Revolutionary War Timeline

By deliafrederick

  • End of the Seven Years War

  • Passage of the Stamp Act

  • British troops occupy Boston

  • Committees of Correspondence established

  • Period: to

    Britain tries to intimidate Massachusetts

  • War breaks out

  • Americans hold their own at the Battle of Bunker Hill

  • British form an alliance with patriots' slaves

  • Loyalists defeated at Moores Creek

  • South Carolinians repel British attempt to take Charlestown

  • America declares its independence

  • Period: to

    Washington crosses the Delaware

  • Big British setback at Saratoga

  • Winter of change for the Continental army

  • France enters the war against Britain

  • George Rogers Clark attacks the British in the Ohio country

  • Charleston falls to British

  • Kings Mountain victory revives patriot hopes

  • the American tide continues at the Cowpens

  • Costly British victory at Guilford Courthouse

  • Longest siege of the war at Ninety Six

  • Large British army surrenders at Yorktown

  • Loyalists leave America

  • treaty of Paris officially ends state of war

  • American victory pushes Indians farther west

  • US Constitution replaces the Articles of Confederation