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The American Revolution: A World War. Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 9781588346599. Bemis, Samuel Flagg. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution (1935) Brown, John L. "Revolution and the Muse: the American War of Independence in Contemporary French Poetry." William and Mary Quarterly 1984 41(4): 592–614. ISSN 0043-5597 JSTOR 1919155 doi:10. ...
American Revolutionary War; Armed Forces: United States; Continental Army → Commander-in-Chief → Regional departments → Units (1775, 1776, 1777–1784) → Manual Continental Navy Continental Marines State forces → List of militia units → List of state navies → Maritime units: Great Britain; List of British units: France; List of ...
The second source for French troops was the colony of Saint-Domingue, where de Grasse picked up more than 3,000 soldiers under the command of Major-General Claude-Anne de Rouvroy de Saint Simon before departing for North America. French ground forces were also supplemented by a number of marines provided by de Grasse in support of the siege. [5]
An army of 3,000 French soldiers collaborated with Hyder Ali to capture Cuddalore. Finally the Battle of Trincomalee took place near that port on September 3. These battles can be seen as the last battles of the Franco-British conflict that encompassed the American War of Independence, and would cease in 1783 with the signature of the 1783 ...
Soldiers of the French Revolution (1989) Forrest, Alan. Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Society during Revolution and the Empire (1989) excerpt and text search; Griffith, Paddy. The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1789–1802 (1998) excerpt and text search; Hazen, Charles Downer – The French Revolution (2 vol 1932) 948 pages.
The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Quebec (part of modern-day Canada) from Great Britain , and persuade French-speaking ...
Pages in category "French military personnel of the American Revolutionary War" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Britain and France fought a series of four French and Indian Wars, followed with another war in 1778 when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution. The French settlers in New France were outnumbered 15–1 by the 13 American colonies, [23] so the French relied heavily on Indian allies.