The Revalutionary War Timeline

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    The ballte of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revalutionary War; tension had been building between the British and the 13 colonies
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    June 17, 1775 the british defeated the defeated the americans of the battle of bunker hill in Massachusetts.
  • Long Island

    Long Island
    The battle of long island was a defeat to the continental army that was under the control of George Washington that gave British the control of the strategically important city of New York.
  • Trenton

    Trenton
    The Battle of Trenton was a small but the central battle during the American Revolutionary War
  • Princeton

    Princeton
    The Battle of Princeton was a small battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces.
  • Ticonderoga

    Ticonderoga
    July 6, 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York. Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's 8,000-man army occupied high ground above the fort, and nearly surrounded the defences.
  • Brandywine Creek

    Brandywine Creek
    The battle of Brandywine Creek, was fought between the American army of General George Washington and the British army of General Sir William Howe on September 11, 1777.
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga
    The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
  • Monmouth

    Monmouth
    The Battle of Monmouth was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
  • Vincennes

    Vincennes
    The Siege of Fort Vincennes was decisive victory on behalf of an Illinois patriot militia led by Revolutionary War commander Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark
  • Savannah

    Savannah
    The Siege of Savannah or the Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in 1779.
  • Charleston

    Charleston
    The Battle of Charleston was one of the major battles which took place toward the end of the American Revolutionary War, after the British began to shift their strategic focus to the American Southern Colonies.
  • Camden

    Camden
    On August 16, 1780, the Revolutionary War Battle of Camden, South Carolina, pitted American forces under Major General Horatio Gates against a small British field force commanded by Lieutenant General. Charles, Lord Cornwallis.
  • King's Mountain

    King's Mountain
    The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War
  • Cowpens

    Cowpens
    The Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781 was a decisive victory by Continental Army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan in South Carolina over the British Army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton, during the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Guilford courthouse

    Guilford courthouse
    On the afternoon of March 15, 1781, American and British forces clashed for several hours near Guilford Courthouse. The battle was the culmination of several months of hard campaigning by the armies of Nathanael Greene and Charles Cornwallis.
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    The Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force