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The Battle of Bunker Hill
It was mostly located on and around Breed’s Hill during the Siege of Boston. British General Howe had captured Boston and was in an urge to fight. The British eventually held the hill but had taken a huge number of hurt peopl from what was supposed to be an assorted crew of farmers that would run at the sight of the royal army. -
Battle of Quebec
It was when the American troops attacked a force including British recruits and Canadian volunteers. The British and Canadian garrison drove off the American attack and ended the threat to the British control of Canada. The battle was the first big defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came at a high price. General Richard Montgomery was killed, Benedict Arnold was hurt, and Daniel Morgan and more than 400 men were taken prisoner. The British won the battle. -
Battle of Great Bridge
was fought December 9th 1775, in the area of Great Bridge, Virginia, early in the American Revolutionary War. The victory by Continental Army and military forces led to the departure of Governor Lord Dunmore and any remaining vestiges of British power from the Colony of Virginia during the early days of their conflict. -
War of Independence
was an on going political tensions between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies reached a crisis in 1774 when the British placed the province of Massachusetts under martial law after the Patriots protested illegal taxes. While shooting began at Lexington and Concord, the Continental Congress appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief of the newly created Continental Army, which was augmented throughout the war by colonial militia. General Washington was not the greatest battlef -
Battle of Gloucester
Was a skirmish fought early in the American Revolutionary War at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Royal Navy Captain John Linzee, commanding the sloop of war HMS Falcon, spotted two schooners that were returning from the West Indies. After capturing one schooner, Linzee chased the second one into Gloucester Harbor, where it was grounded. The townspeople called out their militia, captured British seamen sent to seize the grounded schooner, and recovered the captured ship as well. -
The Battle of Kemp's Landing
Was a skirmish in the American Revolutionary War. Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby Great Bridge. Dunmore was investigating rumors of Patriot troop arrivals from North Carolina that turned out to be false; he instead moved against the Princess Anne militia, defeat -
The Battle of the Rice Boats
It was a land and an intense battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place in and around the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina The battle pitted the Patriot militia from Georgia and South Carolina against a small fleet of the Royal Navy. In December the British army was captured in Boston. In need of provisions, a Royal Navy was sent to Georgia to purchase ric