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Bunker Hill
*Major General Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam
* Major General Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam
* 2,400 British troops against 1,500 Americans,.
*The British lost 1,054 men, while the Americans lost, in killed, wounded,and captured, but 441
*The British took over the Bunker and Breed’s Hill positions and fortified them -
Battle of long Island
*George Washington started moving to the south of New York after successfully capturing Boston in March 1776 from the British.
*Washington began moving his troops to New York City on April, 1776.
*Washington decided to split his army into 5 divisions. -
Battle of Trenton
Place: Trenton, New Jersey on the Delaware River
Combatants: Americans against Hessians and British troops
Size of the armies:
2,400 American troops with 18 guns. 1,400 Hessians with 6 light guns. -
Battle of Brandywine
*General George Washington and the army of General Sir William Howe, comprising of British-Hessian army men.
*Most accounts of British reports say that over 200 were killed, 750 were wounded and 400 prisoners were taken.
*American army had no reports.
*The British won -
Battle of Saratoga
*Generals: Major General John Burgoyne commanded the British and German force. Major General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold commanded the American army.
*British and German troops against the Americans. -
The Battle of Monmouth
*Generals: Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, Major General Earl Cornwallis and Major General Knyphausen against General George Washington and Major General Charles Lee.
*The army of British and German troops against American Continental troops and militia.
*The British suffered some 300 casualties and the Americans 350. Up to 100 men are thought to have died of heatstroke during the battle.
*10,000 British troops against 11,000 Americans. -
Attack on Savannah
*American and French force staged an unsuccessful siege against British forces in Savannah
*town captured by the British during the previous year -
The Battle of Cowpens
*Americans against the British and loyalist Americans
*Colonel Daniel Morgan against Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton
*The Americans won.
*The Americans had around 1,000 men and the British around 1,100.
*The British lost 39 officers and 60 soldiers killed. 829 were captured. 12 Americans were killed and 60 wounded. -
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
*British against the Americans
* Major General Lord Cornwallis against Major General Nathaniel Greene
*Around 1,900 British against 4,400 Americans
*The British won a Pyrrhic victory.
*British casualties were 550 dead and wounded. The Foot Guards had lost 11 officers of 19 and 200 soldiers of 450.
The American casualties were 250. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
*Americans and French against the British
*General Washington commanded the Americans, Lieutenant General de Rochambeau commanded the French and Major General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British.
*8,800 Americans, 7,800 French and 6,000 British
*The Americans and French Won the war
*6,000 British surrendered to the Americans and French with 10 stands of German and British colours, 240 pieces of artillery, small arms, ammunition and equipment.
The casualties during the siege had been 500 Brit
