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Lexington and Concord
Commanding officers/militia: Colonel Smith, Major Pitcairne and Lord Percy commanded the British Troops... Militia were commanded by Barrett, Buttrick, Robinson and many others.
Strategic importance: first shots fired at lexington and battles on the bridge of concord -
Fort Ticonderoga
Commanding officers/militia: General John Burgoyne commanded the British and General Arthur St Clair commanded the American troops.
Strategic importance: The Americans withdrew from Ticonderoga which left it to the British -
Bunker (Breed's) Hill
Commanding officers/militia: Major General Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam
Strategic importance: general warren... British attacked on breeds hill. british drove American out of the charleston peninsula -
Trenton/Princeton (NJ Campaign)
Commanding officers/militia: General George Washington against Major General Lord Cornwallis
Strategic importance: The Americans out smarted and maneuvered the British and escaped Cornwallis’ encircling move -
Saratoga (Bemis Heights, the second battle)
Commanding officers/militia: General John Burgoyne commanded the British and German force General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold commanded the American army.
Strategic importance: killing of Brigadier Simon Fraser, battle continues on the hudson then the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga by Fauvel -
Siege of Charleston
Commanding officers/militia: Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton
Strategic importance: worst defeat in american revolutionary war british captured more than 3,000 patriots -
Yorktown
Commanding officers/militia: General Washington commanded the Americans, Lieutenant General de Rochambeau commanded the French and Major General Lord Cornwallis commanded the British.
Strategic importance: french arrive in yorktown and face the lines of the british took place along the york river...after the time of battle the british surrender -
King's Mountain
Commanding officers/militia: Major Patrick Ferguson commanded the loyalists while the Americans had a couple of similar rankes generals- Colonels Shelby, Campbell, McDowell, Sevier, Williams, Lacey, Cleveland, Hambright and Winston.
Strategic importance: American revolutionary army marched toward north carolina but the Tory army plundered America
