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Battle of Lexington and Concord
Kicked off the the American Revolutionary War, battle took place in Massachusetts. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache the night before. Paul Revere and other men sounded the alarm and militia men bagan mobilizing.Shot heard round the world on lexington green. American militias stop british advance in Concord. American victory. The war hzd begun. -
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Siege of Ft. Ticonderoga
Located on Lake Champlain in northeastern New York, Fort Ticonderoga served as a key point of acess to both Canada and the Hudson River Valley during French and Indian War. On May 10, 1775 Benedict Arnold and his forces surprised and capture the sleeping British garrison. First American Victory , would give Continental Army much needed artillery -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Early in the Revolutionary War. The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the British, and provided the colonials with a confidence boost. -
Battle of Quebec
On December 31,1775, Patriot forces under Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery attempted to capture the British occupied city of Quebec, attack failed, and Montgomery died. First major defeat. -
Battle of Long Island
The British army succesfully moved against the American Continental Army led by George Washington. The battle was part of a British campaign to seize control of New York and thereby isolate New England from the rest of the colonies. Washingtons defeat could have led to the surrender of his entire force, but his ingenuity instead allowed him to escape and continue the fight. -
Battle of Ft.Washington
On this day in 1776, Hessian Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and a force of 3,000 Hessian mercenaries and 5,000 Redcoats lay siege to Fort Washington at the northern end and highest point of Manhattan Island. Patriots were overwhelmed and surrendered. Fort Washington Point lay beneath the site along the Hudson River. -
Battle of Trenton
In the Battle of Trenton December 26,1776, Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. A week later he returned to Trenton to lure British forces south, then executed a daring night march to capture Princeton on January 3. American victory in Trenton New Jersey. -
Battle of Princeton
On the night of January 2, 1777 George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton.That night, he evacuated his position, circled around General Lord Cornwallis' army, and went to attack the British garrison at Princeton. The victories of Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey reasserted American control of much of New Jersey and greatly improved the morale and unity of the colonial army and militias. -
Battle of Brandywine
On the afternoon of this day in 1777, General Sir William Howe and General Charles Cornwallis launch a full-scale British attack on General George Washington and the Patriot outpost at Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the road linking Baltimore and Philadelphia.The one-day battle at Brandywine cost the Americans more than 1,100 men killed or captured while the British lost approximately 600 men killed or injured. -
Battle of Saratoga
Fught eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. British force was heavly weakened , American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist's cause and enter the war as their ally. -
Battle of Charleston
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.South Carolina was a deeply divided state, and the British presence let loose the full violence of a civil war upon the population. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
During the American Revolution, Patriot irregulars under Colonel William Campbell defeat Tories under Major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina.The Patriots charged the hillside multiple times, demonstrating lethal marksmanship against the surrounded Loyalists.Unwilling to surrender to a "band of banditti," Ferguson led a suicidal charge down the mountain and was cut down in a hail of bullets. Patriot victory -
Battle of Cowpens
At the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781, during the Revolutionary WarAmerican troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) routed British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833). The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign. -
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Yorktown latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.American victory and the signing of the Treaty of Paris
