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Night before the Revolution
The night before the breakout of the Revolutionary War, the steeple of a Boston chrurch glowed with the light of two lanterns. The lights were a signal to the patriots that British troops, known as "redcoats", were coming to search for weapons in Concord by secretly crossing the river to Charles Town. -
Revolutionary War Begins
The next morning in Lexington, Massachusetts seventy armed citizens, known as Minutemen, confronted the redcoats as they marched toward Concord -
Second Continental Congress
A few weeks after the outbreak of war, represntatives from the thirteen colonies formed the Second Continental Congress that would serve as an emergency government throughout the war. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was the second, and the bloodiest, battle of the Revolutionary War. Minutemen built a crde dirt fort on top of a hill in Charles Town overloking Boston's harbor. In the morning, British forces began to fire at the colonists until they ran out of ammunition. -
Washington takes command
A month after the Anerican defeat at Bunker Hill, General Washington took command of the miitias around Boston. His plan was to drive the recoats from the city if Britian refused to accept America's offer of peace. We Washington learned the king had declared war on the colonies, he took action. -
Capture of Quebec
American troops invaded British Canada but were defeated by British froces when attempting to capture Quebec. My March 1776, the cannons were pointing towards the redcoats, and realizing that it was hopless, the British dumped their own cannons into the harbor and sailed to Canada. Giving America control of the city. -
Decleration of Independence
The United States of America was born within the walls of the State House of the Colony of Pennsylvania, on the fourt of July in 1776. The Decleration of Independence was presented to congress on this day, signed by 56 representivies. -
The Crossing
On Christmas night in 1776, Washington and hus men went on the offensive. They crossed the icy Delware River and slipped back in to New Jersey. With the element of surprise on their side, American forces went on to win important battles at Trenton and nearby Princeton. -
The Campaign in the Southern States
In 1778, the summer after Valley Forge, the British under took a major military campaign in the southern states where a lot of people were against independence. So the British abandoned Philadelphia and soon warfare ended in the North. Late in December of 1778, the king's forceseized Savannah, Georgiaand soon took control of the whole state. -
WAR OVER!
On this day, all the British forces surrendered and the shooting stopped. The battelfeild at Yorktown wittnessed the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Although the war didn't officially end until 1783 when a peace treaty was approved when Britian formally recognized the independence of the United States of America.
