[Ads-l] Antedating of "American Revolution" and "Revolution" (OED sense 9.c.)

[Shapiro, Fred]

American Revolution (OED 1779), revolution (OED, 9.c., 1784)


1778 _Evening Post and General Advertiser_ (Boston, Mass.), 28 Nov. 1/1 (America's Historical Newspapers)  Carolinians! heretofore you were bound -- by the American Revolution you are now free.


Fred Shapiro

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