Kailey's timeline

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    1-The british
    2-Sam Adams and John Hancock
    3-Joseph Warren told Revere and William dawes that the british troops were coming.
    4-1,200 soldiers died , 6,354 died from disease.
    5-when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.
  • battle of fort ticonderago

    battle of fort ticonderago
    On May 10, 1775, Benedict Arnold of Massachusetts joined Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont in a dawn attack on the fort, surprising and capturing the sleeping British garrison. Although it was a small-scale conflict, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga was the first American victory of the Revolutionary War, and would give the Continental Army much-needed artillery to be used in future battles.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    1-1775
    2-William prescott
    3-2
    4-British- they said it was a sobering experience
    5- Joseph warren , Andrew McClary
  • battles of trenton

    battles of trenton
    General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton (December 26),
  • battle of saratoga

    battle of saratoga
    Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. On September 19th, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold.
  • Battle of yorktown

    Battle of yorktown
    1781, a combined American force of Colonial and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. Led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses and leading to the surrender.