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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
was not the coldest nor the worst winter experienced during the war, but regular freezing and thawing, plus intermittent snowfall and rain
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Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army to the British when he made secret overtures to British headquarters in May 1779
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USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812
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whose words were written by Francis Scott Key on Sept. 14, 1814, during the War of 1812 with Great Britain, was adopted by Congress as the U.S. national anthem in 1931. -
was a battle fought between British and American forces in the War of 1812. -
between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army
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Andrew Jackson elected president in 1828
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ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
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Lincoln took office following the 1860 presidential election
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South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860
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Bull Run was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. -
The surrender at Appomattox Court House was a military surrender of an army which was surrounded
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The Battle of Gettysburg marked the turning point of the Civil War. -
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War
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On February 15, 1898, an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor -
was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution. 13 day siege -
For the next three years the Filipinos carried on a guerrilla warfare campaign against U.S. rule.