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Lexington
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary. The wars were fought in Lexington, Massachusetts and the day was windy and dawn. 70 minutemen drawn up in lines on the village green. Someone fired and the British soldiers sent a volley of shots into the departing Militia. -
Concord
The British march on to Concord in which they found an empty arsenal. The march was quickly becoming a slaughter. British soldiers fell by the dozen. Colonists became enemies of Britain and held Boston and its camp where they British stayed under siege. -
Bunker Hill
2400 British soldiers were sent up hill. The colonist lost 450 men, and the British suffered over 1,00 casualties. -
New York
Force of about 32,000 soldiers. Part of the plan to stop the rebellion by isolating New England. -
Trenton
Took place on the morning of December 26, 1776 in Trenton. Hessian army was crushed in Washington's raid across the Delaware. -
Valley Forge
The six-month encampment of General George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778 was a major turning point in the American Revolutionary War. The men were hungry and tired after a string of losing battles that had resulted in the British capture of the patriot capital, Philadelphia, earlier in the fall. -
Philadelphia
30,000 American and British soldiers faced off here in the largest land of battle of the Revolution. Demands on war also affected civilians. -
Marquis De Lafayette
Lafayette served on Washington's staff for six weeks, and, after fighting with distinction at the Battle of the Brandywine, near Philadelphia, on September 11, 1777, he was given command of his own division. He conducted a masterly retreat from Barren Hill on May 28, 1778. -
Saragota
One of the most important events of the war. American troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga. -
Yorktown
American forces trapped the British. The British surrender the Battle of yorktown and ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
The official peace treaty between the United States and Britain that ended the American Revolutionary War. It was signed on September 3, 1783.
