The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Revolutionary War.
American Revolutionary War – war of independence between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States that was fought from April 19, 1775 to September 3, 1783. The war was fought as part of the broader American Revolution , in which the Thirteen Colonies made a declaration of independence in response to disputes regarding political representation. The conflict took place in the present-day Eastern United States, which the Thirteen Colonies successfully defended with the assistance of French, Dutch, and Spanish support. American victory led to the creation of the United States.
Background
Colonial history of the United States
French and Indian War
American Enlightenment
American Revolution
No taxation without representation
Boston Tea Party
Acts of Great Britain
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act 1764
Currency Act
Quartering Acts
Quartering Act 1765
Quartering Act 1774
Stamp Act 1765
Declaratory Act
Revenue Act of 1766
Townshend Acts
New York Restraining Act 1767
Revenue Act 1767
Indemnity Act 1767
Commissioners of Customs Act 1767
Vice Admiralty Court Act 1768
Tea Act 1773
Intolerable Acts
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act 1774
Quartering Act 1774
Quebec Act
Conciliatory Resolution
Restraining Acts 1775
New England Trade and Fisheries Act
Trade Act 1775
Proclamation of Rebellion
Prohibitory Act
Participants
Great Britain
United States
United States of America
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia
Abenaki
Catawba
Cheraw
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Kingdom of France
Lenape
Mi'kmaq
Mohicans
Oneida
Pedee
Seminole
Tuscarora
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Support from
Neutral parties
Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era
Russia and the American Revolution
Campaigns and theaters
Conflicts between forces of at least 1,000 soldiers are denoted in bold .
Northern theater
Boston campaign
Powder Alarm (September 1, 1774)
Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
Battle of Menotomy (April 19, 1775)
Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776)
Battle of Chelsea Creek (May 27, 1775 – May 28, 1775)
Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775)
Battle of Machias (June 11, 1775 – June 12, 1775)
Fortification of Dorchester Heights (March 4, 1776 – March 5, 1776)
Battle off Fairhaven (May 14, 1775)
Battle of Gloucester (August 8, 1775)
Burning of Falmouth (October 18, 1775)
Knox Expedition (November 17, 1775 – January 25, 1776)
Invasion of Quebec
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (May 10, 1775)
Siege of Fort St. Jean (September 17, 1775 – November 3, 1775)
Battle of Longue-Pointe (September 25, 1775)
Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec (September 11, 1775 – November 9, 1775)
Battle of Quebec (1775) (December 31, 1775)
Battle of Saint-Pierre (March 25, 1776)
Battle of the Cedars (May 18, 1776 – May 27, 1776)
Battle of Trois-Rivières (June 8, 1776)
Battle of Valcour Island (October 11, 1776)
Nova Scotia campaign
Raid on St. John (August 27, 1775)
Raid on Charlottetown (November 17, 1775 – November 18, 1775)
Raid on Yarmouth (December 5, 1775)
Raid on Canso (September 22, 1776 – November 22, 1776)
Battle of Fort Cumberland (November 10, 1776 – November 29, 1776)
Battle off Yarmouth (March 28, 1777)
St. John River expedition (June 2, 1777 – June 30, 1777)
Capture of USS Hancock (July 8, 1777 – July 9, 1777)
Battle off Liverpool (April 24, 1778).
Battle off Halifax (July 10, 1780)
Battle of Blomindon (May 21, 1781)
Action of 21 July 1781 (July 21, 1781)
Raid on Annapolis Royal (August 29, 1781)
Battle off Halifax (May 28, 1782 – May 29, 1782)
Raid on Chester (June 30, 1782)
Raid on Lunenburg (July 1, 1782)
New York and New Jersey campaign
Battle of Long Island (August 26, 1776)
Landing at Kip's Bay (September 15, 1776)
Battle of Harlem Heights (September 16, 1776)
Battle of Pell's Point (October 18, 1776)
Battle of Mamaroneck (October 22, 1776)
Battle of White Plains (October 28, 1776)
Battle of Fort Washington (November 16, 1776)
Battle of Fort Lee (November 20, 1776)
Ambush of Geary (December 14, 1776)
Battle of Iron Works Hill (December 22, 1776 – December 23, 1776)
Battle of Trenton (December 26, 1776)
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River (December 25, 1776)
Battle of the Assunpink Creek (January 2, 1777)
Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777)
Battle of Millstone (January 20, 1777)
Saratoga campaign
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) (July 2, 1777 – July 6, 1777)
Battle of Hubbardton (July 7, 1777)
Battle of Fort Anne (July 8, 1777)
Siege of Fort Stanwix (August 2, 1777 – August 22, 1777)
