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Battles of Lexington and Concord
General Gage was urged by the British Secratary of State to fully stop the revolution by the Americans. This is when the Boston Patriots sent Paul Rever on his famous ride to warn the soldiers and citizens that the British are coming. -
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Ticonderoga
The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British squad. -
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Bunker (Breed's Hill)
British Army sent troops in across the Charles River to capture the colonists' cannons located on Breed's Hill. They moved the cannons to Bunker Hill because they could reach the harbor and control it. -
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Trenton/Princeton
General George Washington’s army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. -
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Saratoga
Battle in the City of New York between the Continental Army and General Burgoyne's British Army. Burgoyne surrendered, giving hope to the revolution. -
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Siege of Charleston
The Siege of Charleston was a major engagement fought between March 29 to May 12, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy and their withdrawal from Philadelphia, shifted their focus to the American Southern Colonies. -
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King's Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was an engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots. The battle took place on October 7, 1780, 9 miles south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina. -
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Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.