Road to Independence

By cristie fife

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere made his midnight ride to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops - 700 of them - were marching to Concord to arrest them. True, warning Adams and Hancock triggered Revere's ride from Boston.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration elaborated on why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent states, no longer under the rule of the king. With the Declaration, these 13 colonies got closer to forming the United States of America.

  • Washington's Crossing

    The location of Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26, 1776 in the American Revolutionary War. This crossing led to victory in the Battle of Trenton.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    The Battles of Saratoga marked the peak of the Saratoga campaign, giving a final victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army's main body. In September 1777, British forces had captured the American capital of Philadelphia. After failing to retake the city, Washington led his 12,000-man army into winter quarters at Valley Forge.

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    The Battle of Yorktown was a 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. The siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American region, as the British surrendered.