The Revolutionary War "1775" Official Thread

[Ben H. Phillips]

War breaks out (1775–1776)

On April 18, 1775, 700 troops were sent to confiscate militia ordnance stored at Concord. Fighting broke out, forcing the regulars to conduct a fighting withdrawal to Boston. Overnight, the local militia converged on and laid siege to Boston. On May 25, 4,500 British reinforcements arrived with generals William Howe, John Burgoyne, and Henry Clinton. The British seized the Charlestown peninsula on June 17 after a costly frontal assault, leading Howe to replace Gage. Many senior officers were dismayed at the attack, which had gained them little, while Gage wrote to London stressing the need for a large army to suppress the revolt. On July 3, George Washington took command of the Continental Army besieging Boston. Howe made no effort to attack, much to Washington's surprise. A plan was rejected to assault the city, and the Americans instead fortified Dorchester Heights in early March 1776 with heavy artillery captured from a raid on Fort Ticonderoga. The British were permitted to withdraw unmolested on March 17, and they sailed to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Washington then moved his army to New York.

Starting in August 1775, American Privateers began to raid villages in Nova Scotia, first at Saint John, then Charlottetown and Yarmouth. They continued in 1776 at Canso and then a land assault on Fort Cumberland.

Meanwhile, British officials in Quebec began lobbying Indian tribes to support them, while the Americans urged them to maintain their neutrality. In April 1775, Congress feared an Anglo-Indian attack from Canada and authorized an invasion of Quebec. Quebec had a largely Francophone population and had been under British rule for only 12 years, and the Americans expected that they would welcome being liberated from the British. The Americans attacked Quebec City on December 31 after an arduous march but were defeated. After a loose siege, the Americans withdrew on May 6. 1776. A failed counter-attack on June 8 ended American operations in Quebec. However, the British could not conduct an aggressive pursuit because of American ships on Lake Champlain. On October 11, the British defeated the American squadron, forcing them to withdraw to Ticonderoga and ending the campaign. The invasion cost the Patriots their support in British public opinion, while aggressive anti-Loyalist policies diluted Canadien support. The Patriots continued to view Quebec as a strategic aim, though no further attempts to invade were ever made.

In Virginia, Royal governor Lord Dunmore had attempted to disarm the militia as tensions increased, although no fighting broke out. He issued a proclamation on November 7, 1775 promising freedom for slaves who fled their Patriot masters to fight for the Crown. Dunmore's troops were overwhelmed by Patriots at Great Bridge, and Dunmore fled to naval ships anchored off Norfolk. Subsequent negotiations broke down, so Dunmore ordered the ships to destroy the town.

Fighting broke out on November 19 in South Carolina between Loyalist and Patriot militias, and the Loyalists were subsequently driven out of the colony. Loyalists were recruited in North Carolina to reassert colonial rule in the South, but they were decisively defeated and Loyalist sentiment was subdued. A troop of British regulars set out to reconquer South Carolina and launched an attack on Charleston on June 28, 1776, but it failed and effectively left the South in Patriot control until 1780.

The shortage of gunpowder had led Congress to authorize an expedition against the Bahamas colony in the British West Indies in order to secure ordnance there. On March 3, 1776, the Americans landed after a bloodless exchange of fire, and the local militia offered no resistance. They confiscated all the supplies that they could load and sailed away on March 17. The squadron reached New London, Connecticut on April 8, after a brief skirmish with the Royal Navy frigate HMS Glasgow on April 6.

Political reactions

After fighting began, Congress launched a final attempt to avert war, which Parliament rejected as insincere. King George then issued a Proclamation of Rebellion on August 23, 1775, which only served to embolden the colonists in their determination to become independent. After a speech by the King, Parliament rejected coercive measures on the colonies by 170 votes. British Tories refused to compromise, while Whigs argued that current policy would drive the colonists towards independence. Despite opposition, the King himself began micromanaging the war effort. The Irish Parliament pledged to send troops to America, and Irish Catholics were allowed to enlist in the army for the first time. Irish Protestants favored the Americans, while Catholics favored the King.

The initial hostilities provided a sobering military lesson for the British, causing them to rethink their views on colonial military capability. The weak British response gave the Patriots the advantage, and the British lost control over every colony. The army had been deliberately kept small in England since 1688 to prevent abuses of power by the King. Parliament secured treaties with small German states for additional troops and sent an army of 32,000 men to America after a year, the largest that it had ever sent outside Europe at the time.

