American Revolutionary War

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conflict revolution war

The American Revolutionary War was an 18th-century conflict in which the thirteen American colonies fought for and won independence from Great Britain, leading to the founding of the United States.

Aliases (13)

American Revolution ×76
American War of Independence ×20
American Revolutionary era ×4
American Revolutionary period ×4
American Revolutionary War era ×3
American Revolutionary War (as Delaware) ×1
American Revolutionary War (early local history of area) ×1
American Revolutionary War (late phase) ×1
American Revolutionary War (through Benedict Arnold) ×1
American Revolutionary War naval campaigns ×1
Revolutionary War ×1
U.S. War of Independence ×1
War of American Independence ×1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	conflict → revolution → war →
alsoKnownAs	American War of Independence → U.S. War of Independence →
belligerent	Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel → Dutch Republic → France → Great Britain → Hesse-Kassel → Kingdom of Great Britain → Loyalists → Patriots → Spain → Thirteen Colonies → United States →
cause	American colonial resistance → British imperial policies → taxation without representation →
combatantStrength	hundreds of thousands of soldiers over duration →
commander	Benedict Arnold → Charles Cornwallis → George Washington → Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette → Henry Clinton → Horatio Gates → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → King George III → Nathanael Greene →
countryFormed	United States of America →
endDate	1783-09-03 →
followedBy	French Revolution → Northwest Indian War →
hasPart	Battle of Brandywine → Battle of Bunker Hill → Battle of Germantown → Battle of Princeton → Battle of Saratoga → Battle of Trenton → Battle of Yorktown → Battles of Lexington and Concord → Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War → Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War → Siege of Boston → Siege of Yorktown → Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War →
historicalPeriod	18th century →
ideology	liberalism → republicanism →
location	Atlantic Ocean → Caribbean → North America → Thirteen Colonies →
mainTheater	Eastern North America →
partOf	Age of Revolution → Atlantic Revolutions →
precededBy	French and Indian War → Seven Years' War →
result	American victory → Independence of the United States → Recognition of U.S. sovereignty by Great Britain → Treaty of Paris (1783) →
significantEvent	Adoption of the Articles of Confederation → Declaration of Independence → Surrender at Yorktown →
startDate	1775-04-19 →
treaty	Treaty of Alliance (1778) → Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1778) → Treaty of Paris (1783) →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 553)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1st Baron Barham → Aaron Burr → Alexander Martin → Alexander McDougall → Alliance → Anthony Wayne → Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War → Banastre Tarleton → Battle of Assunpink Creek → Battle of Bennington → Battle of Brandywine → Battle of Bunker Hill → Battle of Camden → Battle of Chelsea Creek → Battle of Cowpens → Battle of Eutaw Springs → Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775) → Battle of Fort Washington → Battle of Germantown → Battle of Groton Heights → Battle of Guilford Court House → Battle of Harlem Heights → Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill → Battle of Hubbardton → Battle of Kings Mountain → Battle of Long Island → Battle of Monmouth → Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge → Battle of Nassau → Battle of Oriskany → Battle of Princeton → Battle of Ridgefield → Battle of Stony Point → Battle of Trenton → Battle of Valcour Island → Battle of White Plains → Battle of White Plains → Battle of the Chesapeake → Battles of Lexington and Concord → Battles of Trenton and Princeton → Benedict Arnold → Benedict Arnold V → Boston campaign → British Army under Cornwallis → British capture of Savannah → British occupation of Philadelphia → British raid on New London, Connecticut → Buckongahelas → Butler’s Rangers → Charles Lee → Charles Pinckney → Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army → Commander-in-Chief, North America → Commander-in-Chief, North America ("American War of Independence") → Continental Army → Continental Artillery → Continental Navy → Crispus Attucks ("American Revolution") → Daniel Morgan → Edward Carrington → Esek Hopkins → Francis Marion → Francis Smith → French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment → Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben → George Clinton → George Rogers Clark → George Washington → George Washington → Guy Carleton → HMS Countess of Scarborough → HMS Serapis → Hamilton’s light infantry battalion → Henry Clinton → Henry Hamilton → Henry Knox → Henry Lee III → Hesse-Kassel → Hessian auxiliaries → Hessian forces → Hessian troops → Horatio Gates → Horatio Nelson ("American War of Independence") → Israel Putnam → Israel Putnam → James Abercrombie → James Barrett → James Winchester → Johann Rall → John Barry → John Burgoyne → John Crane → John Hardin → John Marshall → John Parker → John Pitcairn → John Stark → Josiah Harmar → King’s Royal Regiment of New York → Lafayette’s division → Leopold Philip de Heister → Lord North ("American War of Independence") → Loyalist militias → Loyalist provincial corps → Marinus Willett → Massachusetts Provincial Artillery Regiment → Monmouth campaign → Morristown encampments → New Jersey campaign of 1778 → New York and New Jersey campaign → Pallas → Philip Schuyler → Pierre Charles L’Enfant → Queen's Rangers → Richard Montgomery → Richard Pearson → Robert Pigot → Robert Rogers → Royal Navy North America and West Indies Station ("American War of Independence") → Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood → Samuel Nicholas → Samuel Osgood → Samuel Smith → Saratoga campaign → Siege of Boston → Siege of Charleston → Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) → Siege of Yorktown → Southern Department of the Continental Army → Storming of Redoubt 9 → Thomas Gage → Thomas Sumter → USS Alfred → USS Bonhomme Richard → USS Hancock → USS Lexington → USS Providence → USS Ranger → USS Wasp → West Florida → Wilhelm von Knyphausen → William Howe → William Prescott → William R. Davie → William Tryon →	conflict
Alliance → Andrew Pickens → Black Loyalists → Bourbon Spain → Charles Cornwallis → Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis → Charles Thomson ("American Revolution") → Colony of Maryland → Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations → Connecticut Colony → Conrad Alexandre Gérard → Conrad Alexandre Gérard ("American Revolution") → Francisco de Miranda → François Joseph Paul de Grasse → Friedrich Wilhelm von Lossberg → Henri de Saint-Simon → Henry Middleton ("American Revolution") → Hugh Mercer → Israel Putnam → Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau → John Adams ("American Revolution") → John Crane → John Lamb → John Lewis Gervais → John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ("American War of Independence") → John Sullivan → Kingdom of France → Kingdom of Great Britain → Lafayette → Marquis de Lafayette → Maryland militia → Michael Hillegas → Michael Hillegas ("American Revolution") → Nathanael Greene → Nathanael Greene → New England colonial militias → Paul Revere → Pierre Charles L’Enfant → Robert Morris → Robert R. Livingston ("American Revolution") → Robert Treat Paine ("American Revolution") → Samuel Smith → Silas Deane → Sir John Johnson → Tadeusz Kościuszko → Thomas Middleton ("American Revolution") → Thomas Person ("American Revolution") → USS Bonhomme Richard → USS Providence ("American Revolutionary War naval campaigns") →	participatedIn
Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War → Battle of Bunker Hill → Battle of Camden → Battle of Cowpens ("American War of Independence") → Battle of Lexington → Battle of Long Island → Battle of Monmouth → Battle of Nassau → Battle of the Chesapeake → Battles of Lexington and Concord → Battles of Lexington and Concord → British occupation of New York City → British raid on New London, Connecticut → First Continental Congress ("American Revolution") → Invasion of Quebec (1775) → New York Provincial Congress ("American Revolution") → Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War → Patriot (American Revolution) ("American Revolution") → Saratoga campaign → Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War → Valley Forge winter encampment → Washington’s Ten Crucial Days → William Dawes’s warning ride →	partOf
Arthur Lee → Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes → Isaac Sears ("American Revolution") → James Bowdoin ("American Revolution") → James Monroe → John Armstrong Jr. → John Armstrong Sr. → John Dickinson ("American Revolution") → John Hancock ("American Revolution") → John Hancock → John Hancock → Joseph Warren → Moses Cleaveland → Peyton Randolph ("American Revolution") → Richard Henry Lee → Sir Charles Middleton ("American War of Independence") → William Dawes → William Howe →	participantIn
American nationalism ("American Revolution") → Catherine Littlefield Greene → City Tavern site ("American Revolution") → Concord, Massachusetts → Hancock-Clarke House → James Caldwell ("American Revolution") → Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site → Lucy Flucker Knox → Margaret Mansfield ("American Revolutionary War (through Benedict Arnold)") → Minuteman Bikeway → Montpelier (Thomaston, Maine) → Old St. Mary’s Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania → Princeton, New Jersey, United States → Samuel Gray ("American Revolution") → St. John’s Church (Richmond, Virginia) ("American Revolution") → Yankee Doodle (song) →	associatedWith
