The American Revolution is also known as the United States War of Independence, was a 1775-1783 insurgency in which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies rebelled against British rule in order to establish the sovereign United States of America, which was founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
The French Alliance (1777)
Between September 5 and October 26, 1774, the first continental congress met in the carpenters' hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies sent delegates to examine the country's future in the face of escalating British aggressiveness.
Battle of Yorktown (August-October 1781)
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step ofdeclaring America's independence from Britain.
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
It formalized Frances's financial and military assistance to America's revolutionary government. During the Revolutionary war, the colonies forged an alliance with France against Great Britain, believing that allying with a great nation would aid them militarily.
The allied armies marched hundreds of miles from their headquarters north of new york city to Yorktown, making it the American Revolution's greatest army movement. They caught the British off guard in a siege that helped the Americans win the war for independance.
The Treaty of Paris of 1763ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.