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Lexington
700 British troops went to lexington on their way to concord. They ran into 70 minutemen and told them to leave their weapons and go. They ended up shooting at the british troops and they injured 18 minutemen, this was first battle of the revolutionary war and it lasted 15 minutes. -
Concord
The British marched on to Concord, where they found an empty arsenal. After a brief skirmish with minutemen, the British soldiers lined up to march back to Boston, But the march quickly became the slaughter. -
Bunker Hill
Gage sent 2,400 British Soldier up the hill. The colonists held their fire until the last minute and then began to mow down the advancing redcoats before finally retreating. -
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin, The famous American writer, scientist, statesman, and diplomat, represented the colonies in London throughout the growing feud with Britain. As resistance in the colonies turned to bloodshed, however, Franklin fled London in 1775 and sailed home to Philadelphia -
New York
The British sailed into New York harbor in the summer of 1776 with a force of about 32,000 soldiers. They included thousands of German Mercenaries, or hired soldiers, known as hessians because many of them came from the German region of Hesse. -
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 (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
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. -
Valley Forge
Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–78 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed more than 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. -
Marquis De Lafayette
In the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown
In 1781, a combined American force of Colonial and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Yorktown proved to be the final battle of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations shortly after the American victory. -
Treaty of Paris
In1783, 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.
