American Revolution Timeline

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  • New York

    New York
    • New York played a decisive and crucial role in America's fight for independence
    • New York’s Revolutionary Era is hidden behind modern buildings and obscure signs.

  • Marquis De Lafayette

    Marquis De Lafayette
    -The Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat who joined the American Revolutionary War at his own reques
    -Lafayette was the son of a general in the royal navy

  • Lexington

    Lexington
    -about 250 where killed or wounded on the colonist side
    -1783 the colonists formally won their independence.

  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    -The British had won the so-called Battle of Bunker Hill
    -by the end of the engagement, the Patriots’ gunfire had cut down some 1,000 enemy troops, with more than 200 killed and more than 800 wounded

  • Trenton

    Trenton
    -It was on christmas day
    - won two crucial battles of the American Revolution.

  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia

  • Saratoga

    Saratoga
    • the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution
    • Burgoyne attacked first

  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge
    • No battle was fought at Valley Forge. Yet, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -Some couldn't take the cold, hunger, and uncertainty any longer. There were dozens of desertions. Disease debilitated. Death descended in droves.

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    -a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops
    -He ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown

  • Treaty Of Paris

    Treaty Of Paris
    • the United States agreed to use its powers to end the persecution of Loyalists by state and local governments and to restore their property confiscated during the war
    • The preliminary articles of peace were signed by Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Henry Laurens