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Lexington and Concord
•British Military tried to capture weapons and were sniped by American guerrilla groups, who moved their supplies weeks in advance Commanding Officers:
Massachusetts Bay- John Parker, James Barrett, John Buttrick, William Heath, Joseph Warren, Isaac Davis
GB: Francis Smith, John Pitcairn, Hugh percy -
Fort Ticonderoga
Patriots: Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen, Green Mountain Boys
GB: William Delaplace •First victory
•They captured a British fort
•got a lot of ammo and equipment -
Bunker Hill
Commanders: United colonies- Israel Putnam,William Prescott,Joseph Warren, John Stark
GB- William Howe
Sir Robert Pigot
James Abercrombie
Henry Clinton
- british victory
-patriots inflicted many casuatiles
-morral bost
- British captured Charlston Pennsylvania -
Trenton/Princeton Campaign
Continental Army: George Washington, Nathaneal Greene
Hessians: Johann Rall -Continental army sneak attacks Hessians
-negligible losses
-turning point in war
-moral booster -
Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
Continental Army: Horatio Gates
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Lincoln
Enoch Poor
Ebenezer Learned
Daniel Morgan GB: John Burgoyne
Simon Fraser
F.A. Riedesel -Americans surrounded enemy
-They surrendered
-Huge turning point in the war -
Yorktown
-End of British land operations
-beginning negotiations to the treaty of Paris Patriots:
George Washington
Marquis De Lafayette
Comte de Rochambeau
Comte de Grasse GB:
Charles Cornwallis Surrendered (POW)
Charles O'Hara (POW)
Thomas Symonds (POW) -
Siege of Charleston
British: Sir Henry Clinton
Mariot Arbuthnot
Charles Cornwallis U.S: Benjamin Lincoln (POW) -Americans took a heavy loss
-Surrended over 5000 american men -
King's Mountain
Patriots:
James Johnston
William Campbell
John Sevier
Frederick Hambright
Joseph McDowell
Benjamin Cleveland
James Williams
Isaac Shelby
Joseph Winston
William Chronicle
GB: Patrick Ferguson
Abraham Depeyster -Decisive victory for Patriots
-received intelligence and we're ready for the loyalist army to come
killed and captured many
