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Loyalists and Patriots
Patriots were people who wanted the American colonies to gain their independence from Britain. They wanted their own country called the United States. While the Loyalists were loyal to Britain and defended Britain. -
Battle of Lexington & Battle of Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. Americans won the battle -
Battle of the Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown. British won the battle. Was named the deadliest battle of the war. -
Redcoats Push Washington's army across Delaware river into Pennsylvania
During July of 1766 the British army pushed the American army across Delaware into Pennsylvania. Washington risked it all and held 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-chocked Delaware -
Washington's Christmas night surprise attack
Washington led his army across ice-chocked Delaware river and surprise attacked the British army, his objective was Trenton, New Jersey - and defeated a garrison of marched to their objective -
Saratoga
American troops finally surrounded a British officer, John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York. Where he surrendered on October 7, 1777. Burgoyne's plan was to go around the battles, more towards the North and going into Canada, by which flanking the enemy and joining forces with the other British armies that were supposed to be there by the time of his arrival, but they were not and he was left alone to face his fate. -
Valley Forge
Washington's desperate army was trying to stay alive at the winter camp in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania while running out of supplies. Losing more than 2,000 soldiers -
Fredrich van Steuben and Marques de Lafayette
Friedrich von Steuben was a Prussian captain and a great drill-master that helped prepare the American soldiers for the battles. Marquis de Lafayette a French commander led the command in Virginia last years of the war -
French-American alliance
The Franco-American alliance was the 1778 alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Formalized in the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, it was a military pact in which the French provided many supplies for the Americans. -
British victories in the South
After many losses in the North, British army moved South and won many battles under generals Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis captured Charlestown. Cornwallis won many battles in Virginia and decided to move north to join Clinton's forces -
British surrender at Yorktown
Armies of Lafayette and Washington move South towards Yorktown. Meanwhile French naval forces beat the British naval forces and blocked the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, blocking the supplies from coming in. By late September about 17,000 troops surrounded the remaining British army on the Yorktown Peninsula and began bombarding them day and night. October 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders.Shocking the world with the victory of Americans. -
Treaty of Paris
Peace talks began in Paris 1782, American negotiators included: John Adams, John Jay of New York, and Benjamin Franklin. They signed the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed the independence of U.S. and set boundaries making it a new nation
