Hurt suggests especially physical injury, often bodily injury attended with pain: a bad hurt from a fall. A wound is usually a physical hurt caused by cutting, shooting, etc., or an emotional hurt: a serious wound in the shoulder; to inflict a wound by betraying someone's trust. 1. benefit.
The American Revolutionary War (1775â1783), also referred to as the American War of Independence and as the Revolutionary War in the United States, was an armed conflict between Great Britain and those thirteen of its North American colonies which after the onset of the war declared independence as the United States of America.
The French and Indian War was the colonial portion of the Seven Years War fought in Europe from 1756 to 1763. It was bloodiest and most widely-fought American war in the 18th century, taking more lives than the American Revolution and involving people on three continents, including the Caribbean. To understand how the French and Indian War pushed the colonists toward independence. 2  To understand the road to the American Revolution. 3  To examine the myths of the American Revolution. 4  To explore the actions that accompanied the colonistsâ transition from resistance to revolution.