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September 7 – American Revolution: World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. September 11 – American Revolution: The British and Americans meet at the Staten Island Peace Conference seeking to end the ...
June 13 – Elizabeth Scott, British-American poet and Christian hymnwriter (b. 1708) June 20 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor, manufacturer (b. 1704) July 7 – Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693) July 10 – Richard Peters, English-born American clergyman (b. 1704) July 15 – Richard Bampfylde, British politician (b ...
July 2 – American Revolution: The final (despite minor revisions) U.S. Declaration of Independence is written. The full Continental Congress passes the Lee Resolution. July 3 – American Revolution: British troops first land on Staten Island, which will become the longest occupied land for the duration of the conflict.
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 was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
Leaders of the American Revolution were colonial separatist leaders who originally sought more autonomy as British subjects, but later assembled to support the Revolutionary War, which ended British colonial rule over the colonies, establishing their independence as the United States of America in July 1776.
America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814757802. JSTOR j.ctt9qg7q2. Nevins, Allan (1927). The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775–1789. Macmillan. ISBN 9780598500663. Archived from the original on 2008-02-21; Norton, Mary Beth (2020). 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
Stephen Lucas called the Declaration of Independence "one of the best-known sentences in the English language." [7] Historian Joseph Ellis wrote that it contains "the most potent and consequential words in American history". [8] The passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.
The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the uniting of the Thirteen English Colonies and creation of the United States in 1776, during the Revolutionary War.