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Outbreak of the Revolutionary War
The night before this war started, a Boston church had two lanterns on which ment that the British were coming to search for weapons in Concord by crossing the river to Charlestown. Once they knew which way they were coming 3 en including Paul Revere went on to warn people alond the way. -
Confronting the Redcoats
The next day after the warning of Paul Revere and the other two men in Lexington, Massachusetts, 70 armed citizens known as minutemen, confronted the redcoats as they crossed to Concord. When it was over 8 men lay dead. The redcoats continued to Concord but in an old bridge there was more fighting and the redcoats went back to Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
After about a month of the outbreak of the war the colonies formed The Seond Continental Congress which would serve as a emergency goverment during the war in the statehouse in Phiadelphia, Pennsilvanya. While doing this, the war spread as American fighters captured Ft. Ticonderoga in New York and also militias took positions aroud the hills of boston -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle was the second blodiest battle of the Revolutionary war. It started when Minutemen made a a fort on top of a hill overlooking Boston's Harbor. On the morning the British began exploting the fort from ships and from land, in second Charlestown was in flames, the battle continued killin a lot of people until the militiamen ran out of gun powder at the end British won. -
Washington Takes Command
After the defeat of the Bunker Hill battle, General George Washigton took command of the militias around Boston. His purpose was to drive the redcoats from the city if Britain refused to accept America's offer of peace. -
The Declaration of Independence
After Thomas Jefferson spended all of the summer writing drafts of the Declaration of Independence on the fourth of July Jefferson and him men presented the final draft to the Congress. They wrote that all men were born with a certain god-given rights and are reated equal and described all the ways britain had taken away their rights. -
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War in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Many Americans were just earning that independence just had been declared and war broke out in New York and spred to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It began when British and hired German soldiers called Hessians assembled to attack New York City, after a lot of fighting the brittish took forces of the city and chased washington's army out of the city across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. -
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Encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylania
After the was in New york washington and his army began setting up an encampment in Pennsylvania for the winter, soldiers builded rows of log cabns and in a short time this encampment became the second largest in the United States with a population of over twelve thousand men. Although this cabims provided shelter of snow and food Washington;s men still sufferd and by spring two thousand soldiers had died. -
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Campaign in the Southern States
In 1778 the British undertook a major military campaign in the southern state where a lot of people were agains the independene, so British abandoned Philadelphia and soon warfare ended in the North. In december 1778 the king's force seized Savannah, Georgia and soon took control of the whole state. In 1779 and 1780 were very bad for the united states because they suffered a string of bitter defeats in the south, eventually the americans began to win again. -
Last battle of Yorktown
The British setted up an encampent positioned their weapons and builded walls and trenches while they waited for more supplies and troops to arrive in ships from New York. While this was going on Washington's army and five thousand French troops marched south to Virginia. When they got to Yorktown ve discovered that the French fleet has battled the ships coming to help the British. They battled until the shooting stopped and they surrendered.
