In the center of Lexington, USA, stands a statue of a militia with a gun. The militiamen are full of energy, with their feet firmly on the stone wall and their eyes staring warily ahead.

There is a very simple stone tablet below. The inscription reads: Hold your ground. Don't shoot before the enemy shoots; However, if the enemy insists on imposing war on us, let the war start here! This is to commemorate the first battle of the famous American Revolutionary War-the Battle of Lexington.

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/kloc-At the end of 0/5, the Spanish opened a new route to America. In the next four centuries, the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British fought fiercely around the ownership of North American colonies and maritime hegemony.

By the middle of18th century, Britain had become the owner of most land in North America. The cruel colonial rule of the British colonial government aroused the resistance of the North American people.

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War process

In the American War of Independence (1775~ 1778), the main battlefield was in the north, and the British army took the initiative. The overall strategy of the British army is to control the east coast of North America with the navy, and at the same time, to open up the front lines of lake champlain and Hudson Valley from Canada and new york with the army, isolate the New England colony that is the most determined to Britain, and then carve up other colonies one by one. The colonial power is weak, and basically the policy of avoiding decisive battle, preserving strength, destroying the enemy with a camera and winning foreign aid is adopted.

1783 On September 3rd, the British king and representatives of various colonies signed the Treaty of Paris at Versailles, and Britain officially recognized the establishment of the United States of America. Article *** 10 of the Peace Treaty and Article 1 of the Peace Treaty stipulate that "His Majesty the King recognizes the United States as a free, independent and autonomous country". The contents also include: confirming that the American border starts from the Atlantic coast in the east, reaches the Mississippi River in the west, connects the Great Lakes region of Canada in the north, and reaches the northern border of Florida in the south.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-War of Independence