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The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately successful war for independence (the American Revolutionary War) against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9780872494084. Maier, Pauline (2010). Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451606362. Middlekauff, Robert (2005). The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (2nd ed.).
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 ...
Quintero Saravia, Gonzalo M. Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution (2018). 616 pp Scholarly biography; online review; Ritter, Luke. "The American Revolution on the Periphery of Empires: Don Bernardo de Gálvez & the Spanish-American Alliance, 1763–1783." Journal of Early American History (2017) 7#2:177-201.
The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles, and Soldiers of the American Revolution 1775–1783. Oxford, U.K.: Osprey Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4728-2314-4. Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763–1789. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-19-502921-5.
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the American extension of the general European conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Previous colonial wars in North America had started in Europe and then spread to the colonies, but the French and Indian War is notable for having started in North America and spread to Europe.