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Battle of Lexington and Concord
The British were trying to find the Militia's stores of ammunition and arms. Paul Revere and William Dawes warned the militia.79 militia met 1,000 British troops.8 militia were killed. This was the first battle of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
In the Battle of Bunker Hill they started fighting and by the end of the war the British were low on ammunition so they said don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.Then they kept battling until they ran out of ammunition. When they were done fighting they went Home -
Battle of Long Island
In this Battle the British badly defeated the Continental army, The Continental were out numbered.A person named Nathan Hale disguised himself as a Dutch school teacher to spy on the British troops.Later Hale was captured and was hung for a punishment. -
Battle of Trenton
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. -
Battle of Saratoga
Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. On September 19th, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. -
Battle of Monmouth
Washington chose to send 4,000 men as an advance force to strike at the British rear guard as they departed Monmouth Courthouse, in order to delay the British withdrawal until the main American force could give battle. -
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. -
Battle of Cowpens
At the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina on January 17, 1781, during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), American troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) routed British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833). The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign.
