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Battles of Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The Americans won the battle -
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Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga (NY)
When the British controlled the fort, it was attacked on May 10, 1775, in the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga by the Green Mountain, Boys and other state militia under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, who captured it in the surprise attack. The Americans Won. -
Battle of Bunker hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of the Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Although commonly referred to as the Battle of the Bunker Hill, most of the fighting happened near Breed's Hill. -
Battle of Long Island
The British army successfully moved against the American Continental Army led by George Washington. The battle was part of a British campaign to seize control of New York and thereby isolate New England from the rest of the colonies. Washington's defeat could have led to the surrender of his entire force, but his ingenuity instead allowed him to escape and continue the fight. The British won. -
Battle of Brandywine Creek
On September 11, 1777, General Sir William Howe and General Charles Cornwall launch a full-scale British attack on General George Washington and the Patriot outpost at Brandywine, on the road linking Baltimore and Philadelphia. The British Won -
Battle of Saratoga (NY)
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September on October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battle, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Charleston
Siege of Charleston, (1780) during the American Revolution, British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced the surrender of Charleston, SC, the principal port city of the Southern American colonies. The British Won. -
Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between US forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. The Americans Won -
Yorktown / Surrender
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwalls surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up and chance of wining the Revolutionary War. Hours after the surrender, the generals defeated troops marched out of Yorktown to the tune "The World Turned Upside Down."The British surrendered.
