American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War was a set of events that lead to Declaration of Independence of United States of America. The year was 1765 and after a long waging war against the French in French and Indian War, the Great Britain was in high debt from its colonies. To make reparations, the Great Britain ratified the Stamp Act which hold the colonies to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper. Against this act, patriots of the new land start to rave. The argument was that since the Americans were not and not wanted to be a part of Congress, it did not make sense to pay tax to the Congress. After a long political tension, Britain took back the Stamp Act and launch a new act called Townshend Act which taxed the items …show more content…
In 1773, a group in Boston, Massachusetts called Sons of Liberty dumped a great deal of english tea imported from Britain. That is what became the Boston Tea Party. Knowing this happened, the Great Britain started to impose more and more acts such as Intolerable Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act and etc. These acts may have made the cities highly secured for the British government, however the peace was never established. The Americans owned most of the countryside and that is where they started organizing and training militia. The leaders of 12 out of 13 colonies came together and formed a Continental Congress which was legal form of fighting against British regime. However, British only did was imposed more and more …show more content…
Being threatened for lives, British evacuated Boston and set off a navy base close to New York. In meanwhile, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence. That is when the 13 colonies were no longer a part of british colonies and would be recognized as United States of America. Not everything is goes according to plan especially when one is fighting for a greater good. The same happened to Washington’s troops while they were planning to march to Long Island and the British troops attacked from behind with a greater force called from Britain. The war started to tilt towards the British regime. The Britishers saw the Continental army as rebels and not the prisoners of war. The Continental army was starting falling apart. With a cold and bloody winter ahead, the Continental army and the Congress both were in bad shape. After many long and cold winters, the Continental army regrouped with the help of French and Spanish allies. England offered to go back to the same old way of pre-tax, pre-war and allegiance to the crown, but the offer of kicked of the tables. With their large number of ships and troops, England reentered the war and attacked the south colonies, while keeping steady pressure in the
After the French and Indian War, the British were unimpressed with the colonial war efforts and generally assumed they were unable to defend the western frontier, whereas the colonists thought they had done well in all of the wars and were confident that they could defend themselves. This led to conflict between the two nations, brought on by the costs of the wars. Landowners in Britain wanted to reduce the taxes placed upon them. King George III and the Whigs supported a colonial policy that would abandon salutary neglect and force the colonies to support the cost of the British empire. In addition to this the British began to be more present in the colonies, beginning with Pontiac’s rebellion where the British sent troops instead of letting the colonial forces respond to the attack, because of their thoughts on the colonists military efforts. The Proclamation o...
The American Revolution was caused by a series of attempts from the British to tax American colonists. After a war against France, Britain ruled an enormous overseas empire. Britain however faced war debt and was in need of money to administer the overseas empire. The crown decided that since the colonists were the primary beneficiaries of this empire, it was time to have them contribute to the empire’s revenue by paying taxes.
During the War for American Independence, 78 men were commissioned as general officers into the Continental Army by the Continental Congress. Many of these generals commanded troops with differing levels of competence and success. George Washington is typically seen as most important general, however throughout the war a number of his subordinates were able to distinguish themselves amongst their peers. One such general was Nathanael Greene. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Greene would become Washington’s most important subordinate, as demonstrated by Edward Lengel’s assessment of Greene as “the youngest and most capable of Washington’s generals.” Washington and Greene developed a strong, positive and close relationship between themselves. Greene began his life in the military after having been raised a Quaker. With limited access to literature and knowledge in his younger years, Greene became an avid reader which equipped him with the knowledge necessary to excel as a general during the war. Through his devoted study of military operations, firsthand experience and natural abilities as a soldier, Greene became an excellent military commander. He would become known for his successful southern campaign, during which, he loosened British control of the South and helped lead the war to its climax at Yorktown. Throughout the war, he was involved in a number high profile battles where he built a reputation of being an elite strategist who also understood unconventional warfare, logistics, and the importance of military-civil affairs and had a natural political/social acumen. The thesis of this paper is that Greene’s proven reputation of being a soldier, strategist and statesman would cause him to become the second greates...
After the French and Indian war, the Britain saw a need for the “more centralized control” (Outline of U.S. History, 2011, p.52). They felt as necessary to eliminate any interference from the colonialists. The colonies on the other hand, expected more freedom and independence. Hence there was a forthcoming conflict. When the organization of Canada and Ohio valley would not adopt the policies to “alienate the French and Indian inhabitants, and British needed more money and land for settlement” (54) and fear of more war erupting, the restricting and taxation laws were passed. For example the Proclamation Act of 1763, Stamp Act of 1764 and others. Although some of these were passed to counter the other, it was still evident that there was a conflict between the colonialists and the British. General Thomas Gage commanded the garrison in Boston, and his main duty was to enforce the Coercive Act (57). His forces were raided the “minutemen and eight killed in the attack “(59), and pushed on to Concord. Soldiers were lost during the fight. The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia and voted to go to war; Colonel Washington of Virginia was the Commander in Chief (59). Despite the break of war many people seen it has impossible to break the ties with England. At the end of that year, December 23, Thomas Paine, who had previously
The mistake that King George and the rest of Britain made was thinking that they could forever keep the colonies under their thumb. These were not the same colonists who came over as British citizens to set up forts. These men and women thought of themselves and American citizens and they did not need a government across the ocean telling them what to do. Ultimately, Britain lost control when they gave in to the colonists' boycotts and showed them that they had the power to run a country, and that Britain feared that power. Through Parliament's ruthless taxation without representation, restrictions upon what colonists had assumed were civil liberties and British military action, Britain and the colonists were thrown into a revolutionary war.
