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Battle of Lexington and Concord
At the battle there were 70 minutemen waiting for the British. The British mostly won this battle. -
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
The Connecticut militia had a force of 400 men to seize Fort Ticonderoga. Fort Ticonderoga surrender on May 10, 1775. -
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
The British charged the hill. A Patriot said "Don't fire until you see the whites of there eyes." The British won this battle but they knew that defeating the colonist would not be easy or quick. -
Battle of Long Island
The reason for this battle was that the British wanted to seize control over New York. Unfortunately the colonial army did not win and were close to surrendering. -
Battle of Trenton
Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
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. American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist’s cause and enter the war as their ally. -
Battle of Monmouth
The Battle of Monmouth was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. -
Battle at Cowpens
More than 800 British troops were killed, wounded or captured. -
Battle of Yorktown
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.
