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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Spring of 1775 Gage became concerned about reports brought up to him about large amounts of arms and munitions hidden outside of Boston. General Gage began to ready his troops quartered in Boston, minutemen were watching. Night of April 18, Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott went out to spread word 700 British Regulars were headed for Concord. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
British General Thomas Gage decided to strike at militiamen who had dug in on Breed's hill, north of the city and near bunker hill. Morning of June 17,1775 Gage sent out 2,400 British troops. The British troops made 3 attacks. When the smoke cleared, colonist had lost 450 men, while the British had suffered over 1,000 casualties. Misnamed Battles of Bunker hill would prove to be the deadliest battle of war. -
Battle of New York
General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe, joined forces on Staten Island and sailed into New York harbor in the summer of 1776 with the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled 32,000 soldiers. -
Battle of Trenton
In the face of a fierce storm in 1776. Washington led 2,400 men in small row boats across the ice choke Delaware river. By the morning the men marched 9 miles through the snow to Trenton, New Jersey. The Americans were rallied by another astonishing victory eight days later against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton. -
Fight for Philadelphia
In 1777 General Howe started his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia. Continental congress fled the city while Washington 's troops unsuccessfully tried to block the redcoats at nearby Brandy wine creek. -
Battle of Saratoga
Continental Congress appointed General Horatio Gates to order the Northern Department of the Continental Army. American Troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates on October. -
Winter at Valley Forage
British controlled New York and parts of New England. British troops wintered comfortably in Philadelphia. Washington and his army struggled trying to stay alive. Soldiers got exposed to frostbite. Out of the 10,000 soldiers more than 2,000 died -
British take South
Spring of 1778, a royal governor once again ordered Georgia . In 1780 General Henry Clinton, who had replaced Howe in New York, along with ambitious general Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men. 1780 redcoats advanced, they were joined by African Americans who escaped patriot slave. -
British losses in 1781
Washington commanded Nathanael Greene to march south and harass Cornwallis as he retreated. He divided his troops into 2 groups. Cornwallis attacked Greene 2 months later at Guilford Court house in North Carolina. Cornwallis won the battle but victory costed him. Greene weakened the British, he worries about the fight on April 3, 1781, he wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for help. -
British surrender at Yorktown
Followed by Lafayette's plan, the Americans and French closed in on Cornwallis. About 17,000 French and American troops surrounded British on the Yorktown peninsula and bombarded them day and night. On October 17,1781 Cornwallis raised a white flag for surrender because he was outnumbered.
