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Battle of Lexington and Concord
Th British army won in Lexington and the colonists won in Concord.Pal Revere an William Dawes rode to Lexington, about 70 minutemen were waiting. Paul Revere and William Dawes were detained, but William Dawes escaped. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Early in the Revolutionary War, the British defeated the Americans at this battle. Despite their loss, they gained more confidence. Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fight was taken place at Breed's Hill. -
Battle at Cowpens
At the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina, American troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan routed British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. The Americans thought the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign. -
Battle of Long Island
The British Army successfully moved against the American Continental Army led by George Washington. The battle was part of a British campaign to seize control of New York and thereby isolate New England from the rest of the colonies. -
Battle of Trenton
General George Washington’s army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton Washington defeated Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. A week later he returned to Trenton to lure British forces south, then executed a captured Princeton. The victories reasserted American control of much of New Jersey and greatly improved the morale and unity of the colonial army and militias. -
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Located on Lake Champlain in northeastern New York, Fort Ticonderoga served as a key point of access to both Canada and the Hudson River Valley during the French and Indian War. Benedict Arnold of Massachusetts joined Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont in a dawn attack on the fort, surprising and capturing the sleeping British garrison. -
Battle of Saratoga
They fought for eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777,. He surrendered ten days later, and the American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist’s cause and enter the war as their ally. -
Battle of Monmouth
Charles Cornwallis led several successful early campaigns during the American Revolution, securing British victories at New York, Brandywine and Camden. In 1781, as second in command to Gen. Henry Clinton, he moved his forces to Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown. This American victory and Cornwallis’ surrender of his troops to George Washington was the final major conflict of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.