Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

The siege of Yorktown was among the most wisely planned ... four or five times that of the enemy -- with abundance of artillery and a powerful cooperating French fleet; we have probably ten ...

To correct the carrier’s listing, guns and aircraft had already ... The battles of Midway and Coral Sea, where Yorktown also suffered battle damage a month earlier, have long been priorities ...