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The American Revolution begins
700 British troop on a missin to capture Patriot leader, it was 5am. A Patriot arsenal march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town common green. John Pitcairm orderse the outnumbered Patriots to disperse. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended eigth Americons lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only 1 Brithish soldier was injured. That the American Revolution begun -
Lexington
April 19, 1775: Lexington - the first battle of the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Concord -
Concord
Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston -
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American Revolution begin
700 British troop on a missin to capture Patriot leader, it was 5am. A Patriot arsenal march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town common green. John Pitcairm orderse the outnumbered Patriots to disperse. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended eigth Americons lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only 1 Brithish soldier was injured. That -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey -
Marquis De Lafayette
French general and political leader who enthusiastically supported the American Revolution. The Continental Congress appointed him as major general in 1777, before France had officially entered into an alliance with the United States. -
New York adopts state constitution
In 1777 the frist New York state consitution is formally adopted by convention of Representative of the State N.Y meeting in the upstate town of Kingston -
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New York adopts state constitution
In 1777 the frist New York state consitution is formally adopted by convention of Representative of the State N.Y meeting in the upstate town of Kingston -
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. -
Philadelphia,
The British had captured Philadelphia on September 26, 1777, following General George Washington’s defeats at the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of the Clouds. British General William Howe had made Philadelphia, the seat of the Continental Congress, the focus of his campaign, but the Patriot government had deprived him of the decisive victory he hoped for by moving its operations to the more secure site of York one week before the city was taken -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War -
Treaty of Paris
In 1783, 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.