They closed Boston Harbor. England also sent 4000 troops to enforce these laws. In result of all this Americans set up the First Continental Congress. They decided to stop all trade with England and organized colonial militias. This was all ignored by England. The colonies in return set up the Continental Congress. The declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. After these events war was inevitable with England.
On July 4th, the American colonies declared the independence of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a group of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was, in fact, it was the first try of the colonists to rebel the British government with violence. The Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independence War.
The American Revolution was a war fought between Great Britain and the American colonies over independence from 1775 to 1783 which resulted in a fundamental change in American politics, society, and economics. The American Revolution began as a result of Great Britain taxing the colonies to cover the debts accumulated through the French and Indian War. While the majority of the colonies stayed loyal to their ‘Mother Land’, some of the colonist felt resentment toward England. Some colonist felt that England had no right to tax the colonies, while they had no representation in parliament. This created a divide within in the colonies between those who were in favor of independence-Patriots, and those who were still loyal to the Crown- Loyalist (or Tories). Even though the majority of the colonist considered themselves to be Loyalist, there was a bitter resentment toward the ‘Tories’ by the ‘Patriots’, as seen in Document B. In the Document it states that the colonist should ‘Instantly banish every Tory from among you’, and to ‘Let America be sacred alone to freemen.’
Prescott ordered his army to surround the city and launch an attack on the British, located within the basin. The British were unable to put up an effective fight against the Continental Army, so British General Thomas Gage ordered a retreat to Nova Scotia to wait for reinforcement. Congress saw this victory with such a small, untrained force, and when Washington asked for a professional army, Congress rejected. Washington knew that he had to step in and do something in order to help the war effort. It would have been easy for him to look at his circumstances and decide not to fight.
The Revolutionary war was the Defining point in American history, Primarily because it was the beginning of American history. This is the story of how America came to be. It all started because a few British people decided they wanted Freedom of Religion and wanted just wanted freedom from tyranny. One of the first game changing events was the French and Indian War. “the French and Indian War took place (1754 – 1763), King George III lost a great deal of money due to buying expensive supplies for his army and the colonies. In order to pay off his debt, he imposed taxes on the colonies without their consent.
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that greatly influenced the society we have today. A series of events that lasted from 1765 through 1783 affected how and why the American Revolution occurred. American colonists had been living under English control, which was the greatest and most powerful nation at the time, but after a while the colonist’s opinions on the English's way of government and ruling changed. Even though all of these events affected the colonists and their opinions, there were three main occurrences that caused colonists to decide to separate from England. These events were the Boston Massacre of 1770, The Intolerable Acts of 1774, and the French and Indian War that lasted from 1756 through 1763.
they viewed the American fighting force as a rabble in arms with incompetent leadership and no real sense of direction. While they weren’t all that far off the British went into the war feeling as if they would just walk all over the Americans and really felt little to no sense of urgency. This lack of urgency let the Americans stick around and stick around for much longer than necessary until they could come up with a strong counter attack and a plan to change the tides of war. The lack of urgency became apparent when General Howe decided again and again to stop the pursuit of the Continental Army and to not wipe it out once and for all. Having those extra days and months due to the British delay for the Americans was critical as without it the war would have been wiped out almost too early for that unity to fully foster that unity and then it would have been a complete non-factor and not just a secondary
For over a century Great Britain had ruled the colonies in America. Since the founding of the Chesapeake Bay colony in the south in 1607, and the Massachusetts Bay colony in the north in 1630, the colonies had relied on the crown for many of their needs. Over time the colonists established a social and economical system that was almost independent of the British Empire. In April of 1775, after many transgressions on both sides, the colonists decided that they no longer needed, or wanted the support, protection, and leadership of the country that founded them. There were many factors, both immediate, and longstanding that lead to the decision to fight for freedom from British rule.
Military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations. In the beginning of the American Revolution, according to an article by TotallyHistory.com, “the British army was about a total of 48,000 men composed of around 39,000 infantry units, 7,000 cavalry units, and 2,500 artillery men.” (2012) They also did not use the loyalists to their advantage, and the weaponry they had was less advanced than the American troops. The colonial army was fighting on their own ground, which helped them by being familiar with the areas. The American colonists were fighting for their freedom, and to keep their home. They weren’t about to let that go lightly. A quote by Patrick Henry captures this sentiment well, “They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”
The costly French and Indian War created a divide between British Parliament and the colonists that was temporarily appeased when William Pitt returned recruitment control to the colonists and reimbursed farmers and tradesmen for their goods and services that had been forcefully taken. However, this peace was short lived when British Parliament tried to acquire complete control of the colonies and regain financial stability by passing the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Duties, the Tea Act of 1773, and the Intolerable Acts of 1774. The acts greatly inconvenienced the colonists and led to the Boston Massacre of 1770, the Boston “tea party,” colonial unity, and the first shot at Lexington that sparked the American Revolution.