About: British Army during the American War of Independence   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The British Army during the American War of Independence served for eight years in campaigns fought across the globe. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-American force ultimately led to the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in North America, and the concluding Treaty of Paris deprived Britain of many of the gains achieved in the Seven Years' War. However several victories elsewhere meant that much of the British Empire remained intact.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • British Army during the American War of Independence
rdfs:comment
  • The British Army during the American War of Independence served for eight years in campaigns fought across the globe. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-American force ultimately led to the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in North America, and the concluding Treaty of Paris deprived Britain of many of the gains achieved in the Seven Years' War. However several victories elsewhere meant that much of the British Empire remained intact.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Last
  • Chichester
First
  • Henry M
wstitle
  • Howe, William
abstract
  • The British Army during the American War of Independence served for eight years in campaigns fought across the globe. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-American force ultimately led to the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in North America, and the concluding Treaty of Paris deprived Britain of many of the gains achieved in the Seven Years' War. However several victories elsewhere meant that much of the British Empire remained intact. In 1775 the British army was a volunteer force that numbered just over 45,000 men thinly spread out in various locations globally. The army had suffered from lack of peacetime spending and ineffective recruitment in the decade since the Seven Years War, circumstances which had left it in a dilapidated state at the outbreak of war in North America. To offset this the British government quickly hired contingents of German mercenaries to serve as auxiliaries alongside the regular army units in campaigns from 1776. Limited army impressment was also introduced in England and Scotland to bolster recruitment in 1778, however the practice proved too unpopular and was proscribed again in 1780. The attrition of constant fighting, the inability of the Royal Navy to decisively defeat the French Navy, and the withdrawal of the majority of British forces from North America in 1778 ultimately led to the British army's defeat. The loss of Cornwallis's army at Yorktown allowed the Whig opposition to gain a majority in parliament, and British operations were brought to an end.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software