Revolutionary War Timeline

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  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    on April 18 , 1775 paul revere, william dawes and samuel
    Prescott rode out to spread word that 700 british troops were headed for concord the darkened countryside rang with church bells shots
  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia
    In may 1775 colonial leaders called the second continental congress in philadelphia to debate at the second continental congress
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    On june 17, 1775 gage sent 2,400 british soldiers up the hill. The midnamed battle of bunker hill would prove to be the deadliest battle of the war
  • New York

    the british sailed into new york harbor in the summer of 1776 with a force of about 32,000 soldiers. Many of them came from the german region of Hesse.
  • Saratoga

    on September 19 marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Trenton

    The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jerse
  • Marquis De Lafayette

    1771 Marquis de Lafayette, known in the United States simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the Siege of Yorktown.
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington. In September 1777, British forces had captured the American capital of Philadelphia.
  • Yorktown

    The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive
  • -Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War