North America · Animated schematic fronts

American Revolutionary War

The thirteen colonies’ struggle for independence, with international participation.

This war had no continuous front. The line is a schematic limit of advance and operations: it summarises campaigns and is not a trench line or an administrative border. The coloured areas are operational sides, not evidence of contiguous occupation; in-between frames are interpolated and closing edges are graphic. Only the British southern campaign (1778–1781) is shown as a line; in the north the British mainly held ports such as New York.