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Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston and was on King Street in Boston -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest and dumped 342 chests of tea Americans were angry because of taxation without representation -
Lexington and Concord
The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock and was fought in Massachusetts -
Battle of Bunker Hill
In the Battle of Bunker HillThe American patriots were defeated the battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson, declaring the freedom to thirteen American colonies from Great Britain -
British capture New York
New Yorkers heard the cannon blasts of the Battle of Long Island. Five days later, an expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars, 10 ships of line, 20 frigates, and 170 transports defeated Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invaded Manhattan Island. -
Battle of Trenton
Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing -
Saratoga
he Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
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. -
Battle of Monmouth
The significance of the conflict was that the American retreat ordered by General Charles Lee allowed Clinton's army to continue to New York City. -
British capture of Savannah
British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia. -
British Capture of Charles Town
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory, fought between March 29 to May 12, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George