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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
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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
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).... $36,500,375BATTLE CASUALTIESKilled:Army....... 4,044Navy........ 342Marines... 49TOTAL.... 4,435 Wounded:Army........ 6,004Navy......... 114Marines.... 70TOTAL..... 6,188TOTAL..... 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
