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BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). -
Lexington and Concord
During the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. -
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
NEW YORK IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The British commanders felt humiliated after being driven from Boston. A ragtag militia had imprisoned them in the city and then forced them out with a canon seized from one of their own British forts -
BATTLES OF TRENTON AND PRINCETON
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. -
BATTLE OF 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.
