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Der amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskrieg (englisch American Revolutionary War oder American War of Independence) fand von 1775 bis 1783 zwischen den 13 nordamerikanischen Kolonien einerseits und der britischen Kolonialmacht andererseits statt. Er war der Höhepunkt der Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung und führte mit der Unabhängigkeitserklärung 1776 und der Bildung der Konföderation 1777 zu deren siegreichem Abschluss und zur Entstehung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.

Der Ausgang des Krieges wurde durch die Unterstützung und ab 1778 das aktive Eingreifen Frankreichs zugunsten der Kolonisten wesentlich beeinflusst. Die Hauptkampfhandlungen endeten im Jahre 1781 nach der britischen Niederlage in der Schlacht von Yorktown, der Krieg selbst wurde mit der Unterzeichnung des Friedens von Paris am 3. September 1783 offiziell beendet.

The American Revolutionary War (17751783) or American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war between several European great powers.

The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby many of the colonists rejected the legitimacy of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation, claiming that this violated the Rights of Englishmen. The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to coordinate relations with Great Britain and the thirteen now self-governing and individual provinces, petitioning George III for intervention with Parliament, organizing a boycott of British goods, while affirming loyalty to the British Crown. Their pleas ignored, and with British combat troops billeted in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1775 the Provincial Congresses formed the Second Continental Congress and authorized a Continental Army. Additional petitions to the king to intervene with Parliament resulted in the following year with Congress being declared traitors and the states to be in rebellion. The Americans responded in 1776 by formally declaring their independence as one new nation — the United States of America — claiming their own sovereignty and rejecting any allegiance to the British monarchy.

France provided supplies, ammunition and weapons to the rebels from 1776, and the Continentals' capture of a British army in 1777 led France to enter the war in early 1778, which evened the military strength with Britain. Spain and the Dutch Republic French allies also went to war with Britain over the next two years, threatening an invasion of England and severely testing British military strength with campaigns in Europe — including attacks on Minorca and Gibraltar — and an escalating global naval war. Spain's involvement culminated in the expulsion of British armies from West Florida, securing the American colonies' southern flank.

Throughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture and occupy American coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where 90% of the population lived) largely eluded them because of the relatively small size of their land army. French involvement proved decisive, with a French naval victory in the Chesapeake leading at Yorktown in 1781 to the surrender of a second British army. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the war and recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded by what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west.

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[jameswx09]

Yeah we got our independence, now we just need our freedom.