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Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America. The commander was Gage there was no commander of the rebels at this time. -
Fort Ticonderoga
British led by William Delaplace America led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold. The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga was when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were later transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the Siege of Boston. -
Bunker Hill
By daybreak of June 17, the British became aware of the presence of colonial forces on the Peninsula and mounted an attack against them that day. Two assaults on the colonial positions were repulsed with significant British casualties; the third and final attack carried the redoubt after the defenders ran out of ammunition. The colonists retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, leaving the British in control of the Peninsula.British they were led by William Howe. Americans were led by William P. -
Trenton/Princeton (NJ Campaign)
General George Washington’s army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776, over the course of the next 10 days, won 2 crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton December 26, Washington defeated a Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. A week later he returned to Trenton to lure British forces south, then killed a daring night march to capture Princeton on Jan 3. The victories put American control of much of New Jersey and greatly helped the Unity of the militias. -
Saratoga (Bemis Heights, the second battle)
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. British Genand Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York.They took place eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles south of Saratoga, New York. They both failed. Trapped by superior American forces, and with no relief in sight, Burgoyne retreated to Saratoga and surrendered his entire army there on October 17. -
Siege 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. With the victory, the British captured more than 3,000 Patriots and a great quantity of munitions and equipment, losing only 250 killed and wounded in the process. -
King's Mountain
B-Ferguson vs A-William Campbell
When the Loyalists made bayonet counterattacks, the Americans withdrew in the rugged terrain, then returned to the attack. Gradually the ring closed around Ferguson’s Loyalists until they were squeezed into a small area at the northern end of the ridge. Ferguson was shot dead off his horse as he tried to break out and a senior Loyalist officer raised a surrender flag.
The American victory devastated Loyalist support in the south and stalled Cornwallis. -
Yorktown
George Washington vs Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army against loyalist and the British. 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, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, made the British gov't to negotiate an end to the conflict.