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Hace 3 días · Canadian theater, 1775-1776. The Battle of Trois-Rivières was also known as the Battle of Three Rivers. The British army, under Quebec Governor Sir Guy Carleton, in pursuit of an American force. They defeated an American counterattack, led by Gen. John Sullivan.
Hace 6 días · After the Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773), Parliament responded with the Intolerable Acts (1774), a series of punitive measures that were intended to cow the restive population into obedience. The 1691 charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was abrogated, and the colony’s elected ruling council was replaced with a military government ...
Hace 6 días · 1775 - September 3, 1783. Location: United States. Participants: Dutch Republic. France. loyalist. Spain. United Kingdom. United States. American colonies. Major Events: Battle of Brandywine. Battle of Bunker Hill. Battle of Monmouth. Battles of Saratoga. Battle of Bemis Heights. (Show more)
- What was the American Revolution?The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- How did the American Revolution begin?On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- What were the major causes of the American Revolution?The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Which countries fought on the side of the colonies during the American Revolution?Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- How was the American Revolution a civil war?In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
Hace 1 día · Trent attempted to regain solvency by transitioning to large-scale land speculation and sales. He invested and participated in managing two large investor land consortiums, the Ohio Company and the Indiana Company. In 1769, Trent sailed to London to obtain Royal charters, securing the rights to vast tracts of land in the Ohio Valley.
Hace 1 día · The military history of Canada comprises hundreds of years of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and interventions by the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide. For thousands of years, the area that would become Canada was the site of sporadic intertribal conflicts among Aboriginal peoples.
Hace 4 días · The exact number of British soldiers taken as prisoners appears to be unknown, but "about thirty" is likely close to the truth. Professor T. Cole Jones, author of Captives of Liberty, notes in his dissertation on prisoners of war in the American Revolution that the count ranged from twenty-four as reported by British Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, twenty-eight according to Major-General ...
Hace 5 días · 1,690 captured/missing. The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant 's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