Address to the People of Quebec ("American Revolution") → Betsy Ross House → Brattle Street → Cambridge Common → Cambridge Farms ("American Revolutionary War (early local history of area)") → Faneuil Hall ("American Revolution") → Father of His Country ("American Revolution") → Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel → Granary Burying Ground ("American Revolution") → Ionic Colonnade and Memorial Grove → John Hancock ("American Revolution") → John Vassall Jr. → Munroe Tavern → Old Belfry site → St. David’s Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania →	associatedWithEvent
Battle of Cowpens ("American Revolution") → Battles of Lexington and Concord ("American Revolution") → Continental Colors → Declaration and Resolves ("American Revolutionary era") → Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms → Hartwell Tavern ("American Revolutionary War era") → Intolerable Acts ("American Revolutionary era") → Memoir addressed to the inhabitants of America (justifying his defection) → New York Provincial Congress → Quartermaster General of the Continental Army → Tea Act ("American Revolutionary era") → Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1778) → Valley Forge National Historical Park →	historicalPeriod
Arthur Middleton → Arthur St. Clair → Edward Rutledge → Jeremiah O’Brien → John Butler → John Parke Custis → John Sullivan → Lord Barham ("American War of Independence") → Philip Freneau → Province of Pennsylvania → Richard Dobbs Spaight →	militaryConflict
Address to the People of Great Britain ("American Revolution") → Beaver ("American Revolution") → Continental Association → Declaration and Resolves ("American Revolution") → Jay Treaty → Olive Branch Petition → Patriots’ Day → Quartering Act ("American Revolution") → Second Anglo-Mysore War → Tea Act ("American Revolution") → The British Debt Case →	relatedTo
British America → British Empire → British Indian Department → British North American colonies (except some territories) ("American Revolution") → Buckman Tavern → Clarke House Museum → Colony and Dominion of Virginia → Connecticut colonial flag → European colonization of the Americas →	significantEvent
Arthur Middleton ("American Revolution") → Edward Carrington ("American Revolution") → James Barrett ("American Revolution") → John Paul Jones ("American Revolution") → Joseph Warren ("American Revolution") → Peggy Shippen → Sons of Liberty ("American Revolution") →	movement
Betsy Ross → Continental Artillery ("American Revolution") → Friedrich Wilhelm von Lossberg ("American War of Independence") → Sarah Franklin Bache → United States militia forces →	activeDuring
Battle of Assunpink Creek ("American Revolution") → Colony of Pennsylvania → Crispus Attucks ("American Revolutionary period") → John Parker ("American Revolution") → Town of New Windsor, New York →	historicalEra
Iroquois Confederacy → Massachusetts ("American Revolution") → Province of Massachusetts Bay ("American Revolution") → Richard Caswell → South Carolina →	playedRoleIn
Charleston → Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army → Jonas Clarke → New London, Connecticut → Philadelphia ("American Revolution") →	roleIn
North Bridge monument in Concord → Patriots’ Day Parade in Concord → Trenton Battle Monument → Yorktown Victory Monument →	commemorates
The Life of George Washington → Washington Crossing the Delaware → Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze) → Washington Crossing the Delaware (painting) →	depicts
French Army → United States Armed Forces → United States Army → United States Marine Corps →	engagedIn
Charleston Tea Party → Regulator Movement → Seven Years' War → Seven Years' War ("War of American Independence") →	followedBy
Battle Road Trail → Meriam’s Corner → Prospect Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts → U.S. National Historic Landmark District (as part of Cambridge Common Historic District) →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Bennington, Vermont → Charleston County, South Carolina → Fishkill, New York → Montgomery County, Pennsylvania →	hasHistoricSignificance
American Revolutionary era → American Revolutionary era ("American War of Independence") → American Revolutionary era ("American Revolution") → Georgian era →	hasPart
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford → Henry Laurens → Lord North → William Tryon →	notableEvent
British colonial authorities → George III of the United Kingdom → Margaret Kemble Gage →	associatedEvent
American South (colonial and early national periods) → Frederick North, Lord North → William Franklin →	conflictInvolved
Province of Delaware → Province of New Jersey → Province of North Carolina →	event
Early Republic of the United States → Northwest Indian War → Treaty of Fort McIntosh →	follows
Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center → George Washington statue (Cambridge Common) → Lexington Minuteman Statue →	hasSubject
The Spy ("American War of Independence") → Thoughts on Government → Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1778) ("American War of Independence") →	historicalContext
