THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Causes of the War Main cause was solitary neglect

The act of Britain leaving its established colonies to fend for themselves to focus on developing new colonies

Minor escalating causes (British) Sugar Act Declatory Acts Stamp Act Townshed Acts Boston Massacre Coersive Acts (intolerable Acts)

Minor escalating causes (Colonists) Sons of Liberty Boston Massacre Committees of Correspondence Boston Tea Party Arms build up

War Begins After some small but no less important fights with the British the

(Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill) the Colonists split into two factions. (loyalists and Patriots)

Loyalists created the Olive Branch Petition Patriots created Common Sense and the Declaration of

Independence

British Strategies Isolate Boston (New England) Plan 1 and

2 FAILED This plan included the battles from Lexington and Concord (1775) to

Battle of Saratoga (1777) British planned to contain the seeds of rebellion first to Boston and

later to New England. British had a hard time engaging the American forces and eventually

failed in their strategy when the British were defeated at Saratoga. Sweep from south up and North Down

FAILED This plan began shortly after the battle of Saratoga. General Clinton (British) ordered General Cornwallis (British) to move

South and sweep North and meet up with Clinton in Virginia This strategy failed when Washington and the French surrounded the

British at Yorktown Virginia

MAP OF THE WAR

WEAPONS OF THE WAR

The Stats GENERAL INFO:

Population (1760)........ 1,600,000 Population (1780)........ 2,780,000Enrolled......................... 200,000Ratio............................... 5.7%Cost of war (1782)........ $134,645,177 National debt (1783).... $36,500,375 BATTLE CASUALTIESKilled:Army....... 4,044Navy........ 342Marines... 49TOTAL.... 4,435

Wounded:Army........ 6,004Navy......... 114Marines.... 70TOTAL..... 6,188

TOTAL..... 10,682Ratio.............................. 2.4% Ratio-killed................... 2.2%Ratio-dead.................... 2.2%Ratio-casualties............ 5.3%K.I.A per Month........... 55

Total Deaths (combat/non-combat)... 25,324Wounded................................................. 8,445