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Battle of Lexington and Concord
The significance of this was that it started the revolutionary war.
In 1759 British forces captured the part of North America that is now Canada. The war ended in 1763 and won, Great Britain obtained large amounts of land.
They were the first confrontations of the War of Independence of the United States. The British soldiers, depleted, had to retreat after a pitched battle against the Minutemen in the open. -
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
In the Battle of Trenton (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing.
By April 1775, when hostilities broke out between colonial militiamen and British soldiers at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts , the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga numbered barely 50 men.
Cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga would be used during the successful Siege of Boston the following spring. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
It took place the 17 of June of 1775
On June 16, 1775, after learning that the British were planning to send troops from Boston to occupy the hills surrounding the city
The Americans outnumbered were forced to withdraw. However, at the end of the confrontation, the shots of the Patriots had shot down some 1,000 enemy troops, with more than 200 dead and more than 800 wounded. More than 100 Americans were killed, while more than 300 were injured. -
Battle of Trenton
United after the passage of the Delaware River by General George Washington to Trenton, New Jersey.
Is still standing as a tribute to this crucial American victory.
Continues to the present as a tribute to this crucial victory American Trenton was occupied by three regiments of the original soldiers of Hesse commanded by Colonel John Rall for a total of about 1,200 men. -
Battle of Saratoga
The British did not cut the colonies of New England, the French entered the side of the colonies and Benedict Arnold was put in the way of a traitor.
The Battle of Saratoga, which comprised two significant battles during September and October 1777, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution -
Battle of King’s Mountain
During the American Revolution, Patriot irregulars under Colonel William Campbell defeat Tories under Major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of King’s Mountain in South Carolina.
Major Ferguson’s Tory force, made up mostly of American Loyalists from South Carolina and elsewhere, was the western wing of General Lord Cornwallis’ North Carolina invasion force. One thousand American frontiersmen under Colonel Campbell of Virginia gathered in the backcountry to resist Ferguson’s advance. -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown took place during the War of Independence of the United States of America between September 26 and October 19, 1781.
Washington began to award decorations by arranging troops from the Virginia colony to support the British Empire during the Franco-Indian War (1754-1763), a conflict he inadvertently helped to initiate.
The battle was fought in Yorktown, Virginia's colony, besieged for several weeks. On the one hand, we have 8,000 Britons under Lord Charles Cornwallis
