Revolutionary War

  • Marquis De Lafayette

    Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was a French general and political leader who enthusiastically supported the American Revolution. The Continental Congress appointed him as major general in 1777, before France had officially entered into an alliance with the United States. Lafayette was wounded at Brandywine in September 1777, and endured the miserable winter at Valley Forge with Washington and his troops.
  • Lexington

    Lexington
    The colonists on april 18 1775 they was in boston and they were wacting something that was important to them but Also eight minutemen were killed and ten more was wounded but only one BRITISH soldier was injured and they was confuse.
  • Concord

    Concord
    In concord on april 19 , 1775 They found an empty arsenal and the brief skirmish with the minutemen became a slaughter and they had enemies and as the BRITISH troops underneath the siege.
  • Bunker Hill

    On June 17 1775, The gage was sent of 2,400 BRITISH soldiers and they finally began to mow down the advancing and as the king rejected the petiton he had an issue and everything change completely on him.
  • New York

    New York
    In 1775 , The American Fortunes were revived in the battles of orlskeny and saratoga following 1778 military activity in new york lessoned as the focus shifted to the south
  • Trenton

    Trenton
    On the 25th of christmas in 1776 over the course of the next ten days they won two crucial battel of trenton. Washington defeated a formidable garrison of hessian merecraries before withdrawing.
  • Vally Forge

    On June 19, 1778, exactly six months after they Americans arrived, a new army anxious to fight the British streamed out of Valley Forge toward New Jersey. They had been transformed from Rebel into a Mature Army.
  • YorkTown

    On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary Wa
  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens. Laurens, however, was captured by a British warship and held in the Tower of London until the end of the war, and Jefferson did not leave the United States in time to take part in the negotiati
  • Philadelphia

    Philadelphia
    In December 14 1800 , It housed both contirental congresses amd they both are independen and the constitution were written there and the philadelphia were the lenape indiana