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Akin to the American view that it was a "Second War of Independence" for the United States, the war was also somewhat of a war of independence for Canada. [281] Before the war Canada was a mix of French Canadians, native-born British subjects, loyalists and Americans who migrated there.
Fort Caroline. 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.
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 comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
According to Historian Andrew Lambert, the British had one main goal as a response to the invasion of the Canada, that was the prosecution of war against the United states and to defend British North America: "The British had no interest in fighting this war, and once it began, they had one clear goal: keep the United States from taking any part of Canada". [12]
The War Hawks expressed hostility towards Great Britain due to a variety of issues. [13] They not only accused the British government of overstepping boundaries regarding its restriction of American trade during the Napoleonic Wars, but also argued that British control of Canada presented a security risk to the US.
The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War [1]), or the Madawaska War, [2] was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.
British–American War may refer to: American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) War of 1812 (1812–1815) Pig War (1859) (1859) War Plan Red (1920s to 1930s)
The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies in what was then British America. The revolution ultimately culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775.