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American Revolutionary War
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Clockwise frae tap left
:
Battle o Bunker Hill
, Daith o
Montgomery
at the
Battle o Quebec
,
Battle o Cowpens
,
"Moonlight Battle"
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Date
| Aprile 19, 1775 ? September 3, 1783
(8 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
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Location
| Eastren North Americae,
Gibraltar
,
Balearic Islands
, Central Americae;
French, Dutch, an British colonial possessions in the
Indian subcontinent
, Africae an elsewhere;
European coastal watters,
Caribbean Sea
,
Atlantic
an Indian Oceans
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Result
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American independence
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Territorial
changes
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Britain loses aurie east o Mississippi River an sooth o Great Lakes & St. Lawrence River tae independent Unitit States & tae Spain; Spain gains
East Florida
,
Wast Florida
an
Minorca
; Britain cedes
Tobago
an
Senegal
tae Fraunce.
Dutch Republic cedes
Negapatnam
tae Britain.
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Belligerents
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Unitit States
Fraunce
(1778?83)
Spain
(1779?83)
Dutch Republic
(1780?83)
Co-belligerents:
Mysore
(1779?84)
Vermont
(1777?83)
Oneida
Tuscarora
Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
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Great Breetain
Co-belligerents
Onondaga
Mohawk
Cayuga
Seneca
Cherokee
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Commanders an leaders
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George Washington
Nathanael Greene
Horatio Gates
Richard Montgomery
†
Daniel Morgan
Henry Knox
Benedict Arnold
(Defectit)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Marquis de La Fayette
Comte de Rochambeau
Comte de Grasse
Duc de Crillon
Bailli de Suffren
Bernardo de Galvez
Luis de Cordova
Juan de Langara
Hyder Ali
Tipu Sultan
...full leet
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Lord North
Sir William Howe
Thomas Gage
Sir Henry Clinton
Lord Cornwallis
(POW)
Sir Guy Carleton
John Burgoyne
(POW)
George Eliott
Benedict Arnold
George Rodney
Richard Howe
Sir Hector Munro
Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Joseph Brant
...full leet
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Strenth
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At Hicht:
35,000 Continentals
44,500 Militia
5,000
Continental Navy
sailors (at hicht in 1779)
[1]
53 ships (active service at some pynt during the war)
[1]
12,000 French (in Americae)
~60,000 French an Spainyie (in Europe)
[2]
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At Hicht:
56,000 Breetish
78
Ryal Navy
ships in 1775
[1]
171,000 Sailors
[3]
30,000 Germans
[4]
50,000 Lyalists
[5]
13,000 Natives
[6]
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Casualties an losses
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American:
25,000 dead
- 8,000 in battle
- 17,000 bi ither causes
Tot American casualties:
up tae 50,000 dead an woondit
[7]
Allies:
6,000± French an Spainyie (in Europe)
2,000 French (in Americae)
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20,000± Soldiers frae the Breetish airmy dead an woondit
19,740 sailors dead (1,240 in Battle)
[3]
42,000 sailors desertit
[3]
7,554 German dead
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The
American Revolutionary War
(1775?1783), the
American War o Unthirldom
,
[N 1]
or simply the
Revolutionary War
in the Unitit States, began as a war atween the
Kinrick o Great Breetain
an the
Thirteen Colonies
, but gradually grew intae a
warld war
atween Breetain on ane side an the newly furmed
Unitit States
,
Fraunce
,
Netherlands
, an
Spain
on the ither. American unthirldon wis achieved an European pouers recognized the unthirldom o the Unitit States, wi mixed results for the ither naitions involved.
[N 2]
- ↑
Breetish writers generally favor "American War o Unthirldom", "American Rebellion", or "War o American Unthirldom". See Omohundro Institute o Early American History an Culture,
Bibliography
at the
Michigan State University
for uisage in teetles.
- ↑
In this airticle, indwallers o the thirteen colonies that supportit the American Revolution are primarily referred tae as "Americans", wi occasional references tae "Patriots", "Whigs", "Rebels" or "Revolutionaries". Colonists who supported the Breetish in opposin the Revolution are referred tae as "Lyalists" or "Tories". The geographical aurie o the thirteen colonies is eften referred tae simply as "America".
- ↑
a
b
c
Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole. A Companion to the American Revolution (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), p. 328.
- ↑
Montero
[
whit? clarification needit
]
p. 356
- ↑
a
b
c
Mackesy (1964), pp. 6, 176 (British seamen)
- ↑
A. J. Berry,
A Time of Terror
(2006) p. 252
- ↑
Claude, Van Tyne,
The Loyalists in the American Revolution
(1902) pp. 182?3.
- ↑
Greene and Pole (1999), p. 393; Boatner (1974), p. 545
- ↑
American dead and wounded: Shy, pp. 249?50. The lower figure for number of wounded comes from Chambers, p. 849.