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The following year, in 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence proclaiming the colonies' sovereignty from the British Empire as the new United States of America. The entry of French and Spanish forces into the war tipped the military balance in the Americans' favour and after a decisive defeat at Yorktown in ...
The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
British control over the Province of Georgia is lost. 9 March – economist Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations. 17 March – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, [3] after George Washington commands the placement of artillery overlooking the city at Dorchester Heights, ending the 11‑month Siege of Boston.
First Ashanti War (1823–1831) British Empire Ashanti Empire: Inconclusive or other outcome. Stalemate after armistice; Bathurst War (1824) United Kingdom: Wiradjuri: British victory: First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) East India Company. Native tribes Burmese Empire: British Allied victory. Treaty of Yandabo:
1776 establishments in the British Empire (1 C, 4 P) A. American Revolutionary War (22 C, 79 P) I. 1776 in Ireland (1 C, 1 P) N. 1776 in Nova Scotia (1 P) P.
This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels. Chandler, David G., and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds. The Oxford history of the British army (Oxford UP, 2003). Cole, D. H and E. C Priestley.
The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781780742465. Page, Anthony (2014). Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 9781137474438. Pratt, Julius William (1971).
Map of the British and French settlements in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763), which was part of the Seven Years' War. The boundary between British and French possessions in North America was largely undefined in the 1750s. France had long claimed the entire Mississippi River basin. This was disputed by ...