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1775 Pugachev's Rebellion Russian Empire: Cossack and peasant rebels Tatar and Bashkir nobles: 1774 1774 Lord Dunmore's War: Colony of Virginia: Shawnees Mingos: 1775 1775 Rising of the Priests: Order of Saint John: Clergy 1775 1776 Burmese–Siamese War (1775–1776) Siam: Burma: 1775 1782 First Anglo-Maratha War: British East India Company ...
The supply system that would allow the Russians to advance into the Balkans during the war with the Ottomans in 1787–1792, Marshal Alexander Suvorov to campaign effectively in Italy and Switzerland in 1798–1799, and for the Russians to fight across Germany and France in 1813–1814 to take Paris was created directly in response to 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 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.
1775–1783: American Revolutionary War as Thirteen Colonies revolt; Britain has no major allies. It is the first successful colonial revolt in European history. [25] 1783: Treaty of Paris ends Revolutionary War; British give generous terms to US with boundaries as British North America on north, Mississippi River on west, Florida
(1765–1775) United Colonies (1775–1781) United States (1781–1783) Outcome: Independence of the United States of America from Great Britain; Dissolution of British America, formation of British North America and Spanish Florida; End of the First British Empire; Began the Age of Revolution; World's first federal republic founded on the ...
1754 – Outbreak of French and Indian War. French build Fort Duquesne. Albany Congress, where plans of colonial union are unveiled. Columbia University founded as King's College by George II Royal Charter. 1755 – Braddock Expedition. 1755–58 – Expulsion of the Acadians. 1756 – Beginning of Seven Years' War in Europe. Battle of Fort Oswego.
On July 4, 1776, as the war continued, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. [30] Britain's diplomacy failed in the war—it had support of only a few small German states that hired out auxiliaries. Most of Europe was officially neutral, but the elites and public opinion typically favoured the American Patriots as in Sweden [31] and ...
The Battle of Quebec (French: Bataille de Québec) was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses.