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Battle at Lexington
700 British troops arrived at Concord with 70 minutemen lined up and ready for battle. Shots were fired and 8 minutemen were killed, ten were wounded while only one British soldier was injured. -
Battle at Concord
After the small battle at Lexington, the British troops were headed to Boston when 3,000 to 4,000 men gathered together and and fired on the British soldiers. Many soldiers were hit. -
Battle at Bunker Hill
The British general wanted the British soldiers to attack the colonies. He sent 2,400 British soldier up the hill. By the time the battle was over 450 colonists were dead and over 1,000 British soldiers were either dead or injured. -
New York
To the stop the rebellion of New England's isolation, The British planned to strike New York City. The British arrived to New York with about 32,000 soldiers. The Continental Army tried to defend New York but quickly retired and the British were able to push the colonists into Pennsylvania. -
Battle at Trenton
Washington defeated the German soldiers the British hired to attack the continental army. Washington returned to Trenton, New Jersey, to lure the British south to capture Princeton. The victories reassured American control over New Jersey. -
Battle of Philadelphia
Both the British and Continental Army were battling over Philadelphia. The British armies tricked and outmaneuvered the Continental army by splitting the troops and sending them to different areas to delay their arrival. This seemed to be successful because this led to Philadelphia's capture by the British. -
Valley Forge
After the Surrender at Saratoga, the soldiers of the continental army were running out of food and supplies and were dying in Valley Forge. More than 2,000 soldiers died. The survivors did not give up, in fact, Washington wrote letters of their suffering to Congress. -
Surrender at Saratoga
General John Burgoyne planned to lead an army to Albany, where he would meet British troops and together would isolate New England from the Colonies. As Burgoyne was traveling to Albany, soldiers from the Continental army gathered Burgoyne alone because he had not realized that his soldiers were in keeping colonists in Philadelphia. He had surrendered and the France allied with the Americans. -
Marquis De Lafayette
Foreign military leader, Marquis De Lafayette offered to help the colonists during their suffering in Valley Forge. Lafayette persuaded the French to help strengthen the continental army and led a command at the end of the war. With their help the army came back stronger. -
Defeat at Yorktown
British General, Charles Cornwallis, led his army to Yorktown which he planned to fortify. The French had blocked the entrance of the Chesapeke Bay so that other British troops could enter. The French and American troops surrounded the British on the Yorktown peninsula and attacked them. Shortly after, Cornwallis surrendered and the Americans had defeated the British. -
Treaty of paris
John Adams, John Jay and Benjamin Franklin signed the Treaty of Paris which confirmed the independence of the United Sates.
