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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war by having the British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. British blundered bloody when they launched a frontal attack with 3,000 men. -
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War where General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing -
The Battle of Saratoga
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. The success at Saratoga gave France the confidence in the American cause to enter the war as an American ally. Later American successes owed a great deal to French aid in the form of financial and military assistance. -
The Battle of Yorktown
Joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
