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Major battles of the American revolution

By BillYuan

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Location: in Boston, Massachusetts, British America
    important person: Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
    people involved: British army, patriots
    won: the patriots.
    Why is it significant: The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British Parliamentary authority.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Location: in Boston, Massachusetts
    important person: sons of liberty
    people involved: Sons of Liberty, the East India company
    won: sons of liberty
    why is it important: The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress
    Location: at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    important person: Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, John Jay, Edward Rutledge, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, Samuel Adams, and John Adams
    people involved: delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
    won: no
    why is it significant: The second accomplishment of the Congress was to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775.

  • The Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress
    location:Philadelphia
    important person:John Hancock
    people involved:delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
    won: no
    why is it significant: The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord
    location: in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge
    important person: Thomas Gage
    people involved: Militia and British
    won: Militia
    why is it important: Strategic American victory
    • British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord
    • Militia successfully drive British back to Boston
    • Start of the American Revolutionary War

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    location: Launched from Breed’s Hill
    important person: none
    people involved: Redcoats, colonial forces
    won: British (with mortality double the number of patriot soldiers)
    why is it significant: boosted the confidence of colonists
    is it a turning point: no

  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    location: Trenton
    important person: George Washington
    people involved: colonist, British forces
    won: colonists
    why significant: America and control over much of MewJersey, improved morale of the colonists
    is it a turning point: probably not

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    location: Saratoga
    important person: British General John Burgoyne
    people involved: British force, colonists
    won: colonists
    why significant: convinced the French government to be an ally
    is it a turning point: yes

  • Treaty of Alliance

    Treaty of Alliance
    location:
    important people: Benjamin.Franklin, Silas Deane Arthur Lee
    people involved：Benjamin.Franklin, Silas Deane Arthur Lee
    no winner, France and America became allies
    why significant: French formally set agreement with America
    is it a turning point: no, but it is important to the winning of American Revolution

  • Battle of Guildford Courthouse

    Battle of Guildford Courthouse
    location: North Carolina
    important people: Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis(British),Major General Nathanael Greene
    people involved: British force, colonists
    who won: British, but they suffered great loss
    why significant: it set the winning basis for the colonists
    is it a turning point: no

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    location: Yorktown
    important people: George Washington,Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis
    comte de Rochambeau
    people involved: colonists, French, British
    who won: colonists
    why significant: it’s the last major war in America Revolution
    is it a turning point: no, but it’s the last battle.

  • Treaty of Paris （1783）

    Treaty of Paris （1783）
    Location: Paris, France
    important person: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams from the United States, David Hartley and Richard Oswald from Britain
    people involved: the United States, the Britain
    won: the United States
    why is it significant: It ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter.