America Revolution Timeline

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Was a deadly riot, British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. The fierce fight confirmed that any reconciliation between England and her American colonies was no longer possible.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government.
  • British capture New York

    British capture New York

    New Yorkers heard the cannon blasts of the Battle of Long Island. Five days later, an expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars, 10 ships of line, 20 frigates, and 170 transports defeated Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invaded Manhattan Island.
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later and boosted the morale of the American troops.
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga

    the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth

    The British, Sir Henry Clinton, the new British commander, retreated from Philadelphia to New York. ... Both the Americans and the British claimed victory at the Battle of Monmouth.
  • British capture of Savannah

    British capture of Savannah

    British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia.
  • British Capture of Charles Town

    British Capture of Charles Town

    Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.

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