Road to Independence

By JoshB

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Was to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops - 700 of them - were marching to Concord to arrest them.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Washington's Crossing

    During the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

  • Valley Forge

    Functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army's main body,

  • 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 victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops