American War for Independence

American Revolutionary War

Clockwise from top left: Surrender of Lord Cornwallis after the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Trenton, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Long Island, Battle of Guilford Court House

Date	April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 (8 years, 4 months and 15 days) Ratification effective: May 12, 1784
Location	Eastern North America, Caribbean Sea, Indian subcontinent,Central America, Europe,Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean
Result	Peace of Paris American independence recognized by Great Britain End of the First British Empire Iroquois Confederacy shattered
Territorial changes	Great Britain cedes area east of Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the United States Great Britain cedes East Florida, West Florida and Minorca to Spain Great Britain cedes Tobago and Senegal to France Dutch Republic cedes Negapatnam to Great Britain

Belligerents

Thirteen Colonies (before 1776)
United States (after 1776)
Vermont (from 1777)
France (from 1778)

Spain (from 1779)
Netherlands
Mysore

Native Americans

Great Britain

German auxiliaries

Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Hanau
Hanover
Waldeck
Brunswick
Ansbach
Anhalt-Zerbst

Native Americans

Iroquois Confederacy

Commanders and leaders

George Washington
Nathanael Greene
Horatio Gates
Esek Hopkins
Marquis de Lafayette
Comte de Rochambeau
Comte de Grasse

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Sir William Howe
Thomas Gage
Sir Guy Carleton
Sir Henry Clinton
Lord Cornwallis
John Burgoyne
Richard Howe
Wilhelm Knyphausen
Baron Riedesel

...full list

Strength

United States:
40,000 (Average)
5,000 Continental Navy sailors (at height in 1779)
no ships of the line
53 other ships (active at some point during the war)

Allies:
36,000 French (in America)
63,000 French and Spanish (at Gibraltar)
146 ships of the line (active 1782)

Native Allies: Unknown

Great Britain:
Army:
48,000 (average, North America only)
7,500 (at Gibraltar)
Navy:
94 ships of the line (active 1782)
171,000 Sailors

Loyalist forces:
19,000 (total number that served)

German auxiliaries:
30,000 (total number that served)

Native Allies: 13,000

Casualties and losses

United States:
6,824 killed in battle
25,000–70,000 dead from all causes
Overall casualties up to 50,000
France: 10,000 battle deaths (75% at sea) Spain: 5,000 killed

Netherlands: 500 killed

Great Britain:
4,000 army troops killed in battle (North America only)
27,000 army troops died of disease (North America)
1,243 navy killed in battle, 42,000 deserted, 18,500 died from disease (1776–1780)
At least 51,000 dead from all causes

Germans: 1,800 killed in battle
4,888 deserted
7,774 dead from all causes

Peace of Paris

Thirteen Colonies (before 1776)
United States (after 1776)
Vermont (from 1777)
France (from 1778)

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