Timeline Independence War USA

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USA Independence War

1781

1773

1775

1777

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Boston Tea Party

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Yorktown

1776

1778

1783

1774

First International congress

Open War

The Virginia Bill of Rights

Treaty of Paris

Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was an American political protest by the settlers of Boston (Massachusetts) on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The settlers of Boston strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. Protesters, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of rebellion.The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act believing it violated their rights of "no taxation without representation".Protesters had prevented the unloading of tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, the Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Great Britain.

First International Congress

The first continental congress convened in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelfia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British agression.The list of delegates included two future presidents of the United States: George Washington and John Adams The first International Congress was prompted by the Coercive Acts, known in America as the Intolerable Acts, which Parliament passed in early 1774 to reassert its dominance over the American colonies (after what happened in the Boston Tea Party

Battles of Lexintong and Concord

The Battles of Lexigton and Concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war. The battles were fougth on April 19, 1775, in the province of Massachusetts Bay.The marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the United Kingdom and its thirteen colonies in America. Everything started when the colonial leaders adopted the Suffolk Resolves in resistance to the alterations made to the Massachusetts colonial goverment by the British parliament. The colonial assembly responded by a forming a Patriot provisional goverment known as the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. In response, the British government in February 1775 declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion.

(Lexington)

(Concord bridge)

The Virginia Declaration of Rights

The Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" goverment.It influenced a number of later documents, including: the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United States Bill of Rights (1789). The Declaration was adopted by the Fifth Virginia Convention at Williamsburg, Virginia on June 12, 1776, as a separate document from the Constitution of Virginia which was later adopted on June 29, 1776. A slightly updated version may still be seen in Virginia's Constitution, making it legally in effect to this day.

Battles of Saratoga

The Battle of Saratoga ocurred between September 19 and October 7 of 1777. It marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolucionary War. The British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of about 7.500 men southward from Canada, hoping to meet a similar British force marching northward from New York City and another British force marching eastward from Lake Ontario to take Albany, New York. The other forces never arrived so Burgoyne got surrounded by American forces in upstate New York, 15 miles short of his goal. The british gained the first battle but then they lost the other two. The last one was held in Saratoga, 9 miles short of his goal.

Open War

While the Independence War was happening between British and their thirteen colonies in America, the spanish and french kingdoms made an alliance between them with the "Family Pacts". Because of the rivalry between France and Great Britain the French crown sent military staff to the American colonies to help them and Spain did the same because of the alliance between the and France. So everything started to become more agressive with more figths and deaths in both sides. Which derivated also into an important economy lost in Great Britain.

Battle of Yorktown

The Battle of Yorktown took place during the War of Independence of the United States of America between September 26 and October 19, 1781. It faced the colonist and their frech allies (both those officially sent under the comand of the Count of Rochambeau and the volunteers of the Marquis de La Fayette) against the British under the orders of Lord Cornwallis.

Treaty of Paris

The Treaty of Paris was the last thing that happened in the War of Independence. After seeing all the wars, deaths and economic crisis, Great Britain decided to give up against the Americans. They signed this treaty with the colonist to officially end up the Independence War and to make Independent the thirteen American Colonies (Independence of the United States of America). It was signed on September 3, 1783 in Paris by representatives of King George III (Great Britain) and representatives of the United States of America. Great Britain also signed a treaty with the nations that supported the USA (France, Spain and the dutch republic), it was called the peace of Paris.