• the present-day Honduran island of Roatán was the site of a battle in the American War of Independence on March 16, 1782?
• the Franco-American alliance (Battle of Yorktown pictured) was sealed in February 1778 by Benjamin Franklin, officializing French support in the American War of Independence?
• in 1922, Henry Pellew, an American citizen, inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth, created for his grandfather who fought for the British during the American War of Independence?

Facts on topics related to American War of Independence

Northwest Indian War

• Fort Jefferson, built as a supply depot, endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War?

Battles of the American Revolutionary War

• the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War?

American Revolutionary War

• American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
• George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest" because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War?
• Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
• Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, an admiral in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War, was briefly imprisoned during the War in the Vendée?
• Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
• Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?
• Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
• Fort Randolph (pictured) was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?
• George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War?
• Huletts Landing, New York (pictured) is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?