The Statesian Revolution was a bourgeois revolution[1] by North American colonists against the Kingdom of Great Britain to establish the United States of America. It culminated in the Statesian Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. US founder John Adams estimated that a third of the settler population opposed the revolution, a third supported it, and another third were neutral.[2]
Revolutionary War
The rebels lost the first battles of the Revolutionary War, including Bunker Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Harlem Heights. The war changed course when the rebels won a battle at Saratoga, New York in 1777. Benjamin Franklin negotiated an alliance with France, which blockaded the British and prevented them from receiving supplies and reinforcements. The continental army defeated the British at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781.[2]
Mutinies
On January 1, 1781, troops from Pennsylvania near Morristown, New Jersey, killed their captain and began marching toward the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. George Washington told General Anthony Wayne not to use force and negotiated a peace in which half of the mutineers were discharged and the other half were given paid leave. Soon after, another mutiny of 200 men began in the New Jersey Line. This mutiny was quickly defeated and two of its leaders were executed.[2]
References
- ↑ John Peterson (2011-12-14). "Class Struggle and the American Revolution" In Defense of Marxism.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Howard Zinn (1980). A People's History of the United States: 'A Kind of Revolution' (pp. 80–84). [PDF] HarperCollins. ISBN 0060194480