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The Frontier War for American Independence. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0077-1. OCLC 260092836. Pennington, Edward (July 1930). "East Florida in the American Revolution, 1775–1778". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly. 9 (1). Florida Historical Society: 24–46. JSTOR 30149717. Piecuch, Jim (2008). Three Peoples ...
The French and Indian War, part of the wider global conflict known as the Seven Years' War, ended with the 1763 Peace of Paris, which expelled France from their possessions in New France. [45] The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was designed to refocus colonial expansion north into Nova Scotia and south into Florida , with the Mississippi River as ...
The Peace of Paris (1783) ended the Revolutionary War and returned all of Florida to Spanish control, but without specifying the boundaries. The Spanish wanted the expanded northern boundary Britain had made to West Florida, while the new United States demanded the old boundary at the 31st parallel north.
July 20, 1775: New York: Patriot victory: Sons of Liberty capture storehouse and magazine [8] Battle of Gloucester: August 8, 1775: Massachusetts: Patriot victory [9] Raid on the Battery: August 23, 1775: New York: Patriot victory: 23 royal cannon from The Battery were taken under fire from HMS Asia offshore [10] Siege of Fort St. Jean ...
(1765–1775) United Colonies (1775–1781) United States (1781–1783) Outcome: Independence of the United States of America from Great Britain; Dissolution of British America, formation of British North America and Spanish Florida; End of the First British Empire; Began the Age of Revolution; World's first federal republic founded on the ...
US-allied victory - The American Revolution started as a civil war within the British Empire. [nb 1] It became a larger international war in 1778 once France joined. [nb 2] Treaty of Paris (1783) Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America and the Thirteen Colonies. President of the Continental Congress in American ...
The Gulf Coast campaign or the Spanish conquest of West Florida in the American Revolutionary War, was a series of military operations primarily directed by the governor of Spanish Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, against the British province of West Florida.
1775 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1775th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 775th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1775, the ...