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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
