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American Revolution

  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the leading military engagements in the American Revolution war.
  • Fort Ticonderoga Gets Captured

    Fort Ticonderoga Gets Captured

    The capture of Fort Ticonderoga was lead by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold
  • Washington Gets Appointed

    Washington Gets Appointed

    George Washington was appointed to be general and to the commander-in-chief of the New Continental Army/
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought and it happened during the Siege of Boston.
  • France Gives Support to the Colonists

    France Gives Support to the Colonists

    American colonists got the support from France by King Louis XVI.
  • The Independence

    The Independence

    After the Declaration of Independence was signed Thomas Jefferson would later on go to show the other colonists that they were now independent from the British rule.
  • Declaration of Independence Signing

    Declaration of Independence Signing

    U.S. congress members would sign the Declaration of Independence.
  • Financial and Military aid

    Financial and Military aid

    The congress appointed Jefferson, Franklin and Silas Deane to go an negotiate some European treaties.
  • Battle of White Plains

    Battle of White Plains

    Americans got driven back and were able to draw off from the White Plains and marched to New Jersey while the British were retreating and returning back to Manhattan.
  • Battle at Ridgefield

    Battle at Ridgefield

    General Benedict Arnold defeated the British at Ridgefield, Connecticut
  • The 2nd Quartering Act

    The 2nd Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act was for the government to house soldiers in other buildings.
  • France joins the war

    France joins the war

    France would sign a treaty of alliance with the U.S.
  • Iroquois Indians burn Cobleskill, New York

    Iroquois Indians burn Cobleskill, New York

    Combined Forces of 350 men ambushed a unit that would be Continentals near Cobleskill, New York.
  • Fort Moultrie Gets Captured By The British

    Fort Moultrie Gets Captured By The British

    Fort Moultrie getting captured by the British was the biggest lost of troops to the revolutionary army.
  • Battle of Combahee River

    Battle of Combahee River

    Battle of Combahee River was to be marked as one of the last fighting's between the American Forces and the British
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown

    The Siege of Yorktown begins
  • Peace Treaty

    Peace Treaty

    The peace treaty was signed in Paris recognizing Americans independence from the British rule and British withdrawing from America
  • The Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris was by making the American Revolutionary War officially end.
  • The United States of America

    The United States of America

    The United States of America was recognized by Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Russia as an official independence