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Russia and the American Revolution, the Glossary

During the American Revolution, Russia remained neutral in the conflict between Great Britain and rebelling colonists in Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire.^[1]

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Russian Empire–United States relations

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov (Алексе́й Ильи́ч Чи́риков; 1703 – November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America.

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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Aleuts

Aleuts (Aleuty) are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.

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Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881.

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Alexander Radishchev

Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев; –) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire

The territory of the Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Continental Congress

The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.

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Decembrist revolt

The Decembrist Revolt (translation) was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.

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Diplomacy in the American Revolutionary War

Diplomacy was a central component of the American Revolutionary War and broader American Revolution. Russia and the American Revolution and Diplomacy in the American Revolutionary War are American Revolutionary War.

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First League of Armed Neutrality

The First League of Armed Neutrality was an alliance of European naval powers between 1780 and 1783 which was intended to protect neutral shipping against the British Royal Navy's wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband during the American Revolutionary War and Anglo-French War. Russia and the American Revolution and First League of Armed Neutrality are American Revolutionary War and Russian Empire–United States relations.

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Francis Dana

Francis Dana (June 13, 1743 – April 25, 1811) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Massachusetts.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Great Northern Expedition

The Great Northern Expedition (Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of the largest exploration enterprises in history, mapping most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and some parts of the North American coastline, greatly reducing "white areas" on maps.

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Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army or Russian Imperial Army (Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917.

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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Karl Nesselrode

Karl Robert Reichsgraf von Nesselrode-Ehreshoven, also known as Charles de Nesselrode (Karl Vasilyevich Nesselrode; 14 December 1780 – 23 March 1862), was a Russian diplomat of German descent.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia

The ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Russian Federation.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Menorca

Menorca or Minorca (from smaller island, later Minorica) is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain.

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Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (ləmɐˈnosəf|a.

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Nikita Panin

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (Никита Иванович Панин) was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first 18 years of her reign (1762–1780).

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Nikolay Novikov

Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov (Никола́й Ива́нович Новико́в;, Moscow Governorate – Moscow Governorate) was a Russian writer and philanthropist most representative of his country's Enlightenment.

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Pavel Svinyin

Pavel Petrovich Svinyin or Svinin (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Свиньи́н; 19 June 1787 – 21 April 1839) was a prolific Russian writer, painter, and editor known as a "Russian Munchausen" for many exaggerated accounts of his travels.

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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Петропавловск-Камчатский) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

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Promyshlenniki

The promyshlenniki (промышленники, промышленник, promyshlennik) were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades.

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Robert R. Livingston

Robert Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States.

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Russia–United States relations

Russia and the United States maintain one of the most important, critical, and strategic foreign relations in the world.

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Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

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Russian colonization of North America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas.

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Russian conquest of Siberia

The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1580–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian explorers.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Empire–United States relations

Relations between the Russian Empire and the United States predate the American Revolution, when the Russians began trading with the Thirteen Colonies in violation of the British Navigation Acts.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Siege of Yorktown

The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_the_American_Revolution

Also known as Russia and American Independence, Russia and the American Independence, Russia and the American Revolutionary War, Russia in the American Revolutionary War.

, Thomas Jefferson, Tlingit, United States, Vitus Bering, West Coast of the United States.

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