During the American Revolutionary War, the sentiment of the colonists concerning conflict varied considerably. Some were against conflict of any kind, while some embraced it as necessary and even desirable. Many others occupied a middle position, with the desire to achieve independence (or simply more independence) but through as little actual conflict as might be possible.
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The conflict that started the Revolutionary War was, in economic terms, the repressive taxation of the colonies by the English home-country, along with other perceived injustices. The conflict that served as the military spark of the War occurred in April of 1775 at Lexington, then at Concord, in Massachusetts, where colonial militia squared off with menacing British troops.
England.
American revolutionaries were aided by France.
If you are talking about America, then Great Britain. Great Britain told the Americans that they were the "mother country" and the colonists were "children". The colonists soon grew tired of being "children" and having their "mother" tax them on goods, as well as freedoms. So they decided to revolt.
France. Franklin, Adams , and Jefferson went to France to get their help.