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Bunker Hill
Victor-the British
British General-Sir William Howe U.S.- Dr. Joseph Warren, Israel Putnam, William Prescott
-It is one of the most important colonial victories in the U.S. War for Independence. Fought during the Siege of Boston
-This battle made both sides realize that this was not going to be a matter decided on by one quick and decisive battle.
-This battle made both sides realize that this was not going to be a matter decided on by one quick and decisive battle. -
Long Island
Victor:U.S
Great Britain- Lord Charles Cornwallis, Sir Henry Clinton, Sir William Howe U.S-George Washington, Israel Putnam, William Alexander
-There were three frigates, the Phoenix, Rose, and Greyhound, and two bomb ketches named Carcass and Thunder, in Gravesend Bay.
-The force started crossing to Denyse Point and they were covered by the guns of the H.M.S. Rainbow.
-The British had has lost 63 killed and 337 wounded and missing while Washington had lost about 970 men killed, wounded. -
Trenton
Victor:U.S.
Great Britain General:Johann Rall U.S.: George Washington
-the abandonment of Fort Lee in the face of a British invasion was on November 20, 1776,
-At six o'clock on Christmas evening, the troops marched toward McKonkey's Ferry, nine miles north of Trenton.
-Washington separated his army into two columns: General Greene a division of about 1,200 men and ten fieldpieces, accompanied by General Washington, down the Pennington Road while General Sullivan's division of about 1,500 men. -
Brandywire
Victor:Great Britain.
British General:Sir William Howe U.S.-George Washington
-By the night of September 10th, the American troops were extended along a six-mile line covering the east side of the Brandywine Creek.
-At 4 A.M. on the morning of September 11, 1777, a long line of redcoats quietly flowed out from Kennett Square.
-At 5:45 A.M., after Howe's division had cleared out, General Knyphausen's division began moving along the Great Nottingham Road. -
Saratoga
Victor:Great Britain British General:General John Burgoyne U.S:Benedict Arnold, Daniel Morgan, Horatio Gates
-An expeditionary force was detached by the Americans, which made a bold, though unsuccessful, attempt to retake Ticonderoga.
-General Lincoln, with 2,000 New England troops, had reached the American camp on the 29th of September.
-The enemy's force immediately in front of his lines was so strong that he dared not weaken the troops who guarded them. -
Monmouth
Victor:Great Britain.
British General-Sir Henry Clinton U.S.-George Washington
-In May of 1778, The British commander, General Clinton in Philadelphia, faced with a war with France decided it was prudent to protect New York City and Florida.
-General Lee advises to await developments-he doesn't want to commit the army against the famous ability of the British regulars.
-In spite of Lee, Washington determines that the British were vulnerable to attack as they were spread out across the state. -
Savanah
Victor:Greqat Britain. British General-Colonel Archibald Campbell U.S.-Robert Howe
-The American commander Brigadier General Robert Howe of North Carolina, with only 700 men, made a feeble attempt to defend the city.
-Henry Clinton, in charge of British troop in America, is ordered to move to the South.
-Campbell gained control of the city at the cost to his forces of seven killed and seventeen wounded. -
Cowpens
Victor:U.S
British General-Banastre Tarleton U.S.-Daniel Morgan
-The Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781) was a decisive victory by American Revolutionary forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
-On October 14, 1780, George Washington chose Nathanael Greene to be commander of the Southern Department of the Continental forces.
-On December 3 Daniel Morgan reported for duty to Greene's headquarters at Charlotte, North Carolina. -
Guilford
Victor:U.S.
British General:Lord Charles Cornwallis U.S.-Nathanael Greene
-On the bright, late winter day of March 15, 1781, the Revolutionary War came to a remote county seat in north central North Carolina.
-The heaviest fighting took place on the third line where General Greene had stationed his Continentals.
-Such was the strange and untoward nature of this war, that victory now, as we have already seen in more than one other instance, was productive of all the consequences of defeat. -
Yorktown
Victor:The Franco-American victory over the British army
Lt. Gen. Lord Cornwallis-British Continental General-Gen.George Washington
-Washington had three grand divisions of American Continentals, commanded by Lafayette, Benjamin Lincoln, and von Steuben, as well as seven French regiments and numbers of artillerists and cavalry.
- Cornwallis previously had abandoned operations in North Carolina after the battle at Guilford Courthouse.
-The battle went on through a three-week siege.
