Political protest escalates into violence. War gives thirteen colonies a common cause.

Opposition in colonial North America to British policies escalates into violence. But war gives thirteen otherwise disunited colonies a common cause.

Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.