In 1778 Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school, and in October 1779 he began at the Royal High School of Edinburgh.

France returned to North America in 1778 with the establishment of a Franco-American alliance against Great Britain in the American War of Independence.

* Saint Lucia-The island was captured from the French in 1778, but returned to them in 1783.

He was in exile in South Carolina for two years at the home of his brother near Purrysburgh, but returned to Georgia in declining health in 1778, before his death in 1781.

On news of his father's death in the fall of 1778, he resigned his commission and returned to take charge of his family in Northampton.

It was returned to Philadelphia in June 1778, after the British departure.

Although he remained in the state after 1778, in 1779 he returned to his role as a judge, serving in the Court of Common Pleas.

He returned to Newport, Rhode Island in 1778 ; he was arrested after travelling to Boston to visit his sick wife.

He resigned his post as Commander in Chief, North America, in 1778, and returned to England, where he was at times active in the defence of the British Isles.

The regiment was then stationed at Gibraltar, where he remained until he was made captain in the 75th in January 1778, at which point he then returned to Britain.

He was replaced as governor and military commander of Quebec in 1778 by Frederick Haldimand, and returned to England.

Six months later, after the British forces left the region, both men returned to Philadelphia on May 15, 1778.

Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh in 1778, and was soon largely patronized as a portrait painter.

In April 1778, Brant returned to Onoquaga.

On November 7, 1778, John Hart returned to Hopewell from the Assembly in Trenton.

Heyward returned to South Carolina in 1778 to serve as a judge.

The next year they returned to England, where Major Acland died at Pixton Park on 31 October 1778.

During his service, his wife ( Elizabeth Reed ) and two young daughters made their home with his relatives back at Paxtang ( Harrisburg ), and he returned there when discharged at the end of 1778.

He returned home, where he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1778.

After the British evacuated Philadelphia, John and Anne Penn returned to the city in July 1778.

He returned to North Carolina, where he served in the North Carolina Senate during periods from 1778 to 1782, in 1785, and from 1787 to 1788.

After suffering a severe wound while fighting to defend Philadelphia, Talbot returned to active service in the summer of 1778 and fought in Rhode Island.

In 1777 Andrew Allen returned to Philadelphia with General Howe's army, but his stay lasted only as long as their occupation, and he returned with them to New York when the British evacuated the city in 1778.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

After the 1778 alliance with France, the U. S. did not sign another permanent treaty until the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

In 1778 when the British commander in North America, William Howe, requested to be relieved, Amherst was considered as a replacement by the government: however, his insistence that it would require 75, 000 troops to fully defeat the rebellion was not acceptable to the government, and Henry Clinton was instead chosen to take over from Howe in America.

British seafaring Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1778, sailed along the west coast of North America aboard the, mapping the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.

John Smith's Brewery ( John Smith Ltd ) is a brewing company that traces its origins to the founding of the Backhouse & Hartley brewery in 1778 at Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, England.

He subsequently held various legal offices, including marshal of the High Court of Admiralty, 1751-3 ; a judge of Great Sessions for North Wales ( Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire ) from 1757 ; Recorder of Bristol and King's Counsel from 1764 ; and second justice of Chester from 1778.

He first saw action in 1778 during the American War of Independence as a lieutenant in the 82nd Regiment of Foot ( 1778 ), which was raised in Lanarkshire for service in North America by 8th Duke of Hamilton.

First arriving in Boston in May 1775, from 1778 to 1782 he was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America.

He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and from 1785 to 1795 .< ref >

Following the British defeat at Saratoga in 1777 and French entry into the American Revolutionary War in early 1778, the British decided to renew a " southern strategy " to win back their rebellious North American colonies.

In May 1778, the British commander-in-chief in North America, Sir Henry Clinton, was ordered to evacuate Philadelphia and concentrate his troops at the main British base in New York City as France had entered the war on the side of the Americans.

In 1777 and 1778, he was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons and served as Speaker of the House.

In November 1777, political rivals in the North Carolina legislature removed Blount as paymaster, though he was restored to the office in April 1778.

In 1778 Thurlow was admitted to the Privy Council, raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow, of Ashfield in the County of Suffolk, and appointed Lord Chancellor by Lord North.

Having succeeded his father as second Earl Bathurst in September 1775, he resigned his office somewhat unwillingly in July 1778 to enable Lord Thurlow to join the cabinet of Lord North.

* North Carolina General Assembly of 1778

His son General Sir Henry Clinton was Commander-in-Chief of the British in North America from 1778 to 1782.

North Carolina organized some of the territory Washington District into counties between 1777 and 1778, but continued to neglect the demands of frontier settlers for basic services and defense against American Indians.

Anthony Van Egmond, born Antonij Jacobi Willem Gijben ( 10 March 1778 – 5 January 1838 ) before coming to North America, was purportedly a Dutch Napoleonic War veteran.