American revolution

Battles of The American Revolution

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    First military engagements of the American Revolution.
    fought in Lexington but it it dragged out into concord by the time the fighting stopped, the British had lost 73 men killed and many more wounded, compared to the Patriots’ loss of 49 men killed.
  • Battle of Bunker

    Battle of Bunker
    Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charleston, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle.
  • Battle of New York

    Battle of New York
    Two brothers, General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe, joined force sailed into New York harbor in
    the summer of 1776 with the largest British expeditionary
    Washington rallied 23,000 men to New York’s defense, but he was vastly outnumbered.
    chaotic withdrawal on August 27, 1776.
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    Washington resolved to risk everything on one bold
    stroke set for Christmas night, 1776.he led 2,400
    men in small rowboats across the ice-choked Delaware River.the Hessians had drunk too much rum the night before and were still sleeping it off. In a surprise attack, the Americans killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and six Hessian cannons.
  • Fight for Philidalphia

    Fight for Philidalphia
    General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital at
    Philadelphia.The Continental Congress fled the city
    while Washington’s troops unsuccessfully tried to block the redcoats at nearby Brandywine Creek.The British captured Philadelphia,
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    The battle of saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.Burgoyne set out with 4,000 redcoats, 3,000 mercenaries, and 1,000 Mohawkunder his command.The French recognized American independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation, with the Americans in
    February 1778. According to the terms, France agreed not to make peace with Britain unless Britain also recognized American independence
  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Winter at Valley Forge
    It would take months for French aid to arrive. In the
    meantime, the British controlled New York and parts of New England.Soldiers suffered from exposure and
    frostbite, and surgeons like Albigensian Waldo worked constantly but often unsuccesfully to save arms and limbs from amputation.
  • British take South

    British take South
    After their devastating defeat at Saratoga, the British changed their military strategy.in the summer of 1778 they began to shift their operations to the South.
  • British Losses in 1781

    British Losses in 1781
    Washington ordered Nathanael Greene, his ablest general, to march south and harass Cornwallis as he retreated.Greene sending 600 soldiers under the command of General Daniel Morgan to South Carolina.Morgan and his men led the British When the forces met in January 1781 at Cowpens, South Carolina, the British expected the outnumbered Americans to flee but the Continental Army fought back, and forced the redcoats to surrender. Angered by the defeat at Cowpens, Cornwallis attacked Greene two months
  • British surrender at Yorktown

    British surrender at Yorktown
    A Frenchnaval force defeated a British fleet and then blocked the
    entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, thereby preventing a British
    rescue by sea.Meanwhile, about 17,000 French and
    American troops surrounded the British on the Yorktown
    peninsula and bombarded them day and night. The siege of
    Yorktown lasted about three weeks. October 17, 1781,
    with his troops outnumbered by more than two to one and
    exhausted from constant shelling, Cornwallis finally raised
    the white flag of surrender.