What was the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

It was the war between American colonist and there home country England(at the time) it last from1775 through 1783 the colonist were mad about all the taxes they have been given
The revolutionary war was the war Colonists fought against British. The colonists did not want the taxes and rules Britain gave them and they started war. The colonists were the Americans. There were also some foreigners brought it (Germans, French, Spanish) that also participated in the war and some became generals.

Answer 2

The revolutionary war was when the Americans were fighting the British for Independence from the British rule that America was under. On October 19, 1781, the decisive military campaign of the American Revolution culminated with the British surrender to combined American and French forces under the command of George Washington. The Siege of Yorktown effectively ended the six-year struggle of the Revolutionary War and set the stage for a new government and nation.

Today the Yorktown Victory Center, a museum of the American Revolution, chronicles America's evolution from colonial status to nationhood through a unique blend of timeline, film, thematic exhibits and outdoor living history.

An open-air exhibit walkway details events that led to American colonies to declare independence from Britain.

A rare broadside printing of the Declaration

of Independence is on display at the Yorktown

Victory Center. The historic document was

co-published in Boston on or about July 18,

1776, by John Gill and Edward E. Powars

and Nathaniel Willis. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation collection.

Indoor exhibition galleries portray the Declaration of Independence as a revolutionary document that attracted international attention, recount the war's impact on 10 ordinary men and women who left a record of their experiences, highlight the roles of different nationalities at the Siege of Yorktown, and explore the story of the Betsy and other British ships lost in the York River during the siege. Exhibits also describe how people from many different cultures shaped a new society and the development of a new government with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Outdoors, visitors can explore a re-created Continental Army encampment, where historical interpreters describe and depict daily life of American soldiers at the end of the war.

The Historic Triangle Shuttle, the free public transportation system connecting Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, operates between March 22 and October 31. The shuttle departs every 30 minutes from the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center to Yorktown between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. For visitors riding to Yorktown, the Yorktown Trolley provides free service between the Yorktown Battlefield Visitor Center and the Yorktown Victory Center, as well as stops in the historic village and at Riverwalk Landing.