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  2. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    According to historian Robert Middlekauff, "Americans had become almost completely self-governing" before the American Revolution (see Salutary neglect). [26] During the French and Indian War (17541763), the British government fielded 45,000 soldiers, half British Regulars and half colonial volunteers. The colonies also contributed money to ...

  3. French and Indian War - Wikipedia

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    A copy of the Quebec Act passed in 1774 which addressed a number of grievances held by French Canadians and Indians, although it angered American colonists. The Quebec Act 1774 addressed issues brought forth by Roman Catholic French Canadians from the 1763 proclamation, and it transferred the Indian Reserve into the Province of Quebec.

  4. French and Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    The title French and Indian War in the singular is used in the United States specifically for the warfare of 17541763, which composed the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War and the aftermath of which led to the American Revolution. The French and Indian Wars were preceded by the Beaver Wars.

  5. American Revolutionary War - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    In the historiography of some countries, the war is named after combatants in its respective theatres. In the present-day United States, the conflict is known as the French and Indian War (17541763). In English-speaking Canada—the balance of Britain's former North American colonies—it is called the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

  8. Anna's Thinking Cap: Reformation wars, Cardinal Richelieu ...

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    Another European war, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), known in North America as the French and Indian War (17541763), precipitated the decline of French power in the New World (events ...

  9. Sixty Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prohibited American colonists from settling the lands acquired from France at the conclusion of the French and Indian War, but this caused resentment among the colonists and is often cited as one of the causes of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The war spilled onto the frontier, with British military ...