Ryan Houghton: The Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War The below is an exert from an essay examing the impact of foreign influence on the American Revolutionary War. This was an undergraduate essay and while factual is meant more as informative. The American Revolutionary War spanned from 1775-1783.The conflict saw the death of over 100,000 British and American servicemen, with third party states also suffering large causalities. The conclusion of the war, cemented in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, gave peace to the conflict and official recognition to the United States of America.1 With five European states and a host of Native American tribes involved, foreign intervention was very much a part of this war. On November 30th, 1777, nearly one year in post as commissioner to France, Benjamin Franklin was informed of two events. First, that Philadelphia had fallen to the Americans, and “greater news than that, General Burgoyne and his army are prisoners.” This news brought with it the likely certa...