American Romantic nationalism ("American Revolution") → Latin American independence movements ("American Revolution") → Northwest Indian Confederacy →	influencedBy
Delaware Colony ("American Revolutionary War (as Delaware)") → East Florida → Southern Colonies →	partOfConflict
Assassin's Creed III → The Pilot → The Spy →	settingPeriod
American Revolutionary War ("American War of Independence") → American Revolutionary War ("U.S. War of Independence") →	alsoKnownAs
6th Regiment of Foot → John Taylor of Caroline →	conflictParticipatedIn
Definitive Treaty of Peace → Treaty of Paris (1783) →	endedConflict
Grand Union Flag ("American Revolution") → Munroe Tavern ("American Revolutionary period") →	era
Episcopal Church ("American Revolution") → Episcopal Diocese of New York →	foundedAfter
Hudson River waterfront at West Point → Menotomy →	hasHistoricalSignificance
Carlisle, Pennsylvania → Morris County, New Jersey →	historicalSignificance
American South (colonial and early national periods) ("American Revolution") → American South (colonial and early national periods) ("American War of Independence") →	keyEventRole
Continental Congress resolutions → Thoughts on Government ("American Revolution") →	mainSubject
Little Turtle's War → Quasi-War →	precededBy
Funding Act of 1790 → United States Declaration of Independence →	relatedEvent
Minuteman companies →	activeIn
American Loyalists →	activeInConflict
Patriot (American Revolution) →	activeInPeriod
Cayuga →	affectedBy
Articles of War (Continental Army) →	appliesDuring
President of the Continental Congress →	appliesDuringPeriod
Adjutant General of the Continental Army →	appliesToPeriod
Mad Anthony →	associatedConflict
Pat Patriot →	associatedWithEra
Stony Brook →	associatedWithPeriod
Rome, New York →	associatedWithWar
Alexander Hamilton →	battle
Fort Nonsense →	builtDuring
USS Ranger →	capturedIn
Colony of Pennsylvania ("American Revolution") →	colonialStatusEndedWith
Bunker Hill Monument →	commemoratesConflict
Marquis de Lafayette statue (Paris, Cours-la-Reine) →	commemoratesEvent
court-martial of General Charles Lee →	conflictContext
Battle of Flamborough Head →	conflictIn
Mohawk →	conflictInvolvement
David Hartley →	conflictResolved
John Adams (miniseries) →	depictsEvent
Brunswick Town →	destroyedInPeriod
Colonial Assembly of North Carolina →	dissolvedAfter
Middle Colonies ("American Revolution") →	dissolvedBy
Treaty of Alliance (1778) →	duringConflict
New York Colony →	endedAsColony
Province of New York ("American Revolution") →	endTime
Headless Horseman →	eraOfDeath
Joseph Galloway →	fledDuring
New Hall Military Museum →	focusesOnPeriod
James Wright →	governedDuringConflict
United Colonies →	hasConflict
Crown Point, New York →	hasHistoricPeriod
Stillwater, New York →	hasNearbyHistoricPeriod
Battle of Chelsea Creek →	hasPartOf
North Bridge Visitor Center →	hasPrimaryTheme
Patriots’ Day Parade in Lexington →	hasTheme
Anglo-American relations →	historicalEvent
United States Infantry →	historicalInvolvement
Bound Brook, New Jersey →	historicEra
Washington Square (Philadelphia) →	historicPeriod
Mohawk Valley →	importantDuring
William Franklin →	imprisonedDuring
Atlantic Revolutions ("American Revolution") →	includesEvent
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples ("American War of Independence") →	includesTopic
Age of Enlightenment ("American Revolution") →	influenced
Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1778) →	inForceDuring
Articles of Confederation ("American Revolutionary War (late phase)") →	inForceDuringEvent
Indian independence movement ("American Revolution") →	inspiredBy
Province of Georgia →	involvedIn
Potawatomi →	involvedInConflict
Boston Massacre ("American Revolutionary period") →	isPartOf
Mulberry Grove Plantation ("American Revolutionary War era") →	locatedInTimePeriod
American Revolutionary era →	mainConflict
Minute Man National Historical Park →	mainTheme
Nathaniel Macon →	militaryService
USCGC Commodore Barry (WHEC-34) →	namedForConflict
United States Navy →	notableConflict
The Age of Revolution ("American Revolution") →	notableEventCovered
House of Hanover ("American War of Independence") →	notableEventDuringRule
Paul Revere ("American Revolution") →	notableFor
Hancock ("American Revolution") →	notableForAssociationWith
Livingston family ("American Revolution") →	notableForRoleIn
Durham boat →	notablyUsedIn
James Wright ("American Revolution") →	opposed
Sir John Johnson ("American Revolution") →	opposedTo
Thomas Marshall →	participated in
revolutionary government of New York →	participatesIn
USS Providence ("American War of Independence") →	partOfEvent
Pennsylvania ("American Revolution") →	playedCentralRoleIn
Haudenosaunee →	playedMajorRoleIn
Hamilton →	portraysEvent
Boston Massacre →	precedes
John Vassall Jr. →	propertyConfiscatedDuring
Independence Day →	relatedConflict
Quebec Act ("American Revolution") →	relatedToEvent
HMS Endeavour →	scuttledDuring
John Paul Jones →	servedIn
Commodore John Barry →	servedInConflict
HMS Victory ("American War of Independence") →	serviceEntryConflict
Turn: Washington's Spies →	setInPeriod