American Revolutionary War

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War at sea

Main article: Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War

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Meanwhile the co-operation of the French became active. In July Count Rochambeau arrived at Newport, Rhode Island. That place had been occupied by the British from 1776 to the close of 1779. An unsuccessful attempt was made to drive them out in 1778 by the Patriots assisted by the French admiral d'Estaing and a French corps.

Related Topics:
Count Rochambeau - D'Estaing

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• First Battle of Ushant - July 27, 1778
• John Paul Jones
• Continental Navy
• Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)
• Second Battle of Ushant - December 12, 1781

Gulf Coast

After Spain declared war against Great Britain in June of 1779, Count Bernardo de Gálvez, the governor of Louisiana, seized three British Mississippi River outposts: Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. Gálvez then captured Mobile on March 14, 1780, and in May of 1781 forced the surrender of the British outpost at Pensacola, Florida. On May 8, 1782, Gálvez captured the British naval base at New Providence in the Bahamas.

Related Topics:
Bernardo de Gálvez - Louisiana - Mississippi River - Manchac - Baton Rouge - Natchez - Mobile - March 14 - Forced the surrender - Pensacola, Florida - May 8 - 1782

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Caribbean

• Battle of the Saintes

India

The Franco-British war spilled over into India in 1780, in the form of the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The two chief antagonists here were Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a key French ally, and the British government of Madras. The Anglo-Mysore conflict was bloody but inconclusive, and ended in a draw at the Treaty of Mangalore in 1784.

Related Topics:
India - 1780 - Second Anglo-Mysore War - Tipu Sultan - Kingdom of Mysore - Madras - Treaty of Mangalore - 1784

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Netherlands

Also in 1780, the British struck against the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War to preempt Dutch involvement in the League of Armed Neutrality, directed primarily against the British Navy during the war. Agitation by Dutch radicals, and a friendly attitude towards the United States by the Dutch government, influenced by the American Revolution also encouraged the British to attack. The war lasted into 1784 and was disastrous to the Dutch mercantile economy.

Related Topics:
1780 - United Provinces - Netherlands - Fourth Anglo-Dutch War - League of Armed Neutrality - 1784

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Mediterranean

On 5 February 1782 Spanish and French forces captured Minorca; it was recovered by the British in 1798.

Related Topics:
5 February - 1782 - Minorca

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Whitehaven

An interesting footnote to this war was the actual landing on Britain itself of a fleet from the US Navy. This occurred in 1778 when the Cumbrian port of Whitehaven was raided by John Paul Jones. The landing was a surprise attack, taken as an action of revenge by Jones, and was never intended as an invasion. Nevertheless, it caused hysteria in England, with the attack showing a weakness that could be exploited by other states such as France or Spain. Its result was an intense period of fortification in British ports.

Related Topics:
Britain - Navy - 1778 - Cumbrian - Whitehaven - John Paul Jones - England - France - Spain

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