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Fort Ticonderoga
Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and William Delaplace. The fort was important for various reasons, some being that there are many cannons and other heavy artillery inside its walls, also it is siruated along Lake Champlain which is home to a strategic route of getting to the thirteen colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
John Parker, James Barett, John Buttrick, William Health, Joseph Warren, Issac Davis, Francis Smith, John Pitcairn, Hugh Percy. The British army was given secret orders to destroy the militia's supplies at Comcord. The Militia was informed to this and moved their supplies before hand. -
Bunker (Breed's) Hill
Israel Putnam, William Prescott, Joseph Warren, John Start, William Howe, Sir Robert Pigot, James Abercrombie, Henry Clinton, Samuel Graves, John Pitcairn. The fort was on a vantage point for the artillery to shoot and destroy British ships in the Boston Harbor. -
Trenton/Princeton (NJ Campaign)
George Washington, Hugh Mercer, Charles Mawhood, Charles Cornwallis. They lured British soldiers south so they could take a night March to Princeton to take it back from the British. -
Saratoga (Bemis Heights, Second Battle)
Horatio Gates, Benedict Arnold, John Burgoyne, Simon Fraiser. Colonel Barry St. Leger led 2,000 troops down the Mowhawk River Valley in a tactical diversion. -
Siege of Charleston
Sir Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis, Benjamin Lincoln. After the failure of the Saratoga Campaign, the British largely abandoned operations in the Middle Colonies and pursued a strategy of peace in the Southern Colonies. -
Kings Mountain
James Johnson, William Campbell, John Siever, Abraham Depeyster, Patrick Ferguson. The battle was for the control of South Carolina, Loyalist Militia. -
Yorktown
George Washington, Charles Cornwallis. Grasse secretly sailed to Chesapeake Bay, where Cornwallis had taken control of the commanding army, to help Washington and the colonists.
