History & Society
American Revolution
United States history
Category:
History & Society
- Also called:
- United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War
- Date:
- 1775 - September 3, 1783
- Location:
- United States
- Participants:
- Dutch Republic
- France
- loyalist
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
- American colonies
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American Revolution, (1775–83), insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control over colonial affairs after having long adhered to a policy of salutary neglect. Until early in 1778 the conflict was a civil war within the British Empire, but afterward it became an international war as France (in 1778) and ...(100 of 5767 words)