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Managed the Colonial War effort and moved towards independence adopting the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
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The attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown
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A battle during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolution
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Written to advocate independence from Great Britain to the people of the Thirteen Colonies
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Its a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress that stated that the Thirteen Colonies will be independent from Great Britain
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First major battle of the American Revolutionary War after US declared their independence
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A small battle during the American Revolutionary War
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Served as quarters for the American army in one winter of the Revolutionary War
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A major battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1777 in northern New York state. Benedict Arnold, who had not yet turned traitor, was a leader of the American offensive, which forced the surrender of British troops under General John Burgoyne.
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The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington
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Howe and Cornwallis went for the attack on Washington flanking Washington and taking Philadelphia in the Battle of Brandywine Creek
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
