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Lexington and Concord
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First battles of revolution, British army sent to destroy military supplies of Massachusetts militia stored at Concord, patriots preemptively moved supplies, minutemen drove back the outnumbered British regulars -
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Siege of Boston
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Washington besieged British for 11 months to prevent their movement at the beginning of the war and British withdrew by sea -
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Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had a surprise attack and successfully captured the fort, south of Laake Champlain -
Arnold's Kennebec Expedition
led 1100 continental army troops from cambridge massachusetts up Kennebec river in Maine to quebec city as part of 2 prong invasion of quebec, province of Britain, the other expedition by Richard Montgomery invaded from Lake Champlain, Arnolds men starved -
Battle of Quebec
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devastating loss for americans, led by richard montgomery from lake champlain and arnold up kennebec river from cambridge, massachusetts, montgomery killed, arnold wounded in leg, ended w/ retreat back to fort ticonderoga -
Battle of New York
Wikipediaa series of campaigns for new york, william howe vs george washington, considered a bad move by washington to try to maintain new york because it has a lot of rivers, estuaries, etc but washington has no navy -
Battle of Valcour Island
Wikipediasee above + arnold set up a line on valcour island and said british come at me, and they blew up his fleet, his men got on shore, and they delayed the british just enough that they had second thoughts about proceeding because winter was coming--they thought they didnt have enough time to make the march to new york so they turned back -
Battle of Long Island
part of the Battle of New York, Washington defeated by British, began successful British campaign for control of New York City, first battle after US declared independence, largest battle of the war in terms of soldier count -
Battle of Trenton
Wikipediagarrisoned by hessians/germans, over next several days, washington tried to acquire as much info as he could about them and it was mostly from the people who sold stuff to them--they were feeding info to the hessians that there was mutiny within the army and the americans were weak--stuff that would put the hessians off their guard--they wanted to cross the delaware and attack trenton--christmas night, germans loved drinking and partied heavily such that when they woke up on 26th on december the -
Saratoga Campaign
Wikipediabritish attempt to gain military control of the hudson river valley and divide american colonies, initiated by general burgoyne -
Battle of Fort Stanwix
Wikipediaunsuccessful siege by st. leger after losing indian support, defeated by benedict arnold -
Battle of Oriskany
Wikipediabattle of saratoga campaign, early in siege of ft stanwix, american relief force from mohawk valley under general nicholar herkimer and party of oneida indians approached to try to lift the siege. St leger authorized intercept force, lots of patriots died -
Battle of Freeman Farm
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burgoyne captured as part of saratoga campaign, but british had huge losses -
Battle of Bemis Heights
WikipediaBurgoyne attempted to flank Benedict Arnold, Arnold held up, but Horatio Gates, after internal disagreements, stripped Arnold of his command -
Battle of Brandywine Creek
Wikipediawashington vs howe, howe beats washington, forces retreat to philadelphia, near chadds ford pennsylvania, -
Battle of Germantown
Wikipediaa battle in the campaign for philadelphia. howe vs washington, british victory, ensured that British kept Philadelphia -
Capture of Philadelphia
WikipediaHowe landed 15000 troops at northern chesapeake bay, washington positioned men and was outflanked, British took the city and garrisoned troops in germantown and secured Delaware river -
Battle of Valley Forge
Wikipedia20 miles from philadelphia, washington trains troops with von Steubens help/expertise, trained at valley forge for a surprise attack on philadelphia during the winter -
Battle of Princeton
Wikipediaunder general charles cornwallis--proceeds down delaware to capture washington once and for all--surrounds washington and pins him to river--they stop there for the night and say they’ll take care of it in the morning--washington makes a break for it in the night and overpowers the weaker flank and takes their supplies and escapes to new jersey--british are now near delaware without supplies lol -
Surrender at Saratoga
Wikipediaburgoyne ordered british retreat to saratoga and they were later surrounded by americans, beginning oct 13, there were negotiations for surrender and burgoyne gave gates his sword and they marched out while american army played yankee doodle -
Battle of Monmouth
WikipediaContinental Army + Washington vs British Clinton, washington victorious. Washington was waiting to intercept british army as they headed up to new york city. Charles Lee, former british officer, thought he knew it all and washington was like okay why dont you lead our army into battle? lee was scared by british and retreated and washington cussed at him then beat back british until night time and british snuck off in night and marched on to new york. huge victory for washington's clout -
Serapis vs Bonhomme Richard
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John Paul Jones forced surrender of British captain Richard Pearson by raiding Britain while the british navy was everywhere else -
Kaskaskia and Vincennes
kaskaskia is a village in illinois that clark captured, and vincennes is the fort in detroit that the english captured and clark recaptured--theres a vincennes clark memorial -
Battle of Charleston
Wikipediabritish focus shift to south, US Ben Lincoln surrendered 5,000 troops to the british -
Battle of King's Mountain
cornwallis vs mountain men, patriot win, weakened british adv to south -
Battle of Camden
WikipediaBritish victory, cornwallis beats gates 10 km from Camden South carolina, strengthened british stronghold on south carolina, embarrasing for gates -
Yorktown Campaign
Wikipediamilitary maneuvers leading to siege of yorktown, British Cornwallis surrendered, led to peace negotiations--british marching band was playing "The World Turned Upside Down" -
The Cowpens Battle
battle in south in cowpens, daniel morgan defeated tarlton -
Battle of Gulford Courthouse
technically a victor for cornwallis but they lost a lot of men to nathaniel greene
