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Lexington
700 redcoats or british troops reached lexington, Massachusett. They saw 70 minutemen in a lines on the village green. The British commander ordered the minutemen to back down, but they did not. Then, someone fired a shot, and the british troops fired back. 8 minutemen were killed and 10 were injured. Only 1 british troop was injured. This was the first battle of the Revolutionary war. It only lasted 15 minutes. -
Concord
After the british were finished in Lexington, they marched onto Concord. There they found an empty arsenal. After they a brief fight with minutemen, they lined up to march back to Boston, but that ended quickly. They were met by 3 to 4 thousands minutemen. The minutemen fired at the British troops behind walls and trees. British troops were dying by dozen. The remaining troops made their way back to boston that night. -
Bunker Hill
British general Thomas Gage decided to strike at militiamen on Breed’s Hill. He sent 2,400 British soldiers up the hill and the minute they got up the hill, the colonist started to fire until they retreated. The colonist lost 450 men, but the british lost over 1000 men. -
New York
The British sailed into New York harbor with a force of about 32,000 soldiers. They attempted to seize New York. The colonies was poorly equipped and they retreated. -
Trenton
Washington risked everything. He led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-choked Delaware river. They defeated a garrison of Hessians in a surprise attack. -
Saratoga
Burgoyne was surrounded by American troops and he surrendered. This happened because his fellow team members were preoccupied with holding Philadelphia and they could not meet him. This turned out to be one of the most important events in the American Revolution war. -
Valley Forge
Washington and his Continental Army were desperately low on food and supplies, so they fought to stay alive at a winter camp in Valley Forge. More than 2,000 soldiers died, but the survivors did not leave. -
Marquis De Lafayette
Lafayette arrived in Valley Forge to help train the Continental Army. In 1779, he lobbied France for French reinforcements and led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war. -
Philadelphia
the Congress appointed Robert Morris as superintendent of finance. He had a associate named Haym Salomon. He was a Jewish political refugee from Poland. They begged and borrowed on their personal credit to raise money to provide salaries for the Continental Army. They raised funds from Philadelphia’s Quakers and Jews. -
Yorktown
The colonists continued to battle Cornwallis. The British general then chose to fight Virginia. He led his army of 7,500 onto the peninsula between the James and York rivers. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by the delegates. The Treaty of Paris confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of the new nation. The United states can now from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to the Florida border.