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Patriot victory: Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas engaged John Bacon and his Loyalist bandits (known now as "Refugees") at Cedar Bridge. A brief exchange of gunfire took place, and Bacon and his men were able to escape. This was the last land battle in the U.S.
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, where American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775 by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia after the war's outbreak. The Continental Army was created to coordinate military efforts of the colonies in the war against the British, who sought to maintain control over the American colonies. General George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and maintained this position throughout the war.
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order.
During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), management and treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) were very different from the standards of modern warfare. Modern standards, as outlined in the Geneva Conventions of later centuries, assume that captives will be held and cared for by their captors. One primary difference in the 18th century was that care and supplies for captives were expected to be provided by their own combatants or private resources.
Colonel Marinus Willett was an American military officer, politician and merchant who served as the mayor of New York City from 1807 to 1808. Willett is best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he served as an important Patriot leader in colonial New York before enlisting in the Continental Army and serving in numerous campaigns in the Revolutionary War throughout the Northwest.
French involvement in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783 began in 1776 when the Kingdom of France secretly shipped supplies to the Continental Army of the Thirteen Colonies when it was established in June 1775. France was a long-term historical rival with the Kingdom of Great Britain, from which the Colonies were attempting to separate.
The 1st New Hampshire Regiment was an infantry unit that came into existence on 22 May 1775 at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. John Stark was the regiment's first commander. The unit fought at Chelsea Creek and Bunker Hill in 1775. On 1 January 1776, while engaged in the Siege of Boston, the unit was renamed the 5th Continental Regiment. In the spring it was sent to Canada where the New Hampshire soldiers fought at Trois-Rivières and later helped defend the area around Lake Champlain. Late in the year, the 5th Continental Regiment was transferred south to George Washington's main army where it fought at Trenton.
The 6th Massachusetts Regiment also known as the 4th Continental Regiment was raised on April 23, 1775, under Colonel John Nixon outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Bunker Hill, New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton and the Battle of Saratoga. The regiment was furloughed June 12, 1783, at West Point, New York and disbanded on November 3, 1783.
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a regiment in the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through the entire war, from the siege of Boston to the disbanding of the Continental Army on November 3, 1783.
The 2nd Rhode Island Regiment was authorized on 6 May 1775 under Colonel Daniel Hitchcock in the Rhode Island Army of Observation and was organized on 8 May 1775 as eight companies of volunteers from Providence County of the colony of Rhode Island. As part of a brigade organized under Nathanael Greene, the unit participated in the Siege of Boston during the remainder of 1775. Some elements accompanied Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec late in the year. The unit was renamed the 11th Continental Regiment on the first day of 1776.
Pennsylvania was the site of many key events associated with the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War. The city of Philadelphia, then capital of the Thirteen Colonies and the largest city in the colonies, was a gathering place for the Founding Fathers who discussed, debated, developed, and ultimately implemented many of the acts, including signing the Declaration of Independence, that inspired and launched the revolution and the quest for independence from the British Empire.
The southern theater of the American Revolutionary War was the central theater of military operations in the second half of the American Revolutionary War, 1778–1781. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Tactics consisted of both strategic battles and guerrilla warfare.
Capt. Nathaniel Hutchins was one of Rogers' Rangers—initially, a provincial company from the colony of New Hampshire; he served, for five years, during the French and Indian War.
The following bibliography includes notable books concerning the American Revolutionary War. These books are listed in the bibliographies of books by prominent historians as shown in the footnotes.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Revolutionary War.
↑ Randall, Willard Sterne (1990). Benedict Arnold: patriot and traitor (1sted.). New York: Morrow. ISBN978-1-55710-034-4.
↑ Nelson, James L. (2008). George Washington's secret navy: how the American revolution went to sea. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN978-0-07-149389-5.
↑ Ketchum, Richard M. (1999). Decisive day: the Battle for Bunker Hill (1sted.). New York: H. Holt. ISBN978-0-8050-6099-7.
↑ Roberts, Robert B. (1988). Encyclopedia of historic forts: the military, pioneer, and trading posts of the United States. New York, N.Y. u.a: Macmillan. p.603. ISBN978-0-02-926880-3.
↑ Garland, Joseph E. (2006). The fish and the falcon: Gloucester's resolute role in America's fight for freedom. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN978-1-59629-007-5.
↑ Gabriel, Michael P. (2002). Major general Richard Montgomery: the making of an American hero. Madison, NJ: London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Press. ISBN978-0-8386-3931-3.
↑ Miller, Nathan (1974). Sea of glory: the Continental Navy fights for independence, 1775-1783. New York: D. McKay Co. ISBN978-0-679-50392-7.
↑ Selby, John E. (2007). The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783. Williamsburg, Va.: Charlottesville, Va: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Distributed by the University of Virginia Press. ISBN978-0-87935-233-2.
1 2 Alden, John Richard; Stephenson, Wendell Holmes (1976). The South in the revolution: 1763 - 1789. A history of the South: [in eleven volumes] / eds. Wendell Holmes Stephenson. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State Univ. Press [u.a.] ISBN978-0-8071-0003-5.
↑ Wilson, David K. (2005). The southern strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN978-1-57003-573-9.
↑ Huff, 22; Bobby Gilmer Moss, The Patriots in the Snow Campaign, 1775 (Blacksburg, SC: Scotia Hibernia Press, 2007), 18.
↑ Anderson, Mark R. (2013). The battle for the fourteenth colony: America's war of liberation in Canada, 1774-1776. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. ISBN978-1-61168-497-1.
↑ Russell, David Lee (2000). The American Revolution in the Southern colonies. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co. ISBN978-0-7864-0783-5.
↑ Wilson, David K. (2005). The southern strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN978-1-57003-573-9.
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