@jasmine_tarkheena I’ve always been fascinated by the American Revolution era, not necessarily just the war itself, but the cultural shifts happening in the colonies at the time. (Quote 1)

Wow! What a great range of ancestry and interests you refer to in your reply.    Yes, like the Ottoman Empire which had been growing in strength, especially in the Balkans to the north of Greece, but which, finally & decisively, took over from the Byzantine Empire, at the fall of Constantinople on 29th May, 1453, the American Revolution has had a world-wide impact.

Did you know, for instance, that on 5th March of 1770, when the Boston Massacre took place, Captain James Cook likely left New Zealand, sighting the south-east coast of Australia a few weeks later?  On 29th April, 1770, he discovered and named Botany Bay, where he met the Gweagal people, then he carefully explored and mapped the coast northward, and finally, on Possession Island in Torres Strait, took possession of the whole eastern coast, naming it New South Wales, to distinguish it from the rest of New Holland, named so, by Abel Tasman, a Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie Captain in 1644, especially when he needed to send his journals & logs back to London, from Batavia, the ongoing capital of the Dutch East Indies, before he could manage to arrive in Great Britain, himself. 

There are some questions about the American Revolution I'd like to find out about. Such as 1. When exactly did the American Revolution start, if it wasn't the incident I've mentioned here? 2. When was the famous Boston Tea Party, for example? 3. We've seen the great monument outside of the Greenwich Observatory in London, dedicated to the memory of General Wolfe, whom I believe fought someone called Montcalm on the Field of Abraham - when I only have a very sketchy idea of the travails of North America, did this battle have any direct impact on the subsequent American Revolution?

4. Sydney was founded on 26/01/1788 on the shores of Port Jackson but on the same day, two French ships arrived in Botany Bay, just as the British First Fleet was vacating that site. I understand from the tourist museum at La Pérouse, in Sydney, that La Pérouse, the French commander of those two ships, had played some role in North American hostilities, at Louisburg, & at the Battle of Quiberon, & wonder exactly what they were? 5. As a matter of interest, I'd also like to know about what part the French played in the American Revolution, and who was De La Fayette?