In the colonies, the success of Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense had boosted public support for independence. On July 2, Congress voted in favor of independence with twelve affirmatives and one abstention, issuing its declaration on July 4. Washington read the declaration to his men and the citizens of New York on July 9, invigorating the crowd to tear down a lead statue of the King and melting it to make bullets. British Tories criticized the signatories for not extending the same standards of equality to slaves.

Patriots followed independence with the Test Laws, requiring residents to swear allegiance to the state in which they lived, intending to root out neutrals or opponents to independence. Failure to do so meant possible imprisonment, exile, or even death. American Tories were barred from public office, forbidden from practising medicine and law, forced to pay increased taxes, or even barred from executing wills or becoming guardians to orphans. Congress enabled states to confiscate Loyalist property to fund the war. Some Quakers who remained neutral had their property confiscated. States later prevented Loyalists from collecting any debts that they were owed.

The Revolutionary War “1775”  is set during one year of The American Revolutionary War which is 1775. We hope to presenting this Era in Cryengine, while also keeping Realism. Players can choose one of 2 factions Continental Army & the British Empire Players will Also be able to Fight on battlefields in this Era such as Battle of Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Etc.

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[~Midnight~]

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[[TRW] TheRevGuy]

Good Thread, BabyJesus Dont post rude things. this thread is a massive update

[Fartknocker]

What factions are going to be in this game? Also what time period will it be set in?

[fireboy]

What factions are going to be in this game? Also what time period will it be set in?

Will there be tanks?

[~Midnight~]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

[Duke Of LongTree]

this cant be real ?

[BabyJesus]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

[[TRW] TheRevGuy]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

We didnt remove the critisism comments the mods of this forum did,

[~Midnight~]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

We didnt remove the critisism comments the mods of this forum did,

My point still stands. They wouldn't just remove comments for no reason unless they directly held some form racism or other derogatory remarks that would FORCE them to delete the comments on their own. If you guys didn't delete them, then you asked them to delete them for you, which still means you censored criticism.

Edit: The two posts in question contained nothing that would constitute them being deleted. If they were a direct breach of forum rules, then myself and BabyJesus would be warned right now, but we're not.

[[TRW] TheRevGuy]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

We didnt remove the critisism comments the mods of this forum did,

My point still stands. They wouldn't just remove comments for no reason unless they directly held some form racism or other derogatory remarks that would FORCE them to delete the comments on their own. If you guys didn't delete them, then you asked them to delete them for you, which still means you censored criticism.

Edit: The two posts in question contained nothing that would constitute them being deleted. If they were a direct breach of forum rules, then myself and BabyJesus would be warned right now, but we're not.

i didnt even see your remark all i seen was BabyJesus's Remark whiclh is okay. and note that is a WIP thread. But all in all, good point.

[Moraine]

smh

[Unitater]

At least theres a decent consumer side presentation with this thread, though that forum is still pretty atrocious, no offense - and there is yet to be gameplay.

[Thunderstormer]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

We didnt remove the critisism comments the mods of this forum did,

My point still stands. They wouldn't just remove comments for no reason unless they directly held some form racism or other derogatory remarks that would FORCE them to delete the comments on their own. If you guys didn't delete them, then you asked them to delete them for you, which still means you censored criticism.

Edit: The two posts in question contained nothing that would constitute them being deleted. If they were a direct breach of forum rules, then myself and BabyJesus would be warned right now, but we're not.

a lot of assumptions in this post that are not true. 

[[TRW] TheRevGuy]

Wow, the comments by BabyJesus and my snickers joke were removed. The Dev's and their moderator already showing censorship to criticism! Sad!

We didnt remove the critisism comments the mods of this forum did,

My point still stands. They wouldn't just remove comments for no reason unless they directly held some form racism or other derogatory remarks that would FORCE them to delete the comments on their own. If you guys didn't delete them, then you asked them to delete them for you, which still means you censored criticism.

Edit: The two posts in question contained nothing that would constitute them being deleted. If they were a direct breach of forum rules, then myself and BabyJesus would be warned right now, but we're not.

a lot of assumptions in this post that are not true. 

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