American Revolution

By ChristianMaurath02

  • Lexington

    Lexington
    The battle of Lexington was one of the first revolutionary wars, Lexington was 5 miles away from Concord, on a cold and windy morning, 70 minutemen were in line on the village green and preparing for battle, after their were 8 of them killed and ten wounded, this lasted no more than 20 minutes.

  • Concord

    Concord
    In the Concord Revolution many british marched into Concord and while marching in about 3,000 to 4,000 minutemen have assembled, after many british soldiers fell.

  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    While in Boston, General Thomas Gage a british man, planned to attack at militiamen on the Breed's Hill. Gage has sent his soldiers about 2,400 up the hill. And the british had suffered about 1,000 casualties.

  • New York

    New York
    To stop the rebellion in England the british decided to seize New York with about 32,000 men.

  • Trenton

    Trenton
    The Battle of Trenton was won by the American forces. The battle pitted approximately 2,400 soldiers of the Continental Army, commanded by George Washington, up against about 1,400 Hessian soldiers commanded by Colonel Johann Rall.

  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge
    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington. In September 1777, British forces had captured the American capital of Philadelphia.

  • Sagatora

    Sagatora
    The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia
    The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British initiative in the American Revolutionary War to gain control of Philadelphia, which was then the seat of the Second Continental Congress.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris of 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay negotiated the peace treaty with Great Britain

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    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