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American Revolutionary War
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Clockwise from top left: Battle of Bunker Hill, Death of Montgomery at Quebec, Battle of Cowpens, "Moonlight Battle"
Date1775–1783
Location
ResultTreaty of Paris
Territorial
changes
Britain recognizes independence of the United States, cedes East Florida, West Florida, and Minorca to Spain and Tobago to France.
Dutch ceded Negapatnam to Britain.
Belligerents

 United States
France France
Spain Spain
 Dutch Republic
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United Kingdom Great Britain
United Kingdom Loyalists
Hesse Hesse-Kassel
Germany Waldeck-Pyrmont
Flagge Herzogtum Braunschweig.svgBrunswick-Lüneburg

Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg Iroquois Confederacy
Commanders and leaders

United States George Washington
United States Nathanael Greene
United States Horatio Gates
United States Charles Lee  #
United States John Paul Jones
United States Tadeusz Kościuszko
United States Kazimierz Pułaski 
United States Benedict Arnold
United States Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
United States Richard Montgomery 
United States Marquis de La Fayette
France Comte de Rochambeau
France Comte de Grasse
France Bailli de Suffren
France Louis Guillouet d'Orvilliers
Spain Bernardo de Gálvez

Spain Luis de Córdova y Córdova

United Kingdom Sir William Howe
United Kingdom Thomas Gage
United Kingdom Sir Henry Clinton
United Kingdom Lord Cornwallis #
United Kingdom Sir Guy Carleton
United Kingdom John Burgoyne #
United Kingdom George Eliott
United Kingdom Banastre Tarleton  #
United Kingdom Francis Rawdon
United Kingdom Benedict Arnold
Hesse Johann Rall  
Hesse Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Flagge Herzogtum Braunschweig.svg Friedrich Adolf Riedesel

Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg Joseph Brant
Strength
27,000 Continentals,
13,500 French,
8,000 Spanish,
Patriot militia
(All figures peak strength)
15,200 British regulars,
5,200 Provincial regulars,
10,765 German regulars,
5,000 natives,
Loyalist militia
(All figures peak strength)
Casualties and losses
~25,000 killed (Americans)~27,294 killed (Germans + British seamen)

The American Revolutionary War was a war fought between Great Britain and the original Thirteen Colonies in North America from 1775 to 1783. Most of the fighting was in North America and other places. The Continental Army, the rebel army, was led by George Washington and helped by France and Spain. They defeated the British Army after the British moved their attention to other matters.

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