Billy Chrysanthopoulos American Revolution

By billchrys

  • Battle Of Bunker Hill

    Battle Of Bunker Hill
    -First major battlesof the revolutionary war
    -americans Won
    -Continental General: George Washington
    -British General: Thomas Gage
    -This forced britsih to hire mercnearies
    -This convinced patriots to estbalish a more effective military estblishment

  • Battle Of Long Island

    Battle Of Long Island
    -British Won
    -Continental general: George Washington
    -British general: William Howe
    -1000 casualties of american men 1000 imprisoned american men
    -Howe allowed washington and his men to regroup the ameriocan defenses because of his eagerness -Commander John Sullivan captured during battle which helped led the americans to their defeat

  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    -Americans Won
    -Continental General: George Washington
    -British General: William Howe
    - Restored Washington's reputation on this battle
    - This lost fueled the British for another strike
    - Only victory personally led by washington till the end of the revolution

  • Battle of Bradywine

    Battle of Bradywine
    • British Won
    • continental general: George Washington
    • british general: William Howe
    • High amount of dead, prisoned, and injured american men in this battle
    • British took phildelphia
    • Howe failed again to deliver the final blow to washington

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    • Americans won
    • Continental general: Horatio Gates
    • British general: John Burgoyne
    • First ever surrender of an entire bristish army in the american revolution
    • This brought it to the intervention of France
    • Only 150 american soldiers were killed

  • Battle of monmouth

    Battle of monmouth
    • Americans Won
    • Continental general: Nathaniel Greene
    • British general: Henry Clinton
    • Clinton's army fled during the night to New York City
    • Around 350 british troops were accounted dead
    - This gave Washington a slight edge

  • Capture of Savannah

    Capture of Savannah
    • British Won
    • Continental General: Robert Howe
    • British General: Achibald Campbell
    • Only half of Howe's army remained
    • Campbell captured 453 of american men from this battle
    • Savannah remained in the British's control till 1782

  • Battle of Cowpens

    Battle of Cowpens
    • Americans Won
    • Continental General: Daniel Morgan
    • British General: Banastre Tarleton
    • Morgan set his troops between both Pacolet and the Broad River, in order to stop Tarleton's army from escaping
    • Few days before the battle Tarleton' army ran out of food and had less than 5 hours of rest so they barely had energy to fight
    • morgan's perfect strategam was the reason why they won

  • Battle of Guilford Court House

    Battle of Guilford Court House
    • British Won
    • Continental General: Nathaniel Greene
    • British General: Charles Cornwallis
    • 971 american men accounted missing after this battle
    • Greene set up 3 strong defense lines which wasn't easy for the british to break through
    • The british were forced to flee leaving their equipment behind for the americans to take

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    • Americans Won
    • Continental General: George Washington
    • Britsih General: Charles Cornwallis
    • Washington attacked during the moonless as the element of surprise against the british
    • Cornwallis and his men surrendered since it was useless to keep battling
    • Many of Cornwallis' troops were struck with malaria during the battle whcih led to their surrender