Battles of American Revolution Timeline

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  • Battle of Trenton

    The Battle of Trenton was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Trenton took place on Thursday, December 26, 1776. The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Trenton was located in Trenton, New Jersey. The Battle of Trenton ended in victory for the American colonists.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775. The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Bunker Hill was located in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    First Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord. In April 1775, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead.

  • Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

    On the morning of May 10, 1775, fewer than a hundred of these militiamen, under the joint command of their leader, Ethan Allen, and Benedict Arnold of Massachusetts, crossed Lake Champlain at dawn, surprising and capturing the still-sleeping British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battles of Saratoga, (19 September–17 October 1777), in the American Revolution, closely related engagements in the fall of 1777 that are often called the turning point of the war in favour of the Americans. The failure of the American invasion of Canada in 1775-76 had left a large surplus of British troops along the St. Lawrence River. In 1777 these troops were to move south and join forces with General Sir William Howe’s troops along the Hudson River.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington