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Lexington and Concord
The British troops are sent to take colonial weapons they ran into a untrained and angry army. This army defeats 700 British soldiers. -
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Fort Ticonderoga
The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775. Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. -
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Bunker hill Battle
On June 17, 1775, the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Even though Americans loss the inexperienced forces killed lots of casualties. Against the British and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
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Trenton/ Princeton (NJ Campaign)
General George Washington led the rest of his army across Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 and routed a Hessian garrison at Trenton. The victories at the Battles of Second Trenton and Princeton secured Washington's place as one of the greatest generals history. -
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Saratoga (bemis heights battle)
On October 7, Burgoyne’s second attack met with American soldiers led by Major General Benedict Arnold it was in the wooded area of Bemis Heights south of Saratoga. Known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, or the Second Battle of Saratoga, this American victory proved to be a major turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
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Siege of charleston
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans had suffered their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780 with the surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston South Carolina. -
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Kings mountain
Major Ferguson’s Tory force made up mostly of American Loyalists from South Carolina was the western wing of General Lord Cornwallis’ North Carolina invasion force. One thousand American frontiersmen under Colonel Campbell of Virginia gathered in the backcountry to resist Ferguson’s advance.targetted by the Patriots unwilling to surrender. -
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York town battle
Washington realized that it was time to act. He ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown by land while the French naval fleet blocked the British escape by sea. By September 28, Washington had Cornwallis and Yorktown with the combined forces of Continental and French troops. After cannon and artillery Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17 1781 ending the War for Independence.