Fighting the Revolutionary War,

By jeslyn1
  • Concord

    Concord
    The town of Concord, Massachusetts, was alerted to the advance of British forces by Dr. Samuel Prescott shortly after midnight on April 19.
  • Lexington

    Lexington
    In February, the British Parliament declared the colony of Massachusetts to be in open rebellion and authorized British troops to kill the violent rebels.
  • Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)

    Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
    The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, as part of the site of Boston during the American Revolutionary War
  • Long Island

    Long Island
    The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was a defeat for the Continental Army under General George Washington and the beginning of a successful campaign that gave the British control of the strategically important city of New York.
  • Trenton

    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.
  • Princeton

    Princeton
    The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) was a small battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey.
  • Ticonderoga

    Ticonderoga
    The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York.
  • Brandwine Creek

    Brandwine Creek
    The Battle of Brandywine was one of the military confrontations of the American War of Independence, which occurred on September 11, 1777
  • Saratoga

    Saratoga
    The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Monmouth

    Monmouth
    The Battle of Monmouth was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
  • Savannah

    Savannah
    The Siege of Savannah or the Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in 1779.
  • Vincennes

    Vincennes
    On January 29, 1779, Francis Vigo, an Italian fur trader, came to Kaskaskia to inform Clark about Hamilton's reoccupation of Vincennes.
  • Guildford Courthouse

    Guildford Courthouse
    The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War.
  • Camden

    Camden
    The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the southern theater of war for American independence.
  • Cowpens

    Cowpens
    The Battle of Cowpens1, January 17, 1781, took place in the latter part of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution and of the Revolution itself.
  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
  • King's Mountain

    King's Mountain
    The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Charleston

    Charleston
    The Battle of Charleston was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).