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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War, and began to take place on the night of April 19th, 1775. The battles were fought between British colonists and angry resident militia in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, together with Benedict Arnold, surprised and overtook a small British garrison at the fort, acquiring valuable weapons for the Continental Army. Arnold took command of Ticonderoga until he was relieved in June 1775. -
On June 17, 1775, the British troops defeated the American Continental Army in the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. The battle was one of the bloodiest in the American revolutionary war with about half of the 2,200 Redcoats who entered the battle killed or wounded. The patriots sustained 400 casualties, which was significantly small compared to the British casualties. However, the battle was not actually fought on Bunker Hill but a nearby one-third of a mile south on Breed’s Hill. -
The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.The Battle of Fort Washington was a battle in the American Revolutionary War that resulted in a British victory and the subsequent surrender of the garrison at Fort Washington. -
On the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington led his army against the British forces stationed at Trenton which he occupied four days later. On January 3, he led his army to capture Princeton after luring the British forces south. These two victories were pivotal in boosting the morale of the American troops and reassuring their cause in independence. -
The Battles of Saratoga were fought eighteen days apart, occurring on September 19th and October 7th in 1777. The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Monmouth was fought near Monmouth Court House on June 28, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton. -
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. -
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. -
The Battle of Yorktown took place from the 28th of September until the 19th of October of 1781, waged between Americans and their French allies against the British in Virginia. It was the last great battle of the American revolutionary war. After three weeks of bombardment, day and night, the British eventually surrendered in the field at Yorktown which resulted in the end of the War for independence.