French Revolutionary Wars

Throughout history every war has a name when the Commander and Chief decide to engage in a war. On 28th September 1781 the battle of Yorktown is also known as the Siege of Yorktown as historians called the war begin. The battle of Yorktown was the last big war of the American Revolution War. The major point of this paper will be on how the Continental army joins forces with the French army. Who commanded the British soldiers and who commanded the combined arms of the French and American…

Also, it confirmed an alliance between the U.S and the French. This document also helped the U.S get French's help in the war against Britain. The Revolutionary War comes to a close third. This war was fought between 1775-1783. The Revolutionary War is also known as the war of independence. This war simply began with a confrontation between the British troops and the local militia in Lexington and Concord. Most men between the…

Steeple; and if by Land, one, as a signal” (Paul Revere). These are the famous words from a very famous Revolutionary War hero. Many people believe that they know all there is to know about Paul Revere and his life’s accomplishments. However, people do not know about his upbringing from adolescent to a grown up, how he joined the Sons of Liberty, and his attributions to the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere’s parents’ names were Apollo Rivoire and Deborah Hitchborn. Paul Revere’s dad immigrated…

The Battles of Lexington and Concord started the Revolutionary War. Even though the battles didn’t occur until 1775, tension between the colonies and the British Parliament started over 10 years prior after they decided to start imposing taxes. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British Parliament was in debt. The colonies were prospering, so they looked to them as a way to help generate income. They told the colonies that the increase in taxes were their way to pay for…

from Britain. In 1776, America was catastrophically unprepared and ill-equipped to fight for independence; to be more specific, it was in a position that would lead to complete failure. In fact, to say that America was underprepared to declare war against Great Britain is a gross understatement. In A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, Stacey Schiff echoes this stance by…

actions to gain their independence from Britain has served as a microcosm in history to display how the American Revolution was crucial and influenced several movements around the world such as the French Revolution. Some might even argue that the French Revolution also inspired European revolutionary movements and the Russian Revolution around the 1940s. The thirteen colonies altered the way they were being run and developed a unique form of a democratic government after colonists saw…

American colonists were able to govern themselves before the French and Indian War. After that war, the British government tried to reaffirm itself and have more political and financial control over the colonies. The colonists took political action in order to get the government to let them be more independent. When those efforts failed, they decided that they needed to be completely liberated from Great Britain. The American colonists were justified in declaring their independence from Great…

On April 19, 1775 the original American colonies declared war on Great Britain, who up till now, owned and controlled the land and colonies. When the colonies were beginning, the British basically let them do their own thing for about a half a century. This was called the period of salutary neglect. Then the British Government decided to be more involved in the colonies. During this time the British started to create more laws and had british troops in the colonies enforce these laws. Since the…

The revolutionary war was a vast event that markedly impacted my life. The war took place from 1775 to 1783. In 1775 war erupted between America and England, but rapidly died out in 1776. That year, New York also claimed its independence. The major general for the entire war was George Washington, which is later why his colleagues named him president in 1789. Alexander Hamilton came to America in 1776, in which he pursued a war to prove orphans were worth more than anyone grasped. There was no…

few reasons why it started and one of the main reasons was the 7 Years War, as known as The French Indian War from 1754-1763. George Washington who was loyal to the British defeated the French as they started having conflicts because of the French’s expansion towards the Ohio river. Within the war, Canada was also allies with the British. In 1763, a peace treaty named ‘Peace of Paris’ was signed in Paris, officially ending French power in North America. The Great Awakening started from the…