American Revolution Timeline

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was when a group of civilians was harming a group of British soldiers and the group miss heard and order and fired upon the croud.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston where they dumped all the tea crates that where on ships into the ocean.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles where fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • British capture New York

    British capture New York

    New Yorkers heard the cannon blasts of the Battle of Long Island. Five days later, an expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars, 10 ships of line, 20 frigates, and 170 transports defeated Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invaded Manhattan Island.
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    The surprise victory at Trenton was important to the American because for the first time, Washington's forces had defeated a regular army in the field which increased the spirits of the colonist.
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    The Battles of Saratoga

    The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the war.
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    Valley Forge

    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington
  • Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth

    The Battle of Monmouth was fought near Monmouth Court House during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton
  • British capture of Savannah

    British capture of Savannah

    British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia.
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    British Capture of Charles Town

    The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory
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    Battle of Yorktown

    The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies) at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops.

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