“The Revolutionary War, between the American colonies and the British Empire and others, was the great prologue to the Restoration. The American colonists ‘were delivered by the power of God out of the hand of all other nations.’ In fact, the God of this land has declared that he ‘redeemed the land by the shedding of blood’ (D&C 101:80)—just as he redeems all worthy souls by the shedding of his own blood” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:60).