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Lexington and Concord
Location: Massachusetts The british went to Lexigton to get 2 leaders.
The colonists were waiting for them.
The first shot was fired in Lexigton, no one knows from witch side.
The British won
The British moved on to Concord to get the abut munition.
The British arrived there were already Colonists there they got into a battle.
The Colonists won.
Casualties
British Force: 1500
Killed: 73
Wounded: 174
Captured: 53
Colonial Force: 3800
Killed: 49
Wounded: 39
Captured: 0 -
Fort Ticonderoga
Location: Lake Champlain
British Force: 78
Killed: 0
Wounded: 0
Captured: 0
American Force: 168
Killed: 0
Wounded: 0
Captured: 1 The Colonists where in search for weapons and before as the day broke they attack Fort Ticonderoga.
The British surrendered and the colonists where able to get more or less 100 canons.
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Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Location: Boston British Force: 3000
Killed: 226
Wounded: 828
Captured: 0
Colonists Force: 2400
Killed: 115
Wounded: 305
Captured: 30 The first actual bloody battle
The colonists fortified the wrong for during the night.
The british started firing aaisnt the fort
Around 3PM they started foing up and the colonists where told to only shot if they were close because they had limited munitions.
The conists did but they ended up losing the fort anyways.
British won. -
Invasion of Quebec
Location:Maine/Canada English Force: 1800
Killed: 5
Wounded: 14
Captured: 0
Colonists Force: 1200
Killed: 48
Wounded: 34
Captured: 431 Colonists attempt to capture the city of quebec.
The battle didn't start well and by the start already 400 colonials had been captured. The main reason for this failure was the bad timing and the weather.
This was the first really colonial defeat.
British won -
Dorchester Heights
Location: Boston The british were forced to evacuate New England Colonial won -
Long Island
Location: New York British Force: 20000
Killed: 64
Wounded: 293
Captured: 31
Colonial Force: 10000
Killed: 300
Wounded: 800
Captured: 1000 Both sides noticed the importance of New York.
Many british boats where cominng and the Colonial troops where positioning and tring to take them out.
The British manage to have about 50000 man and 40 canons.
British won -
Trenton
Location: Trenton British Force: 1520
Killed: 22
Wounded: 86
Captured: 906
Colonial Force: 2400
Killed: 2
Wounded: 5
Captured: 0 Trops where crossing the Delawere river and feel a need for clothing and a sense of defeat that turned into sickeness and a lot of casualties made. Not really a battle but Colonial won -
Princeton
Location: Princeton British Force: 1200
Killed: 100
Wounded: 70
Captured: 280
Colonial Force: 4500
Killed: 25
Wounded: 40
Captured: 0 The Colonial trops crossed the river even in the bad weaher and the Hessians because they weren't expecting them and then he retrited and waited for the Curnewallises.
Colonial won -
Brandywine Creek
Location: Pennsylvania British Force: 15500
Killed: 89
Wounded: 488
Captured: 6
Colonial Force: 14600
Killed: 300
Wounded: 600
Captured: 400 After being defeated the hope of the soldiers was very down. And this battle even tought it had no land significance was estremilly important to give new found hope for the colonists Colonial won -
Saratoga
Location: _New York British Force: 7200
Killed: 140
Wounded: 370
Captured: 390
Colonial Force: 9000
Killed: 60
Wounded: 260
Captured: 0 The British had a lot of wins and were really confident. They took the land way isntead of the road by water with made the journey longer. In the given time the Colonials had had time to preper themselfs agaisnt the British. Colonial won -
Germantown
Location: Pennsylvania British Force: 9000
Killed: 71
Wounded: 444
Captured: 0
Colonial Force: 11000
Killed: 152
Wounded: 521
Captured: 438 After many loses in Philadelphia. The colonial plan was to try to surptice the British. -
Monmouth
Location: New Jersey British Force: 14500
Killed: 289
Wounded: 641
Captured: 60
Colonial Force: 11000
Killed: 400
Wounded: 40
Captured: 22 The British were vunerable caring the troops moving from place to place the american would slow down there job everyway thatc they could. George washington believed that the british were vunerable and after a klot of convincing the Colonial trops attacked the British.
It was a tie, because Colonial got the land but British manage to move to were they want -
Savannah
Location: Georgia British Force: 3100
Killed: 7
Wounded: 17
Captured: 0
Colonial Force: 850
Killed: 83
Wounded: 11
Captured: 453 Even with not a lot of man the colonists decided to defend the city agaisnt the british which ended with the lost of 550 man and all the weaponds -
Vincennes
Location: Western Territories The colonists captured English forts which helped with negotiation after the war -
Charleston
Location: South Carolina British Force: 13500
Killed: 76
Wounded: 182
Captured: 0
Colonists Force: 5466
Killed: 92
Wounded: 148
Captured: 4650 The British attenpeted to go South because there was more dispution in between being loyal to the king or not
This was the biggest colonial lost
British trops gained control over the south British won -
King’s Mountain
Location: South Carolina British Force: 1200
Killed: 290
Wounded: 163
Captured: 668
Colonist Force: 900
Killed: 29
Wounded: 58
Captured: 0 The battle in between carolinas made the British retreat againt to South Carolina.
This had been previewed with a seris of small battle
The main battle was concedered to be bloody Colonial won -
Yorktown
Location: Virginia British Force: 8980
Killed: 309
Wounded: 326
Captured: 8007
English Force: 20600
Killed: 72
Wounded: 180
Captured: 0 This was the last major battle in the war.
The colonial army had manage to get the whole north and with french ships on the sea and unterally overnunmbered the British gave up after some fight. Colonial won