The America Revolution
In 1776, a pack of maniacs later known as “the Founding Fathers” declared their little British colony to be an independent nation, and the world has been kind of a mixed bag ever since. The founding of America is one of the most mythologized events in history, which means we've definitely got an article debunking Revolutionary War myths. We're also going to tell you about the cooler version of Paul Revere, Sybil Ludington. And we'd say brace yourselves, but this is Cracked dot com. You knew something wild was coming. Come on, you knew. But were you expecting cannibalism? No! [Monty Python voice] No one expects cannibalism in the American Revolution!
6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons.
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4092 Sybil Ludington: The Less Famous, But More Rad, Paul Revere
In 1777, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles by horseback to rally American troops.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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The Cannibalism Incident On The Road To The American Revolution
Charles Langlade, "The Father of Wisconsin," lived a rather R-rated life in the 1700s.
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- By Charles Smith
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'The Public Universal Friend,' Or The 1776 US History Story You Never Learned In School
A lot of things happened in 1776, including the origin story of the America's (probably) first nonbinary doomsday prophet.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Slave Who Brought French Food to America
Thank James Hemings the next time you eat french fries.
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5 Stories That Prove The Founding Fathers Were Total Maniacs
We hold these truths to be self-evident: these guys were weirdos.
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- By E. Reid Ross, E.M. Caris, S. Aslam, Christian Markle, RG Jordan, Tony T
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20 Facts To Understand America (Or Not)
The following stats will tell you more about America than you probably want to know.
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- By Jason Pargin
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6 Amazing Facts That'll Change The Way You Look At History
Historical eras we think of as completely separate mix and overlap in mind-blowing ways.
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- By E.M. Caris
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5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes
Bloody, heroic and seasoned with all kinds of awesome, the entire eight-year period was dripping with fantastic stories and scrappy underdog moments. (Or was it?)
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- By J. Wisniewski
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5 Minor Screw-Ups That Created The Modern World
We continue our crusade to convince the world that all of the most important events in history turned on some kind of ridiculous accident.
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5 Hilarious Failures in the History of American Revolutions
Independence Day affords every American the opportunity to honor their forefathers; those ordinary men who rallied together in a unified stand against tyranny, injustice and the oppressing forces of that mother ship that blew up the White House.
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6 Assassination Attempts that Almost F#@cked the World
Some assassination attempts have come dangerously close to changing the world forever. We're not saying we'd be living in a land of breakdancing dinosaurs and chocolate flavored rainbows if a few things had gone the other way ... we're just saying we might all be Nazis.
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