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Lexington And Concord
The Battle of Lexington was a very small fight. You could hardly call it a battle, but it's important because it's where the Revolutionary War started. When the British arrived, there were only around 80 American militiamen in the town. They were led by Captain -
Bunker Hill
On June 17, 1775, 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. -
Battle of Quebec 1775
Anecdotes from the Battle of Quebec 1775: Major-General Richard Montgomery, killed during the American attack on Quebec on 31st December 1775, was a half-pay British officer. Montgomery first went to America in 1757, as an officer in the British 17th He fought at the Siege of Louisburg in 1758. -
Charleston, June 1776.
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. -
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. -
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. -
Rhode Island, August 1778
The Battle of Rhode Island, also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill and the Siege of Newport, took place on August 29, 1778. ... The battle took place in the aftermath of the first attempt at cooperation between French and American forces following France's entry into the war as an American ally. -
Kings Mountains
Battle of Kings Mountain, (October 7, 1780), 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.
