American Revolution timeline

  • Lexington

    Lexington
    Lexington was the first battle which only lasted 15 minutes and led to concord .
  • Concord

    Concord
    Massive slaughter between minutemen and the british soldiers fell by the dozen.
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    Thomas gage sent 2,400 soldiers while the colonists held their fire until last minute last minute by the time the smoke cleared the colonists had lost 250 men.
  • New York

    New York
    the british quickly attempted to seize nyc, and brought in 32000 soldiers and included german mercenaries.
  • philadephia

    philadephia
    The british pushed washington's army across the delaware river into PA, and they captured the american capital at philadelphia
  • Trenton

    Trenton
    they marched to their objective, jersey and defeated garrison of hessian in a surprise attack.
  • Saratoga

    the saratoga victory bolstered frances belief that the americans could win the war and signed an alliance with the americans
  • philadelphia

    december The british pushed washington's army across the delaware river into PA, and they captured the american capital at philadelphia
  • valley Forge

    the troops at rice and vinegar and their feet were frostbitten , and washington tried to stop them.
  • marquis

    Marquis De Lafayette, offered help, led a command in virginia the last year of the war with the help of the european military leader
  • yorktown

    The final battle where people surrendered including cornwallis who was the leader.
  • Treaty Of Paris

    The delegates signed the treaty of paris which confirmed the us independence and became a new nation, it became larger from the canada border to florida