The United States War of Independence, also known as the American Revolutionary War or the American Revolution of 1776, had its roots in the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which in 1763 ended the Seven Years' War. The thirteen colonies Represented by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia began to have continued and growing conflicts with the English metropolis. To the enormous expenses of the war, the metropolis increased the exploration in these areas. It was constituted in battles disputed against the English dominion. A movement with a large popular base, the main purpose of the colonial bourgeoisie was the proclamation, …show more content…
The English faced problems of lack of provisions, disjointed command, slow communication, hostile population, and lack of experience in fighting guerrilla tactics. The French Alliance (1778) changed the nature of the war, despite giving only modest help; England, from then on, began to focus on territorial disputes in Europe and the West and East Indies. The course of the war can be divided into two phases from 1778. The first phase to the north saw the capture of New York by the English (1776), and the campaign in the Hudson River Valley to isolate New England, which culminated in the defeat at Saratoga (1777), and the capture of Philadelphia (1777), after the victory at the Battle of Brandywine (Bailyn, …show more content…
France, Poland, Spain and Prussia, countries that were against England, came to the aid of the rebels by sending soldiers to aid in the war of independence. In 1780, the English were defeated in the naval battle of Chesapeake, on October 19 Of 1781, the English army, under the command of Lord Cornwallis, surrendered in Yorktown. On April 17, 1783, British Captain James Colbert with a group of 82 British supporters launched a surprise attack on the Charles Fort in Arkansas, on the edge of the Arkansas River. The "Colbert invasion" was the only action of the American Revolutionary War in the state of Arkansas. James Colbert attacked the Spanish-controlled fort in response to Spain's decision to side with the Americans during the