american revolution timeline

  • Marquis De Lafayette

    helped to trained the continental army.
  • Lexington

    British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons
  • Concord

    kicked off the revolutionary war
  • Bunker Hill

    Boston was being besieged by thousands of American militia. British were trying to keep control of the city and control its valuable seaport.
  • New York

    It happened right after the United States declared it's independence. and was a decisive defeat for George Washington and his Continental Army. It was a decisive defeat for George Washington and his Continental Army.
  • Trenton

    Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned
  • Philadelphia

    Hosted the first continental congress. It held in carpenter's hall before war
  • Saratoga

    The battle had a turning point in war because it convince potential partners such as France
  • Valley forge

    Washington and his continental army desperately low food and supplies
  • Yorktown

    A french naval force defeated a British fleet and then blocked entrance to the chesapeake
  • Treaty of Paris

    Confirmed the U.S independence and set boundaries of the new nation