Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War

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Cover Page 1

Table of Contents 2

Introduction 3

Naval Operations of the American Revolutionary War 3

Concluding the war into an American Victory 5

Reference / Endnotes 6 Introduction

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783 , also known as the American War of Independence , began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent , and ended in a global war between several European great

powers . The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution , whereby the colonists rejected the right of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation

Naval Operations of the American Revolutionary War

The naval operations of the American Revolutionary War can be naturally divided into two periods . The first ranges from 1775 until the summer of 1778 , as the Royal Navy was engaged in cooperating with the troops employed against the American revolutionaries , on the coasts rivers and lakes of North America , or in endeavouring to protect British commerce against the enterprise of American privateers . During the second period , the successive interventions of France , Spain , and the Netherlands extended the naval war until it ranged from the West Indies to the Bay of Bengal . This second period lasted from the summer of 1778 to the middle of 1783 . Before France entered the conflict in 1778 , the naval war consisted of many small operations . When the war began , the British had 131 ships...