The Boston Tea Party
The tea famously dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773 belonged to the British East India Company. Colonists weren't just protesting taxes—they feared the British would use the company to subjugate America just as it was doing in India.
The Continental Union Flag of 1775 (America's first national flag) is remarkably similar to the British East India Company's flag. Both feature alternating red and white stripes with a Union Jack in the top left corner.
In his famous 1776 pamphlet *Common Sense*, Thomas Paine used the East India Company's harsh extortion in Bengal as a dire warning of what would inevitably happen to America if it did not declare independence.
While Americans fought the British in North America, leaders like Haidar Ali of Mysore fought British forces in India. In solidarity, American privateers spent the war attacking British East India Company cargo ships to disrupt imperial supply lines.
The last battle of the American Revolutionary War wasn't fought in America! In June 1783, long after fighting ceased in the colonies, allied French and British naval forces clashed off the coast of India at Cuddalore.