Raise a Glass to Freedom: Revolution in the American Colonies

The date is July 4,1776, and the American Colonies have just written and passed the Declaration of Independence at the meeting of the Second Continental Congress. The Revolutionary war is in its earliest stages, and battles have broken out already in the past year at Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill. The Continental Army has been established for only a year, and the army still appears somewhat disorganized and battles have not reached an entirely large scale yet. Though the Revolutionary War was fought primarily by the opposing American Continental and British Armies, there are other parties that have stakes in this war. The American Colonies cannot be successful without aid from their potential French allies. As the war begins to unfold, will the British squash the revolution of the self-proclaimed independent American Colonists? Can the American patriots defend their brand new republic? How will other actors, such as European powers, loyalist colonists, indigenous people, impact and intervention in the conflict? It is up to this crisis committee to determine the course of the American Revolution, and decide on the future of the establishment of the independent United States of America.