Revolutionary War Timeline

  • 1765 BCE

    stamp act

    the british parliament was involved It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
  • valley forage

    as many as 12,000 Continentals, as well as smaller numbers of African American and Native American soldiers shortages of everything from food to clothing to medicine the site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of the Continental Army under General George Washington.
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    French Indian War

    the french indian war was a theater of the seven years war, which pitted the north American colonies of the british empire against those of the french each side being supported by various native american tribes
  • boston massacre

    boston massacre
    nine British soldiers. British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. helped galvanize Boston and the colonies against the mother country.
  • declaration of independence

    The Committee of Five. The committee consisted of two New England men, John Adams of Massachusetts and Roger Sherman of Connecticut; two men from the Middle Colonies, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Robert R. Livingston of New York; and one southerner, Thomas Jefferson. f the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
  • battle of yorktown

    British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops.British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington. led directly to the peace negotiations that ended the war in 1783 and gave America its independence.
  • treaty of paris

    Spanish, French, British, and American representatives.ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation