The war never occurred
The year Obama was born
The year is unknown
1776
Correct answer: None of the above. It began in 1775. You can look it up.
Thanks. I had thought it started when the Americans officially declared their independence in ‘76 and the British invaded New York. I was well aware of these other events. In fact, I just this AM posted a thread with links to a great PBS documentary series on the war and the events leading up to it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3307707/posts
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From wiki...
“In February 1775 Parliament declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, the British North American commander-in chief, commanded four regiments of British regulars (about 4,000 men) from his headquarters in Boston, but the countryside was in the hands of the Revolutionaries. On April 14, he received orders to disarm the rebels and arrest their leaders.
On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts. Riders including Paul Revere alerted the countryside, and when British troops entered Lexington on the morning of April 19, they found 77 Minutemen formed up on the village green. Shots were exchanged, killing several Minutemen. The British moved on to Concord, where a detachment of three companies was engaged and routed at the North Bridge by a force of 500 minutemen. As the British retreated back to Boston, thousands of militiamen attacked them along the roads, inflicting many casualties before timely British reinforcements prevented a total disaster. With the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the war had begun.[33]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#Outbreak_of_the_War_1775.E2.80.9376
You are correct. “On the 18th of April in ‘75, there is hardly a man who is now alive, that remembers that famous day and year ...”