Who did we fight during the revolutionary war?
~Surely you can remember how to use a search engine? I’m sure if you pop “American Revolution” into one, anything you find might identify the belligerents. Of course, you must identify “we”. At the peak of the independence movement, only 1/3 of the colonists favored the cause. Of the balance, half remained loyal and half never chose sides (thus, I suppose, since they did not support the treason, they too remained loyal). It was not a revolution. The goal was for colonial independence, not the overthrow of the national government of Great Britain. It was a war for colonial independence or a civil war, with British fighting British. The French, Spanish and Dutch sided with one faction and various Germanic Principalities the other (there was no such thing as “Germany” at the time), largely by the loan or rent of armies and/or troops to the Crown and Parliament. Some of the so-called Hessian troops were subjects of King George III in his capacity as Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and next in l
