Western theater of the American Revolutionary War

Western theater
Part of the American Revolutionary and Indian Wars

The Fall of Fort Sackville by F. C. Yohn shows the British surrender of Fort Sackville at Vincennes to George Rogers Clark, marking the beginning of the end of British domination in America’s western frontier.
Date1775–1782
Location
Result Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
United Colonies
(1775–1776)
United States
(1776–1782)
 Spain (from 1779)
Quapaw (from 1779)
 Great Britain
Chickasaw
Shawnee
Miami
Lenape
Seneca
Wyandot
Commanders and leaders
United States George Rogers Clark
United States William Crawford Executed
Spanish Empire Fernando de Leyba
Spanish Empire Francisco Cruzat
Kingdom of Great Britain Henry Hamilton Surrendered
Kingdom of Great Britain Arent DePeyster
Blackfish 
Captain Pipe
Strength
700+ 600+
Casualties and losses
120+ 40+

The western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was the area of conflict west of the Appalachian Mountains, the region which became the Northwest Territory of the United States as well as what would become the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, and Tennessee. The western war was fought between American Indians with their British allies in Detroit, and American settlers south and east of the Ohio River, and also the Spanish as allies of the latter.


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