Battle of Oriskany (August 6, 1777)
Battle of Bennington (August 16, 1777)
Battles of Saratoga
Battle of Freeman's Farm (September 19, 1777)
Battle of Bemis Heights (October 7, 1777)
Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery (October 6, 1777)
Burning of Kingston (October 16, 1777)
Philadelphia campaign
Battle of Bound Brook (April 13, 1777)
Battle of Short Hills (June 26, 1777)
Battle of Staten Island (August 22, 1777)
Battle of Cooch's Bridge (September 3, 1777)
Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777)
Battle of the Clouds (September 16, 1777)
Battle of Paoli (September 20, 1777)
Siege of Fort Mifflin (September 26, 1777 – November 16, 1777)
Battle of Germantown (October 4, 1777)
Battle of Red Bank (October 22, 1777)
Battle of Gloucester (November 25, 1777)
Battle of White Marsh (December 5, 1777 – December 8, 1777)
Battle of Matson's Ford (December 11, 1777)
Battle of Quinton's Bridge (March 18, 1778)
Clow Rebellion (April 14, 1778 – April 17, 1778)
Battle of Crooked Billet (May 1, 1778)
Battle of Barren Hill (May 20, 1778)
Battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778)
Northern theater after Saratoga
Battle of Cobleskill (May 30, 1778)
Battle of Wyoming (July 3, 1778)
Attack on German Flatts (September 17, 1778)
Baylor massacre (September 27, 1778)
Battle of Edgar's Lane (September 30, 1778)
Raid on Unadilla and Onaquaga (October 2, 1778 – October 16, 1778)
Carleton's Raid (October 24, 1778 – November 14, 1778)
Cherry Valley massacre (November 11, 1778)
Battle of Stony Point (July 16, 1779)
Battle of Minisink (July 19, 1779 – July 22, 1779)
Sullivan Expedition (June 18, 1779 – October 3, 1779)
Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779)
Boyd and Parker ambush (September 13, 1779)
Battle of Paulus Hook (August 19, 1779)
Battle of Young's House (February 3, 1780)
Battle of Connecticut Farms (June 7, 1780)
Battle of Springfield (June 23, 1780)
Battle of Bull's Ferry (July 20, 1780 – July 21, 1780)
Royalton raid (October 16, 1780)
Battle of Klock's Field (October 19, 1780)
Battle of Pine's Bridge (May 14, 1781)
Battle of Johnstown (October 25, 1781)
Southern theater
Gulf Coast campaign
Yorktown campaign
Western theater
Siege of Fort Henry (September 1777)
Siege of Boonesborough (September 7, 1778 – September 18, 1778)
Siege of Fort Vincennes (February 23, 1779 – February 25, 1779)
Siege of Fort Laurens (February 22, 1779 – March 20, 1779)
Battle of Chillicothe (May 1779)
Battle of St. Louis (May 25, 1780)
Bird's invasion of Kentucky (May 25, 1780 – August 4, 1780)
Battle of Piqua (August 8, 1780)
La Balme's Defeat (November 5, 1780)
Brodhead's Coshocton expedition (April 1781)
Lochry's Defeat (August 24, 1781)
Long Run massacre (September 13, 1781 – September 14, 1781)
Gnadenhutten massacre (March 8, 1782)
Battle of Little Mountain (March 22, 1782)
Crawford expedition (May 25, 1782 – June 12, 1782)
Siege of Bryan Station (August 15, 1782 – August 17, 1782)
Battle of Blue Licks (August 19, 1782)
Siege of Fort Henry (September 11, 1782 – September 13, 1782)
Battle of Arkansas Post (April 17, 1783)
Illinois campaign
Clark's journey down the Ohio (May 12, 1778 – May 27, 1778)
Occupation of the Illinois Country (June 1778)
Hamilton retakes Vincennes (December 17, 1778)
Clark's trek to Vincennes (February 1779)
Siege of Fort Sackville (February 23, 1779 – February 25, 1779)
Atlantic theater
People
Leaders
Great Britain
Head of state: George III
Head of government:
Frederick North, Lord North
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces:
United States
Commander-in-chief: George Washington
France
Absolute monarch: Louis XVI
Military forces
Continental Army
United States militia units
Continental Navy
British Army
Royal Navy
Demographics
African Americans in the Revolutionary War
Black Loyalist
Dunmore's Proclamation
Philipsburg Proclamation
Jewish Americans in the Revolutionary War
Native Americans in the Revolutionary War
Women in the American Revolutionary War
Practices
Financial costs of the American Revolutionary War
Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War
Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War
Diplomacy
Letters to the inhabitants of Canada
Conciliatory Resolution
Olive Branch Petition
Treaty of Watertown
Staten Island Peace Conference
Franco-American alliance
Carlisle Peace Commission
Treaty of Fort Pitt
First League of Armed Neutrality
Treaty of Paris
Philosophy Royalists Related British Acts of Parliament
Colonials Events
Combatants
Campaigns
Theaters
Battles
Events
Colonies
Combatants
Campaigns and theaters
Major battles Other events Related conflicts Involvement (by colony or location)
Leaders
British
Colonial
Colonial allies
Military Political Other topics
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