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List of conflicts in the British America is a timeline of events that includes Indian wars, battles, skirmishes massacres and other related items that occurred in Britain's American territory up to 1783 when British America was formally ended by the Treaty of Paris and replaced by British North America and the United States.
Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 121 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
Portuguese victory in South America and Africa; 1625 1630 Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630) England. Support: United Provinces; Spain: Status quo ante bellum. Spain seeks and signs peace treaty with England in light of imminent war with France; Treaty of Madrid, similar to previous Anglo-Spanish treaty although somewhat less strict regarding trade
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed 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.
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140289848. Shinsuke, Satsuma (2013). Britain and Colonial Maritime War in the Early Eighteenth Century. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1843838623. Webb, Stephen (2013). Marlborough's America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300178593.
The war is named for the alliance signed between Austria and the Triple Alliance of Great Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic against Spain on 2 August 1718. [5] Savoy entered the alliance on 8 November, despite fighting Spain in Sicily since 1 July. [2] Inversely, the Dutch Republic did not declare war on Spain until August 1719. [3]
The Imperial edict of declaration of war by the Empire of Japan on the United States and the British Empire (Kyūjitai: 米國及英國ニ對スル宣戰ノ詔書) was published on 8 December 1941 (Japan time; 7 December in the US), 7.5 hours after Japanese forces started an attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacks on ...