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American Revolution Battles
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
The Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
As the first rebel victory of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga served as a morale booster and provided key artillery for the Continental Army in that first year of war. Cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga would be used during the successful Siege of Boston the following spring. -
The Battle of Chelsea Creek
The Battle of Chelsea Creek ended in victory for the American colonists - it was also the first naval engagement of the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Chelsea Creek took place on Saturday, May 27, 1775 at Suffolk County, Massachusetts. -
The Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill
On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. This took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts. -
The Battle of Quebec
This battle was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle was the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses. -
The Battle of Long Island
The Battle of Long Island is also referred to as the Battle of Brooklyn Heights and took place on Tuesday, August 27, 1776 at Long Island, New York. The very day of the evacuation of British forces following the Siege of Boston on March 17, 1776, George Washington ordered 5 regiments of the Colonial Army to New York. -
The Battle of White Plains
The British and American forces met in battle at the village of White Plains under General Howe and General George Washington. Howe's soldiers constructed a basic bridge across the Bronx to take the steep Chatterton's Hill. The British were successful in forcing an American retreat from White Plain village. -
The Battle of Fort Washington
The Battle of Fort Washington was a battle fought in New York on November 16, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was a British victory that gained the surrender of the remnant of the garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island. -
The Battle 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, Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
The Battle of Princeton
The Battle of Princeton ended in victory for the American colonists. The Battle of Trenton had been a surprising and a significant victory for the Americans and a crushing defeat for the Hessian army. General Charles Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lt. Colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton. -
The Battle of Oriskany
Battle of Oriskany, (August 6, 1777), in the American Revolution, battle between British troops and American defenders of the Mohawk Valley, which contributed to the failure of the British campaign in the North. ... The battle that followed resulted in heavy casualties for both sides. -
The Battle of Bennington
Turning point of the American Revolution. Vermont's unique holiday on August 16th is in honor of the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. Here Brigadier General John Stark and his American forces successfully defeated two detachments of British General John Burgoyne's invading army in 1777. -
The Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Brandywine. Battle of Brandywine, in the American Revolution, engagement near Philadelphia in which the British defeated the Americans but left the Revolutionary army intact. Confident of success, Howe hoped to draw Washington into a decisive battle. -
The Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm)
The two battles of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights) marked the climax of the Saratoga Campaign 1777. They gave a decisive victory to the Americans over the British. He won a small tactical victory over Major General Horatio Gates in the Battle of Freeman's Farm. -
The Battle of Germantown
The Battle of Germantown was a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was fought on October 4, 1777, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, between the British Army led by Sir William Howe, and the American Continental Army, with the 2nd Canadian Regiment, under George Washington. -
The Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
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. -
The Battle of Monmouth
The Battle of Monmouth took place on a Sunday, at Monmouth, New Jersey. The British, Sir Henry Clinton, the new British commander, retreated from Philadelphia to New York. As Sir Henry Clinton led the British army across the Jerseys, George Washington decided to attack. -
The Capture of Savannah
The city of Savannah, Georgia, had been captured by a British force under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege of Savannah was undertaken by a joint French and American force in an attempt to retake Savannah from the British. The siege lasted from September 16 to October 18, 1779. -
The Siege of Charleston
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. -
The Battle of Camden
The Battle of Camden in South Carolina was a lopsided victory for the British during the American Revolutionary War. Despite the proliferation of dysentery among his men, Continental General Horatio Gates chose to engage British General Charles Cornwallis's force -
The Battle of King's Mountain
Battle of Kings Mountain, in the American Revolution, American victory over a loyalist detachment in South Carolina during the British campaign in the South. ... He assigned Major Patrick Ferguson and his force of Loyalists to secure the region to the west of the mountains. -
The Battle of Cowpens
The victory forced the British army to retreat and gave the Americans confidence that they could win the war. The Battle of Cowpens took place in the hills just north of the town of Cowpens, South Carolina. The Americans were led by Brigadier General Daniel Morgan. -
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Although British troops under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) scored a tactical victory at Guilford Courthouse over American forces under Major General Nathanael Greene (1742-86), the British suffered significant troop losses during the battle. -
The Battle of Eutaw Springs
There was only one more battle in the South which occurred at Eutaw Springs. The Eutaw Springs took place on Saturday, September 08, 1781 at Eutawville, South Carolina. Greene was also defeated in this battle but the British abandoned the rest of the Carolinas and Georgia with the exception of Savannah and Charleston. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Americans and their French allies decided to besiege Cornwallis at Yorktown. Rochambeau led his men to New York and joined the main American army. The British army was decimated and the Revolutionary war was virtually over.
