Road to Independence

By 24jtibbitts

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere was racing to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops - 700 of them - were marching to Concord to arrest them.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The first military confrontations/engagements of the revolutionary war.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    When the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts

  • The Declaration of Independence

    It was the official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule by writing and sending this document to Great Britain

  • Washington's Crossing of the Delaware

    It was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces

  • Battle of Saratoga

    The turning point of the Revolutionary War. When British soldiers and Hessians surrendered to the Americans

  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge was where the American Continental Army made camp during the winter of 1777-1778. It was here that the American forces became a true fighting unit.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    The battle of Yorktown was the where the colonists and the british fought and the British surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown which ended the American Revolutionary War.