-
Period: to
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First battles of the Revolutionary War. American victory and British pushed back to Boston. -
Period: to
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allan and Benedict Arnold lead Green Mountian Boys and captures Fort Ticonderoga. Weapons at fort later used to break the stand off at the Seige of Boston. -
Period: to
Battle of Bunker Hill
William Prescott and 1,200 colonial troops occupy Bunker Hill. British with more soldiers attack and take the Charlestown Peninsula though they lose more soldiers than they thought they would -
Period: to
Battles of Trenton and Princeton
First battles won by Washington after he crossed the Delaware. Princeton is the clean up of the British after Trenton. Colonial morale re-amped -
Period: to
Battles of Saratoga and Bemis Heights
20,000 U.S. soldiers capture 5,000 British and force a surrender at Saratoga, turning point in the war. News of the surrender officially brought France into the war as an ally. -
Period: to
Siege of Charleston
General Benjamin Lincoln, commanding the Charleston garrison, surrendered his forces to the British, resulting in one of the worst American defeats of the war. -
Period: to
Battle of Kings Mountain
Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson. First all American fight. Patriot morale spiked. Cornwallis was forced to abandon his plan to invade North Carolina and retreated into South Carolina. -
Period: to
Siege of Yorktown
George Washington, French, and Canadian troops defeat Cornwallis and the British. Last major land battle in the Revolutionary War