Revolutionary War Plaque - Las Cruces, NM - U.S. Revolutionary War Memorials on Waymarking.com

"Revolutionary War
1775-1783.
Total Served 184000 to 250000
Total US battle deaths 4435

Victory in the French and Indian war proved the undoing of the British empire in North America. The treaty of Paris ceded to the British all territory east of the Mississippi River from Canada to Florida. The War left the British Treasury Empty. The British parliament pressured American colonies to pay for security and governance of this vast expanse. Britain prohibited expansion of settlement into the trans Appalachian west. Parliament enforced navigation cuts, enacted the Gugar Act of 1764 and Stamp act of 1965 to impose duties on imports and exports of colonies.

Resistance by the colonists to these measures led to the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773. The colonies formed a committee of correspondence to organize activities of resistance against the centralization of power by Britain. The first Continental congress assembled in Philadelphia September 17774. Resistance turned to resolution in April 1775 with armed confrontation at Lexington and Concord. Ethan Allen captured the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga in May. The battle of Bunker Hill followed in June. The second continental congress appointed George Washington to command the continental army. In November congress established an American Navy with Esek Hopkins its commodore. Though raw American forces lost many battles, they won critical key engagements.

July 4, 1776. The Continental congress endorsed their declaration of independence from British rule.

June 1778. The British fleet sailed into New York Harbor and was victorious in the Battle of Long Island. Washington's troops repulsed the British at the battle of Harlem Heights. Then clipped out of Manhattan to White Plains , suffered heavy casualties there and cross the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

A key victory for the Americans was achieved at Saratoga in October 1777. The British surrendered 570 troops, prompted by the impressive victory. France officially recognized the Independence of american colonies and granted its support.

Commodore Hopkins attacked British shipping in the Bahamas. Captain John Paul Jones carried the fight to the coasts of Ireland and England.

Other key battles of the revolutionary war occurred at Quebec, Charlston, Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Savanah, Copwens, and Guilford Court House.

British general Cornwallis withdrew his forces to Yorktown, Virginia. French count De Grasse landed 3000 troops joining American soldiers under Marquis de Lafayette to block a Cornwallis retreat by land. General Washington's 9000 men with French General Rochanbeau's 7000 troops were transported by De Grasse to lay down the siege of Yorktown. On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his 8000 men. Dashing hopes of a British victory in America, November 30, 1782 a peace treaty was signed in Paris. In December the last British troops evacuated Charleston, South Carolina. February 1783, Great Britain officially declared an end to hostilities in America. The birth of our nation was at hand.

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