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Lexington concord
- first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
- Strategic American victory
- British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord
- Militia successfully drive British back to Boston
- Start of the American Revolutionary War
- first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Fort Ticonderoga
- Ticonderoga and Crown Point captured by New England militia
- capurted all British troops there
- green mountain boys
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Bunker (breed's) hill
- British capture Charlestown Peninsula
- 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill.
- a lot of British casualties Americans ran out of ammo, had to retreat
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Trenton/Princeton (NJ campaign)
first successes won by Washington in the open field. They put new life into the American cause, and established Washington in the confidence of his troops and the country at large. -
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Saratoga ( bemis heights, the second battle)
Freeman's farm - British victory
Bemis heights- Americans victory
6,000 British solders captured -
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Siege of Charlestown
British victory , six weeks of fighting the Americans surrender losing 3,000 soldiers. -
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Kings Mountain
Patriot victory , taking out all 1,000 British solders either killed or captured. Took place in South Carolina -
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Yorktown
Yorktown, Virginia
- huge patriot and French victory
- End of major land operations in North America
- patriot + French were double their army size 18,000 to 9,000
All British solders killed and or captured