribs)
- North Shoreman (talk · contribs)
- Relativity (talk · contribs) Anything that has to do with Founding Fathers, battles, and Benedict Arnold.
- Rovenrat (talk · contribs)
- Supergodzilla2090 (talk · contribs)
- TiMike (talk · contribs)
- TomStar81 (talk · contribs)
- Professor Penguino (talk · contribs)
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- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Company of Select Marksmen
- Requested articles
- Johann von Hanxleden • Claude-Anne de Rouvroy de Saint Simon • Juan Manuel Cagigal y Monserrat
- Expansion needed
- Quebec in the American Revolution; many existing "<State> in/during the American Revolution" articles • Hercules Mulligan
- Images needed
- 1780 Black Camp Rebellion • Albemarle Barracks • Battle of Lenud's Ferry • Battle of Wetzell's Mill • Carleton's Raid • Cortlandt Skinner • Daniel Waters (minuteman) • Fort Dayton • Fort Independence (Vermont) • HM galley Pigot • John Swift (general) • King's Royal Regiment of New York • Matthias Ogden • Samuel Holden Parsons • Volunteers of Ireland • Francis McLean (British Army officer)
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- Battles in {{Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Gulf Coast}} • Peter Francisco • Aaron Burr • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis • Continental Army
- Translation needed
- Add an article here!
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Did you know
- 17 Apr 2024 – Boot Monument (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Relativity (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 16 Apr 2024 – George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Hog Farm (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 29 Mar 2024 – West Point, New York (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Relativity (t · c); see discussion
- Encyclopedias
- Blanco, Richard L. and Paul J. Sanborn, eds. The American Revolution, 1775–1783: An Encyclopedia. 2 volumes. New York: Garland, 1993. ISBN 0-8240-5623-X.
- Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Revised ed. New York: McKay, 1974. ISBN 0-8117-0578-1.
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2006. ISBN 1-85109-408-3.
- Selesky, Harold E., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution: Library of Military History. 2 volumes. Detroit: Scribner's, 2006. ISBN 0-684-31513-0.
- Biographical dictionaries
- Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner's, 1928–64. 11 volumes.
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 15 volumes to date. University of Toronto Press, 1966–. Online version.
- Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, eds. American National Biography. 26 vols to date. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0195206355.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004–. 60 volumes to date. Available online in some large libraries.
- Purcell, L. Edward. Who Was Who in the American Revolution. New York: Facts on File, 1993. ISBN 0-8160-2107-4.
- Continental Army organization
- Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. New, enlarged, and revised edition. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914. Available on Google Book Search.
- Wright, Robert K. The Continental Army. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1983. Available, in part, online from the U.S. Army website.
- British Army organization
- Curtis, Edward, Organization of the British Army in the American Revolution, 1926 Can be found online here
- Katcher, Philip, Encyclopaedia of British, Provincial and German Army Units 1775-1783, 1973, ISBN 0811705420
- Army Lists, 1775-1783
- A List of general and staff officers on the establishment in North America, 1755-1782
- Pictures
A number of national libraries, and several large city public libraries have digital collections that include historic maps, and images of notable people.
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Boston Public Library's Norman B. Leventhal Map Center
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- British Library Online Gallery
- Gallica and Gallica2 at the French National Library
- Canadian Archives
- IRIS at the Quebec National Library and Archive
- National Library of Australia Digital Collection also a small number of period maps
- Darlington Map Collection at the University of Pittsburgh