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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.
An outline of British military history, 1660–1936 (1936). online; Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1993). Fortescue, John William. History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes.
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
British victory Battle of Fort Cumberland: November 10–29, 1776: Nova Scotia: British victory Battle of Fort Washington: November 16, 1776: New York: British victory: British capture 3,000 Americans on Manhattan in one of the most devastating defeats of the Continental Army in the war Battle of Fort Lee: November 20, 1776: New Jersey
16 September – American Revolution: Battle of Harlem Heights – the Continental Army under Washington are victorious against the British on Manhattan. 24 September – first running of the St. Leger Stakes horse race [4] (not yet named), first of the British Classic Races, devised by Anthony St Leger, on Cantley Common at Doncaster.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
Category:Battles involving England (10th century–1707) Category:Battles involving Wales (410–1405) Category:Battles involving Scotland (8th century–1707) Category:Battles involving Great Britain (1707–1800)