Major Battles of the American Revolution

By Esther McAvoy

  • treaty of Paris 1763

    treaty of Paris 1763
    Location: Paris, Kingdom of France
    Important persons:
    John Russell, César Gabriel de Choiseul, and Jerónimo Grimaldi
    What groups of people were involved:
    Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of France, and Spanish Empire
    Why this event or battle was significant: It represents Britain's recognition of American Independence

  • Boston Massace

    Boston Massace
    location: Boston, Massachusetts
    important persons: Crispus Attucks, Tomas Preston, several England soldiers, American people.
    What groups of people were involved: United Colonies and Great Britain
    Who won: United Colonies
    Why this event or battle was significant: This event provoked outrage and eventually led to the War of Independence.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    In Boston, Massachusetts
    
Sons of Liberty, Samuel Adams
    
Sons of Liberty, Great Britain

    United States won
    Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, or Intolerable Acts, which among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce. Colonists up and down the Thirteen Colonies in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    Location: Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Important persons: Peyton Randolph, Henry Middleton, Charles Thomson, Joseph Galloway, John Dickson, John Jay, and Edward Rutledge. Major people: Representatives of 12 colonies from 13 colonies Why Significant:
    1st: a compact among the Colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774.
    2nd: provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    Location:  Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington , and Cambridge.
    Important person involved: Paul Revere, Francis Smith
    Group of people involved: Militia
    Winners: militia

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress
    Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Important persons: Peyton Randolph, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Thomson, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Henry Middleton. Major people: representatives of 13 colonies. Why significant: effectively reconvening the First Continental Congress.
    Delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies were present when the Second Continental Congress convened.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Location:Bunker Hill in Charlestown,Massachusetts
    Important Persons:William Prescott,Joseph Warren,Andrew McClary,William Howe
    Important people:British troops&militia.
    Winner:British men
    Influence:Britain:adapt more cautious planning&maneuver execution in future engagement;arguably helped rather than hindered American forces.
    Americans: new approach to battle gave Americans greater opportunity to retreat
    Colonists retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill,leaving British in control of Peninsula

  • Trenton

    Trenton
    in Trenton, New Jersey
    George Washington
    Deutschland and Great Britain (Hessian soldiers), United States

    Continental Army won
    The colonial effort was galvanized, and the Americans overturned the psychological dominance achieved by the British Government troops in the previous months. Howe was stunned that the Patriots so easily surprised and overwhelmed the Hessian garrison.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    Important Persons: John Burgoyne, Henry Clinton
    Location: Saratoga, New York
    It was a great turning point of the war because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element needed for victory
    and led France to support them and it encouraged the enthusiasm of American military.

  • Treaty of Alliance

    Treaty of Alliance
    location: in Paris 

    person: Benjamin Franklin, 

    groups: France and the United States of America, Great Britain

    won: Americans
    it promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces, as the result signing the previously concluded Treaty of Amity and Commerce.

  • Battle of Guilford and Court House

    Battle of Guilford and Court House
    Location: present day Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Important persons: Nathanael Greene and Lord Cornwallis
What groups of people were involved: United Colonies and Great Britain 
Who won: Great Britain 
    The battle was the largest and most hotly contested action in the American Revolution’s southern action, and led to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    Location: Yorktown, Virginia
    Important Persons: George Washington,  Comte de Rochambeau, Charles Cornwallis.
    Groups involved: Americans, Frenches, British military
    Winner: Americans and Frenches
     The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American theater

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Location: Hotel d'York, Paris. Important persons: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, John Adams, David Hartley, and Richard Oswald. Important people: French people, British people, American people. Americans won. Why significant: It is a symbol of the end of American revolution.