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It was a warlike conflict that pitted the original Thirteen British Colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It occurred between 1775 and 1783, ending with the British defeat at the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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The British colonies that became independent from Great Britain built the first liberal and democratic political system, lighting a new nation, the United States of America, incorporating the new revolutionary ideas that advocated equality and freedom.
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In the southern colonies (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) a slave system had been organized (with some 500,000 black slaves) operating tobacco, cotton, and sugar plantations.
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The antecedents to the United States War of Independence go back to the Franco-British rivalry in North America and the consequences of the Seven Years' War.
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With respect to the American colonists, the war radically modified the previous scenario. Quebec's French-speaking Catholics, traditional enemies of the American colonists of the Thirteen Colonies, were treated with respect by the British authorities. Deal that was confirmed in 1774 when Canada was given a particular status within the American colonies, taking its borders to the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi
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The immediate cause of this conflict was the unfair treatment that Great Britain inflicted on the colonists, since they contributed wealth and taxes to the metropolis.
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It was the process that brought to an end the period of dominance of the Spanish Empire in the current territory of the country.
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This process was fought in the midst of a conflict developed between 1810 to 1819 to emancipate the territories that then comprised the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
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The process was part of the Spanish American Wars of Independence, a series of struggles that emerged in America
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The independence movements begin with the proclamation of government boards, then grouped into camps led by Antonio Nariño and Camilo Torres Tenorio
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The first phase of the process, from 1810 to 1815, was characterized by various conflicts between the defenders of the monarchy and the independence movement. In 1811 some provinces of New Granada were grouped together as a new independent State
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During this new phase, several republican groups remained active, exercising effective power in the Llanos, mainly in Casanare and in Venezuelan Guiana.
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The territory occupied by the Viceroyalty of New Granada became the Republic of Colombia, a republican state thus named in honor of the navigator Cristobal Colom
