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Was the opening to the American Revolution.Thomas Gage, sought to avoid armed rebellion by sending a column of royal infantry from Boston to capture colonial military stores at Concord. News of his plan was dispatched to the countryside by Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott. As the advance column under Major John Pitcairn reached Lexington, they came upon a group of militia (the minutemen). After a brief exchange of shots in which several Americans were killed, and withdrew.
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January. Thomas Paine's Common Sense published providing strong arguments for American independence.
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April 27: American troops under Benedict Arnold defeat the British at Ridgefield, Connecticut
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October 7: American victory at Battle of Saratoga
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February 6: France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States and the American Revolution soon becomes a world war.
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June 16: Spain declares war on England but no alliance with America
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June 23: Battle of Springfield American victory
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January 17: American victory at Cowpens
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November 10: The final battle of the Revolutionary War when Americans retaliate by attacking a Shawnee village in Ohio
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Finally, in February of 1783 George III issued his Proclamation of Cessation of Hostilities, culminating in the Peace Treaty of 1783. Signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, the agreement — also known as the Paris Peace Treaty — formally ended the United States War for Independence.
