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Decade.png 1770s: )    Year.png 1779 Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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The spinning mule is perfected by Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton
year 1779

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Event

EventStartEnd
American War of Independence19 April 17753 September 1783

 

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References

  1. Robert W. Smith, Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775-1815 (Potomac Books, 2012)
  2. William Nester, The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic (Potomac Books, 2011) p53
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800