New site picked for Revolutionary War museum

AP via Intl Herald Tribune ^ | February 14, 2007 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania

A long-planned Revolutionary War museum will be built on private land after years of arguing with the U.S. government over the previous site, museum organizers said Wednesday.

The American Revolution Center would be the United States' first comprehensive look at the Revolutionary War.

The new site is within the boundaries of Valley Forge National Historical Park, the place where George Washington's troops waited out the winter in 1777.

The museum is buying about 130 acres (52 hectares) of land for $7.1 million (€5.4 million) and hopes to begin construction on the $150 million (€114.6 million) museum in the next 18 months, according to Thomas M. Daly, the nonprofit group's president and CEO.

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Daly said the museum could be ready by late 2010 or early 2011.

[Pharmboy]

About time.

[Pharmboy]

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[Pippin]

Took them long enough!

[Red Badger]

What did the British refer to the Revolutionary War as?...........

[AnnaZ]

Rebellion?

[LachlanMinnesota]

This has the potential to be the most important museum in the country, for if it is done correctly, it will emphasize the reasons for the war, the rights being asserted, and the original thoughts and philosophy of the founding fathers...We have lost the ability to communicate these great ideas to the public, and the are now relegated to the back rooms of a very few who still care.

I hope it will be a great enterprise to assist us all to understand our past, and to thereby understand our present and our future.

[Red Badger]

I don't know! They must have called it something! Like the Russians don't call WWII what we do, but call it something like The Great Patriotic War......I wonder what the Japanese call it?.........

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping - for the Revolutionary War historians.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Sounds very good

[sneakers]

Thanks for the ping!

It's about time - I hope they don't mess this up! This is the absolute WRONG place for political correctness!

[azcap]

The British refer to it as "The American Revolution." The British are pretty good about naming their wars. Just name the place or people (Zulu, American, Crimean) and then the kind of war (revolt, uprising, war, etc)

[azcap]

Also called the American "War of Independence"

[Red Badger]

Then why won't they call the "War on Terrorism", the "War on Islamic Terrorists"?.............

[AnnaZ]

From a little googling it seems that Brits refer to it, if at all, as the "American War of Independence". Seems there was a lot of Empire collapsing going on for them at the time, and afterwards, so it is more, for them, a part of a larger story.

[DuncanWaring]

I asked an Englishman that once.

His response was something on the order of "Bloody Colonial Idiocy".

[azcap]

The WOT (sans Islamic) You can thank the Bush Administration for that tag. The British have fought terrorists in Northern Ireland for a century but I don't recall them ever calling that conflict a "War on Terrorism." That is an American abomination.

[Old Professer]

The highway to the future is built upon the bedrock of the past, the present is but a series of construction delays.

[Red Badger]

What do they call the Northern Ireland situation?........

[brityank]

The British refer to it as "The American Revolution." The British are pretty good about naming their wars.

It was taught as "The Colonial War" in my First/Second Form classes, with acknowledgment of the AR. It was also labeled as a Civil War, as they were Brits against Brits.

[billbears]

It was also labeled as a Civil War, as they were Brits against Brits.

Didn't that sort of get confusing with the other Civil War a little over 100 years before?