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The simple answer is Britain. But history rarely is simple.
First of all, many of the "British" who fought against the revolting colonials were fellow colonials who remained loyal to Britain. Some historians say that only about one-third of American colonists favored independence, while an almost equal number opposed revolution! Many Loyalists fought for the British.
Second, North America simply was another field of battle for European rivals to cripple each other -- or friendly nations to strengthen ties with stronger empires.
That was why German states "rented" thousands of mercenaries, mostly from the state of Hesse, to the British.
On the other side, the main European participant was France -- a continual foe of the English since 1066, when William of Normandy sailed from France and conquered England.
French intellectuals and idealists enthusiastically supported the ideas in the Declaration of Independence, part of a movement leading to the French Revolution in 1789.
Many individual Frenchmen joined the rebels, the best known being the Marquis de Lafayette. At age 19, he was commissioned a general in George Washington's Continental Army.
But the French government refused to intervene until the revolutionaries' decisive victory in fall 1777 at Saratoga (winning two battles on the same field, September 19 and October 7).
French troops and supplies turned the tide of the war, and the large French fleet neutralized the individually superior British ships. In 1781 the French blockaded Yorktown, Va., where the powerful British army led by Lord Cornwallis was trapped. Cornwallis' surrender ended the final confrontation of the war before a peace treaty was signed in 1783 in Paris recognizing the new nation.
Also gaining from the treaty were Spain and the Netherlands, who declared war when British defeat was imminent. For minimal risk and little contribution, they won key trade concessions from Britain.
The two main countries fighting in the Revolutionary War were England and America.
The first two battles of the Revolutionary War that were fought were the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Most of the Iroquois fought on the British side. The Oneida stayed neutral for the first two years and then joined the colonists.
the revolutionary war the revolutionary war the American revolution is the right answer not the two up there
That would be World War II ( 1939-1945) The American civil war was 1861-1865. The revolutionary war was between 1775 and 1783. So in order of dates, would be the revolutionary war, the civil war and world war II.
The two events that happened in Boston before the American Revolutionary War started were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.