Revolutionary War Facts
Most of the colonies were founded by those seeking religious freedom economic opportunity and fleeing persecution. In what proved to be the largest battle of the Revolutionary War in terms of total combatants Washingtons forces on August 22 1776 were flanked out of their positions atop the Gowanus Heights part of todays modern Brooklyn and soundly defeated. American Revolution Revolutionary War Facts Maps And Statistics By Wise Guys American Revolution also called United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War 177583 insurrection by which 13 of Great Britain s North American colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. Revolutionary war facts . Here writing for History Extra Professor Stephen Conway from University College London reveals 10 lesser-known facts about the 18th-century conflict which saw the rebellion of 13 of the North American colonies of Great Britain declare themselves independent as the United States of Ame