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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was on April 19, 1775, in Boston, Massachusetts.The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnumbered and fell back. Generals: Colonel Smith, Major Pitcairne and Lord Percy commanded the British Troops. Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to warn the villages on the route to Concord and the Congress. Militia were commanded by Barrett, Buttrick, Robinson and many others. -
Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 16, 1775. It took place on and around Breeds hill.The leeders involved British: Thomas Gage, William HoweAmerican: Artemis Ward, Colonel William Prescott.The works on Breed's Hill did not go unnoticed by the British. General Clinton, out on reconnaissance that night, was aware of them, and tried to convince Gage and Howe that they needed to prepare to attack the position at daylight.The British had taken the ground but at a great loss. -
Trenton and Princeton
On the night of December 25-26, 1776-77 George Washington, Commander in cheif fo the Continental Army. Led 2,400 men across the Delawar River.They seized the town of Trenton on the morning of the 26 killing or wounding over a hundred hessians and capturing 900 more after a 9 mile march.Soon after capturing the town George Washington led the army across the Delawar river into Pennyslvania. -
Winter at Valley Forge
In the fall of 1777, General George Washington's Continental Army moved south from New Jersey to defend the capital of Philadelphia from the advancing forces of General William Howe. The battle took place in Pennsylvania.The war would last for another five years, but for Washington, his men, and the nation to which they sought to give birth, a decisive victory had been won -- a victory not of weapons but of will. -
Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war.The first battle, on September 19, began when Burgoyne moved some of his troops in an attempt to flank the entrenched American position on Bemis Heights. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The of York Town took place from 28th September to 19th October 1781
Generals: General Washington commanded the Americans, Lieutenant General de Rochambeau commanded the French and Major General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British.Both sides were armed with muskets and guns. The back country riflemen carried long, small calibre rifles, weapons of considerably greater accuracy than the ordinary musket and which their owners used with proficiency. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties, see Peace of Paris.
