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AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783)

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of
Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen
British colonies on the North American continent (as well as some naval
conflict). The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution,
whereby the colonists overthrew British rule. In 1775, Revolutionaries seized
control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, set up the Second
Continental Congress, and formed a Continental Army. The following year, they
formally declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of
America. From 1778 onward, other European powers would fight on the American
side in the war. Meanwhile, Native Americans and African Americans served on
both sides.

Throughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to
capture and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where 90% of
the population lived) largely eluded them due to their relatively small land
army. In early 1778, shortly after an American victory at Saratoga, France
entered the war against Britain; Spain and the Netherlands joined as allies of
France over the next two years. French involvement proved decisive, with a
French naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British
army at Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 ended the war and
recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded by
what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River
to the west.

The war of American independence could be summed up as a civil war fought on
foreign soil, as opposing forces comprised both nations' residents. That said,
it is a war that America could not have survived without French assistance. In
addition, Britain had significant military disadvantages. Distance was a major
problem: most troops and supplies had to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.
The British usually had logistical problems whenever they operated away from
port cities, while the Americans had local sources of manpower and food and were
more familiar with (and acclimated to) the territory. Additionally, ocean travel
meant that British communications were always about two months out of date: by
the time British generals in America received their orders from London, the
military situation had usually changed.

Suppressing a rebellion in America also posed other problems. Since the colonies
covered a large area and had not been united before the war, there was no
central area of strategic importance. In Europe, the capture of a capital often
meant the end of a war; in America, when the British seized cities such as New
York and Philadelphia, the war continued unabated. Furthermore, the large size
of the colonies meant that the British lacked the manpower to control them by
force. Once any area had been occupied, troops had to be kept there or the
Revolutionaries would regain control, and these troops were thus unavailable for
further offensive operations. The British had sufficient troops to defeat the
Americans on the battlefield but not enough to simultaneously occupy the
colonies. This manpower shortage became critical after French and Spanish entry
into the war, because British troops had to be dispersed in several theaters,
where previously they had been concentrated in America.

The British also had the difficult task of fighting the war while simultaneously
retaining the allegiance of Loyalists. Loyalist support was important, since the
goal of the war was to keep the colonies in the British Empire, but this imposed
numerous military limitations. Early in the war, the Howe brothers served as
peace commissioners while simultaneously conducting the war effort, a dual role
which may have limited their effectiveness. Additionally, the British could have
recruited more slaves and Native Americans to fight the war, but this would have
alienated many Loyalists, even more so than the controversial hiring of German
mercenaries. The need to retain Loyalist allegiance also meant that the British
were unable to use the harsh methods of suppressing rebellion they employed in
Ireland and Scotland. Even with these limitations, many potentially neutral
colonists were nonetheless driven into the ranks of the Revolutionaries because
of the war. This combination of factors led ultimately to the downfall of
British rule in America and the rise of the revolutionaries' own independent
nation, the United States of America.


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