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American Revolution Battles
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
This battle occurred in both Lexington and Concord Massachusetts. They were the first official military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The Colonial forces were led by Paul Revere and the Patriots defeated the British. -
The Siege of Fort Ticonderoga
The capture of Fort Ticonderoga was when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the fort's small British garrison. -
The Battle of Chelsea Creek
This battle occurred in Suffolk County, Massachusetts where the patriots emerges victorious. It was the second military engagement of the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle occurred in Charlestown Massachusetts. However this battle was misnamed and actually occurred on Breeds Hill. The British defeated the Americans at the Battle, but the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy which ended up boosting their troops moral. -
The Battle of Quebec City
The battle was fought in Quebec City on the Province of Quebec, It the first major defeat of the war for the Americans, and it came with heavy losses. -
The Battle of Long Island
This battle occurred in Long Island, New York and is also known as the battle of Brooklyn Heights. This battle led to a British victory where British forces captured New York City and Long Island from the Continental Army, The victory over the Americans gave the British control of the strategically important city of New York. -
The Battle of White Plains
After stopping at Pell Point, the British continued north up the East River, engaging in daily skirmishes with Washington’s Continental Army, until the two armies, both 13,000 strong, confronted each other at the inconclusive Battle of White Plains, beginning on October 28, 1776. On October 31, after a bad storm, Washington chose to withdraw to New Jersey before Howe could orchestrate another attack with newly arrived reinforcements. -
The Battle of Fort Washington
This battle occurred in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. Hessian Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen and a force of 3,000 Hessian mercenaries and 5,000 Redcoats took Fort Washington at the northern end and highest point of Manhattan Island. As a result 53 Patriot troops were killed and 96 were wounded. -
The Battle of Trenton
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. In the Battle of Trenton (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. -
The Battle of Princeton
A week after the Battle of Trenton Washington and his troops returned to Trenton to lure British forces south. They then executed a daring night march to capture Princeton on January 3 from British General Cornwallis. 40 Patriots and 275 British soldiers died during ensuing Battle of Princeton. After the defeat, the British chose to leave most of New Jersey to Washington. -
The Battle of Oriskany
This battle occurred in Oriskany, New York where Patriot General Nicholas Herkimer’s militiamen from Tryon, County, New York, are ambushed as they attempt to relieve Fort Stanwix (now Rome, New York), which was occupied by the British. Herkimer was mortally wounded during the ensuing fight and died 10 days later. -
The Battle of Bennington
Both sides were held up by heavy rain. British Colonel Nichols and Colonel Herrick attacking from the rear and flank. American Colonel Hobart attacked the Tory militia entrenched on the near side of the river and Brigadier Stark assaulted the main advanced body of German and British troops. The German force suffered 900 casualties, killed, wounded and captured. The Americans suffered 70 casualties. The Americans captured the four guns and many small arms. -
The Battle of Brandywine
General Sir William Howe and General Charles Cornwallis launch a full-scale British attack on General George Washington and the Patriot outpost at Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford. Although the Americans were able to slow the advancing British, they were soon faced with the possibility of being surrounded. Surprised and outnumbered by the 18,000 British troops to his 11,000 Continentals, Washington ordered his men to abandon their posts and retreat. -
The Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm)
Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. During the first encounter at Freedman's Farm British General John Burgoyne achieved victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. -
The Battle of Germantown
British forces in Pennsylvania defeated the American Continental Army under General George Washington. British General William Howe (1729-1814) camped a large contingent of his troops at nearby Germantown. Washington launched a surprise attack on the poorly defended British camp, but his army failed to pull off his complex battle plan. The British drove away the Americans, inflicting twice as many casualties as they suffered. -
The Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights)
Burgoyne’s second attack met with a fierce American resistance, spearheaded by Major General Benedict Arnold, in the wooded area of Bemis Heights south of Saratoga. Known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, or the Second Battle of Saratoga, this American victory proved to be a major turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Monmouth
The Continental Army under General George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton as they left Monmouth Court House. The Continental Army successfully intercepted the British Army on their trek from Philadelphia. -
The Capture of Savannah
British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2500 and 3600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia. American Major General Robert Howe and his paltry force of between 650 and 900 men were severely outnumbered. The Patriots lost 83 men and another 483 were captured, while the British lost only 3 men and another 10 were wounded. -
The Siege of Charleston
The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy in late 1777 and their withdrawal from Philadelphia in 1778, shifted their focus to the American Southern Colonies. The Siege of Charleston ended in victory for the British. -
The Battle of Camden
Continental General Horatio Gates chose to engage British General Charles Cornwallis’s force on the morning of August 16, 1780. The illness depleted the Patriot advantage in troop numbers, and the British pressed forward aggressively as the sole side in possession of bayonets. With the encounter resulting in nearly 2,000 Patriots killed or taken prisoner and heavy losses of artillery, Gates was removed from command and replaced by Nathanael Greene. -
The Battle of King's Mountain
One thousand American frontiersmen under Colonel Campbell of Virginia gathered in the backcountry to resist Ferguson’s advance. Pursued by the Patriots, Ferguson positioned his Tory force in defense of a rocky, treeless ridge named King’s Mountain. The Patriots charged the hillside multiple times, demonstrating lethal marksmanship against the surrounded Loyalists. Furgeson was killed and men tried to surrender, but were murdered. -
The Battle of Cowpens
American troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan routed British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton. The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign. -
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
British soldiers under Cornwallis went on the offensive against Greene’s 4,400 to 4,500 Continental troops and militia. The battle raged for around two hours before Greene ordered his troops to retreat, giving the British a tactical victory but enabling Greene’s army to remain mostly intact. More than 25 percent of Cornwallis’s men were killed, wounded or captured during the battle. -
The Battle of Eutaw Springs
American Revolution engagement fought near Charleston, South Carolina, between British troops under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart and American forces commanded by General Nathanael Greene. Both the Patriots and the British forces claimed victory over this battle. -
The Battle of Yorktown
A combined force of Colonial and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. Led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses and leading to the surrender, just days later, of British General Lord Corwallis and nearly 9,000 troops. Yorktown proved to be the final battle of the American Revolution, and the British began peace negotiations shortly after the American victory.
