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Until the war was widened into a global conflict by France's entry in 1778, the war's military activities were primarily directed by the Commander-in-Chief, North America. General Thomas Gage was commander-in-chief of North American forces from 1763 until 1775, and governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1774 to 1776.
During the American Revolutionary War, Delaware raised several units of militia in support of the Patriot side of the war. In the War of 1812, all of the Delaware volunteer units saw combat at Lewes, where they comprised the majority of an American force that drove off a Royal Navy squadron seeking control of the Delaware River. [5]
The Continental Army was the national army of first the Thirteen Colonies, and then the independent United States, during the American Revolutionary War, established by a resolution of the Congress on June 14, 1775, three days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, where it saw its first action under that title.
Biography portal; United States portal; This is a category of enlisted soldiers of the Continental Army.For commissioned officers, see Category:Continental Army officers.. Many soldiers who fought for the United States in the Revolutionary War were in state militias rather than the Continental Army.
This category includes officers and soldiers who served as Patriots in militias or other state-controlled units during the American Revolutionary War, sorted by state (if known). Those colonists who fought in units on the British side are categorized under Category:Loyalists in the American Revolution .
The American Revolutionary War began at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, at a time when the colonial revolutionaries had no standing army. Previously, each colony had relied upon the militia (which was made up of part-time citizen-soldiers) for local defense; or the raising of temporary provincial troops during such ...
Frank Buckles, the last surviving veteran of World War I, died in February of 2011 at age 110 in his West Virginia home. Stark County men who fought in America's previous wars similarily have been ...
Fictional American Revolutionary War veterans (4 P) A. American Revolution chaplains (13 P) B. British military personnel of the American Revolutionary War (6 C, 1 P) F.