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Battles of Concord & Lexington (MA)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord the British won. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord -
Battle of Fort. Ticonderoga (NY)
During the Revolutionary War, when the British controlled the fort, it was attacked in the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga by the Green Mountain Boys and other state militia under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, who captured it in the surprise attack.Winner of the Battle of Ticonderoga 1777: The Americans withdrew precipitately from Ticonderoga leaving it in British hands. -
battle of bunkerhill
the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost during the Siege of Boston (April 1775-March 1776). -
Battle of Long Island (NY)
The Battle of Long Island was a decisive victory for the British. George Washington and the Continental Army were eventually forced to retreat all the way to Pennsylvania. The British remained in control of New York City for the rest of the Revolutionary George Washington won the battle -
Battles of Trenton & Princeton (NJ)
General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
Battle of Brandywine Creek (PA)
General Sir William Howe and General Charles Cornwallis launch a full-scale British attack on General George Washington and the Patriot outpost at Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the road linking Baltimore and Philadelphia.Washington ordered his men to abandon their posts and retreat. Defeated, the Continental Army marched north and camped at Germantown, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. Burgoyne surrendered his army. The American cause had achieved its most decisive victory to date. -
Battle of Charlestown
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on May 12, 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. -
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Cowpens - At the Cowpens, a frontier pastureland, on January 17, 1781, Daniel Morgan led his army of tough Continentals and backwoods militia to a brilliant victory over Banastre Tarleton's battle-hardened force of British regulars -
Yorktown / Surrender
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined
