During the American war of independence, Martha's Vineyard was on the side of the revolution.

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England went through revolutionary traumas over a century before the American war of independence.

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After its costly involvement in the American War of Independence, the French elite decided to change its ways.

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The desire to maintain slavery was not the least motive for the American war of independence, in which some blacks fought on the British side.

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In 1775, in the American War of Independence, British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place at Breed's Hill near Boston.

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Both countries base their claims to sovereignty over the island on interpretations of unclear historical treaties, beginning with the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American War of Independence.

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