Revolutionary War Pay Order - 1781-82 dated Deputy Quarter Master - Extremely Popular - American Revolution

Pay Order, 1781-82 for Lawful Silver Money to supply the army. The Deputy Quarter Master, Ralph Pomeroy signs at back. Usual Condition showing fold separations. Nicer than normal condition.

The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence or the Revolutionary War, was initiated by delegates from the thirteen American colonies in Congress against Great Britain over their objection to Parliament's taxation policies & lack of colonial representation. From their founding in the 1600s, the colonies were largely left to govern themselves. The cost of victory in the 1754 to 1763 French & Indian War & the 1756 to 1763 Seven Years' War left the British government deeply in debt; attempts to have the colonies pay for their own defense were vigorously resisted. The Stamp Act & Townshend Acts provoked colonial opposition & unrest, leading to the 1770 Boston Massacre & 1773 Boston Tea Party. When Parliament imposed the Intolerable Acts upon Massachusetts, twelve colonies sent delegates to the First Continental Congress to draft a Petition to the King & organize a boycott of British goods.

Fighting broke out on 19 April 1775: the British garrison at Boston was harassed by Massachusetts militia at Lexington and Concord after destroying colonial Assembly powder stores. In June the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington to create a Continental Army & oversee the capture of Boston. The Patriots sent their Olive Branch Petition to the King & Parliament, both of whom rebuffed it. In response they invaded British Quebec but were repulsed. In July 1776, Congress unanimously passed the Declaration of Independence. Hopes of a quick settlement were supported by American sympathizers within Parliament who opposed Lord North's "coercion policy" in the colonies. However, after the British were driven out of Boston the new British commander-in-chief, General Sir William Howe, launched a counter-offensive & captured New York City. After crossing the Delaware Washington engaged & routed Hessian forces at the Battle of Trenton & the British at the Battle of Princeton. After British General Burgoyne surrendered at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777, Howe's 1777–1778 Philadelphia campaign captured that city. Washington retreated to Valley Forge during the winter of 1777–1778 where Prussian allied General von Steuben drilled the largely untrained Continental Army into an organized fighting unit. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

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