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February 26 – The United States Continental Army's Corps of Engineers is disbanded. March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day in Boston , Massachusetts. March 15 – Newburgh Conspiracy : A potential uprising in the Continental Army stationed at Newburgh, New York , is defused when George Washington asks the officers to support the ...
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.
On September 3, 1783, the British signed the Treaty of Paris, granting the United States nearly all the territory east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes. About 60,000 Loyalists migrated to other British territories in Canada and elsewhere, but the great majority remained in the United States.
The United States (blue) was bordered by the United Kingdom (yellow) to the north and Spain (brown) to the south and west. In the decade after the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States benefited from a long period of peace in Europe, as no country posed a direct threat and immediate threat to the United States.
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
France is the first foreign country to recognise the flag of the United States, on the ship of John Paul Jones (February 14) France declares war on Great Britain, starting the Anglo-French War (1778–1783) and formally allying with the United States (March 17) Battle of Quinton's Bridge (March 18)
Articles relating to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, where American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the Thirteen Colonies, which had been part of colonial British America, to be free, sovereign and independent states.