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February 23 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Spanktown, part of the Forage War; March 5 – Thomas Wharton Jr. is sworn in as the first president of Pennsylvania. March 8 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Pun Hill, part of the Forage War; March 21 – Thomas Johnson is sworn as the first governor of Maryland.
April 13, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Battle of Ridgefield: April 27, 1777: Connecticut: British victory Battle of Thomas Creek: May 17, 1777: East Florida: British victory Meigs Raid: May 24, 1777: New York: Patriot victory Battle of Short Hills: June 26, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: July 5–6, 1777: New ...
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
October 30 – John Hart, American militia officer during King George's War and the French and Indian War (b. 1706) November 1 – Jonathan Hampton, American colonial surveyor (b. 1712) November 6 – Bernard de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1699) November 10 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief (b. c. 1720) November 13 – William Bowyer, English ...
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.
A map of principal campaigns in the American Revolutionary War [268] with British movements in red and American movements in blue; the timeline shows the British won most battles in the war's first half, but Americans won the most in the second. To win their insurrection, Washington and the Continental Army needed to outlast the British will to ...
April: American ports opened to all nations. May: Continental Congress authorizes the drafting of new state constitutions. July 4: Adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. 1776–83 – American Revolution. 1783 – September: Britain signs the Treaty of Paris, recognizing American independence. [3]
American Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, Part 1 (Summer, 1967), pp. 147–165. Shapiro, Eugene Paul. Robert Hunter and the land system of colonial New York : education in Massachusetts in the 1790s : the Middlekauff-Birdsall interpretation reconsidered (thesis/dissertation). 1972.