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Boston
the British launched an assault in June resulting in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is also on the same day as Concord and Lexington battle -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The American army lost to the British army. The British army earned Pennsylvania. -
Trenton
General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries. the Continental Army captured nearly nine hundred Hessian officers and soldiers as well as a large supply of muskets, bayonets, swords, and cannons. -
Princeton
Continental Army soldiers under the command of General George Washington defeated a force of British troops near Princeton, New Jersey The victory at Princeton rescued the Patriot cause from one of its darkest hours. -
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Saratoga
Burgoyne and his troops, defeated, began a march to the town of Saratoga where they entrenched themselves once again in hopes of escaping. Gates's army had surrounded them and forced them to surrender. So the American Army won. -
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Valley Forge
12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children marched into Valley Forge and began to build what essentially became the fourth largest city in the colonies at the time, with 1,500 log huts and two miles of fortifications. The Continental Army struggled to manage a disastrous supply crisis while simultaneously retraining and reorganizing their units in an effort to mount successful counterattacks against the British. -
The foreign officers arrive
Three years into the Revolutionary War. The Continental Army had just endured a punishing winter at Valley Forge. -
Monmouth
Monmouth was the first battle to test Washington as commander-in-chief after the Conway Cabal affair.the Continental Army remained in the field while the British Army redeployed to New York. Around 600 people died. -
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Clinton takes the Carolinas and Georgia
The American general refused, so Clinton ordered the city bombarded with heated shot. As Charleston burned, Lincoln had no choice but to accept the inevitable. The siege of Charleston finally came to a close on May 12, 1780. With General Lincoln's surrender, an entire American army of roughly 5,000 men ceased to exist. -
Concord and Lexington
The British soldiers arrived at Lexington at 8:00 a.m. The most known saying is "For Gods sake, Fire!" 5 Minute men died due to being shot. -
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Yorktown
Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Paris
France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. that was the ending of the War of the American Revolution. -
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End of the fighting
The British army surrendered to Yorktown.The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, which marked the end of the Revolutionary War. -
Addition of Freed African soldiers
As a result, on July 17, 1862, Congress passed the Second Confiscation and Militia Act, freeing slaves who had masters in the Confederate Army. African Americans enjoyed a period when they were allowed to vote and more.