For 10 points, name this war whose beginning is chronicled in David McCullough's 1776.
Before his work on the Enlightenment, progressive historian Carl L. Becker proposed a "dual" interpretation of this event."Radical" levelling effects of this event are assessed in a 1992 book by Gordon Wood. Bernard Bailyn assessed the "ideological origins" of this conflict, whose "Rise, Progress, and Termination" was chronicled by Mercy Otis Warren. Foreign powers used this conflict as a pretext to form the First League of Armed Neutrality. The lead-up to and unfolding of this conflict takes up the last five volumes of George Bancroft's History. Robert Morris rose to prominence by obtaining foreign funding for this conflict, whose end was assisted by the Comte de Grasse's victory at the Battle of the Chesapeake. For 10 points, name this war whose beginning is chronicled in David McCullough's 1776.
Before his work on the Enlightenment, progressive historian Carl L. Becker proposed a "dual" interpretation of this event."Radical" levelling effects of this event are assessed in a 1992 book by Gordon Wood.
American Revolution [or Revolutionary War; accept any reasonable equivalent involving American Independence; accept History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, or The Radicalism of the American Revolution] &lt;Historio/Archaeo&gt;