The American Revolution

1
The American Revolution

• Review

2
Stages of the War

• 1775- Summer 1776
• 1776-1778
• 1778-1783

3
Opposing sides

• Great Britain
• Loyalists and Indians
• Hessian mercenaries

4
Opposing Sides

• United States, France, Spain, Holland.
• Ireland (resistive)
• Russia, Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Holy Roman
  Empire, Prussia, Portugal, Two Sicilies.

5
The War Ends

• Cornwallis, Yorktown, the French
• The Spanish
• Final treaty, 1783.