The Revolutionary War ended with an American victory in 1783, due in large part to financial and military aid from France.

Truman written by popular historian David McCullough. In 1776, the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, officially announcing their intentions to secede from the British Empire. Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. A non-academic, McCullough was not loved by all reviewers, who accused him of avoiding the harder truths about his subjects and of placing storytelling above analysis.

By the 1770s, this movement had erupted into a full-on war of rebellion. By the late 1760s, there was broad support among Americans for an expulsion of British troops from America and a return to what had been the status quo prior to the French and Indian War. The British crown also increased its military presence in America, often forcing American families to provide food and lodging for British soldiers in their own homes, and at their own expense. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary 'man from Missouri' who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history. Following the French and Indian War, which lasted from 1754 to 1763, the British Empire began to tighten controls over its American colonies, instituting heavy taxes (most infamously the Stamp Act of 1765). 'In private,' David McCullough writes in 'Truman,' his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, 'Truman was a man who still, out of old habits of the mouth, could use an antisemitic slur or, in a. The primary historical event of 1776 is, of course, the Revolutionary War.

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