Revolutionary war

James Caruso Revolutionary War Timeline

By James Caruso

  • French sending weapons to Patriots

    early as 1776

  • French signed alliance with Americans

  • British retreated from Boston

  • William Howe and Richard Howe joined forces and set sail into New York

    summer of 1776

  • Battle of New York ended

    late august

  • Graham described withdraw in New York

  • British pushed Washington's army to Delaware

    Late fall
  • Washington's victory in Trenton

    Washington's victory in Trenton

    Christmas night

  • Terms of enlistments due to end

  • General Howe begins campaign to seize america's capital

    spring of 1777

  • Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga

  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    Winter of 1777-1778

  • American troops amazing transformation

  • British shift operations to South

    summer of 1778

  • British savannah victory

    end of 1778

  • Royal governer commands Georgia

    spring of 1779

  • Lafayette joined Washington with French reinforcements

    last years of the war

  • British victory over South and North Carolina

  • General Clinton with Cornwallis sailed south with 8500 men

  • French army of 6000 landed in Newport

  • Establish forts across South Carolina

  • Redcoats surrender at South Carolina

  • Cornwallis attacked Greene

  • Greene wrote letter to Lafayette

  • Robert Morris becomes superintendant of finance

  • Troops finally were paid

  • Cornwallis surrendered

  • British formal surrender

  • Washington and French generals accepted enemies surrender

  • Delegates sign Treaty of Paris

    Delegates sign Treaty of Paris