Revolu

American Revolutionary War Book school project

By Stansfield

  • French and Indian war ends

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    Intolerable Acts

    British laws that where hard on the colonists.
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    Book of war American Revolution

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre results in the death of 5 people.

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Patriots dress up as Native Americans board a British merchent ship and thow all the tea into the Boston harbor.

  • The first Continental Congress resolves

  • Battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia

  • Patrick Henry's speech

  • Paul Revere and William Dawes

  • Minutemen fight at Lexingto and Concord

  • Washington Commander in Chief

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Washington assumes command of the Continental Army

  • Gen. Montgomery occupy Montreal

  • Patriots capture Great Canebrake, SC

    Col. Thomson with 1,500 rangers and militia capture Loyalists at Great Canebrake, SC.

  • American forces fail to seize Quebec

    American forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold fail to seize Quebec

  • Common Sense published

  • Continental fleet captures New Providence Island in the Bahamas

  • The Virginia Declaration of Rights

  • Continental fleet defeat British navy at Fort Moultrie, SC

  • First Virginia Constition

  • Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

    Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence

  • The Declaration of Independence is published and read publicly

  • Declaration of Independence is read publicly

  • Gen. Washington defeated in Battle of Long Island

  • British occupy New York City

  • Hessians capture Fort Washington, NY

    Hessians were German mercenaries.

  • Lord Cornwallis captures Fort Lee

  • Washington crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton

    Washington crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton

  • Washington victorious at Princeton

  • Gen. St. Clair surrenders Fort Ticonderoga to British

  • Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia

  • Brandywine, Pennsylvania battle won by British

  • Paoli Massacre, PA

  • British occupy Philadelphia

  • American defeat at Germantown

  • British Gen. Burgyne surrender to American Gen. Gates at Saratoga, NY

  • Hessian's attack on Fort Mercer, NJ repulsed

  • British capture of Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania

  • Washington sets up winter HQ in Valley Forge

  • United States sign the French Alliance with France

  • Washington leaves Valley Forge

  • British occupation of Savannah, Georga begins

  • Spain declares war on Great Britain

  • Fairfield, CT burned by British

  • John Paul Jones captures British Serapis

    John Paul Jones says "I have not begin to fight" right before his ship sinks and captures Serapis a British Frigate

  • British capture Charleston, SC worst defeat for Americans

  • Benedict Arnold's plans to cede West Point to the British

  • Articles of Confederation adopted

  • Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA

    Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA

  • America and Britain sign Treaty of Paris

  • U.S. Constitution signed