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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.
1774–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion; 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War; 1778–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession; 1784 Kettle War; 1784–1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan; 1785 Battle of the Sunja; 1787 Dutch Patriot Revolt; 1787–1792 Russo-Ottoman War; 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War; 1789–1802 French Revolutionary Wars ...
1775 Pugachev's Rebellion Russian Empire: Cossack and peasant rebels Tatar and Bashkir nobles: 1774 1774 Lord Dunmore's War: Colony of Virginia: Shawnees Mingos: 1775 1775 Rising of the Priests: Order of Saint John: Clergy 1775 1776 Burmese–Siamese War (1775–1776) Siam: Burma: 1775 1782 First Anglo-Maratha War: British East India Company ...
The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (Dutch: Vierde Engels-Nederlandse Oorlog; 1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.The war, contemporary with the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), broke out over British and Dutch disagreements on the legality and conduct of Dutch trade with Britain's enemies in that war.
The British and German troops were accorded the traditional honors of war as they marched out to surrender. The troops formed the Convention Army, named after the convention that granted them safe passage back to Europe. However, the Continental Congress revoked the convention, and the Convention Army was kept in captivity until the end of the war.
The young French general, and future ruler of France, Napoleon Bonaparte The fall of the ancient Republic of Venice was the result of a sequence of events that followed the French Revolution (Fall of the Bastille, 14 July 1789), and the subsequent French Revolutionary Wars that pitted the First French Republic against the monarchic powers of Europe, allied in the First Coalition (1792 ...
The Peace of Paris of 1783 was the set of treaties that ended the American Revolutionary War.On 3 September 1783, representatives of King George III of Great Britain signed a treaty in Paris with representatives of the United States of America—commonly known as the Treaty of Paris (1783)—and two treaties at Versailles with representatives of King Louis XVI of France and King Charles III of ...
However, his absence from Italy had allowed the outbreak of the revolt known as the Veronese Easters on 17 April, which was put down eight days later. Although Britain remained at war with France, this effectively ended the First Coalition.