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Lexington and Concord
Patriot Leader- John Parker
Red Coat Leader- Gen. Thomas Gage
Strategic importance:
-Paul Revere, William Dawes , and Samuel Prescott rode at night to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming for them and the supplies.
-Minutemen: Colonial soldiers that were "ready at a minute's notice" -
Fort Ticonderoga
Colonial leader: Ethan Allen
Redcoat leader: Lord Dunmore
Strategic Importance:
- British troops had help from Hessian Mercenaries -
Breed's/Bunker Hill
Colonial leader- William Prescott
Redcoat leader- Gen. William Howe
Strategic Importance:
- Colonists fortified Breed's Hill so they could fire their cannons at British ships -
Trenton
Colonial leader: Gen. George Washington
Hessian leader: Col. Johann Rall
Strategic Importance:
- Washington and the colonial army crossed the Delaware River the previous night and took the Hessians by surprise -
Saratoga
Colonial Leader: Horacio Gates, Benedict Arnold
British Leader: Gen. John Burgoyne
Strategic Importance:
- the patriots could defeat sizeable regiments of the ledger British army
- it would be a long and expensive war of the British were to win -
Siege of Charleston
Colonial leader: Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln,
British leader: Lieut. Col. Banstre Tarleton, Gen. Cornwallis
Strategic Importance:
- The British attacked from the south to take the colonists by surprise -
King's Mountain
Colonial Leader: Col. Eilliam Campbell
British Leader: Maj. Patrick Ferguson
Strategic Importance:
- Patriots charged the hillside in a suicidal attack -
Yorktown
Colonial Leader: Gen. George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette
British Leader: Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis
Strategic Importance:
- Patriot blocked the land escapes and French forces blockaded the sea escapes, forcing the British to surrender