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Lexington
The battle of lexington's is the battle between 70 minutemen and 700 redcoats. Only 8 minutemen were killed and 10 were injured by the all of shots by the British troops and only 1 British troop was killed. The battle lasted only 15 minutes and it’s the first revolutionary battle. -
Concord
The British troops marched onto Concord to find an empty arsenal right after the battle of Lexington. Quickly right after of the battle there was a small skirmish between the British troops and the minutemen. But as the redcoats line up to march back to Boston they were then ambushed by between 3,000 and 4,000. The redcoats had started to be killed by the dozen, and after the bloody humiliation, the redcoats had made their way back to Boston. -
Bunker Hill
The British general Thomas Gage had sent 2,400 troops to Bunker hill. As the British advanced up the hill the minutemen had held their fire until the right moment. As the moment came the minutemen had then started to mow down the advancing redcoats. Once the smoke from shot had cleared there were only 450 colonial troops killed and while the British had suffered 1,000 casualties. -
New York
The British sailed to New York to capture and to stop the rebellion. They sailed with 32,000 troops and with German mercenaries(Hessians). They had untrained and poorly armed soldiers of the continental army trying to defend but they were pushed out of New York and across the Delaware river into Pennsylvania. -
Trenton
General Washington began a bold move on the Christmas of 1776 then he sailed across the cold river of Delaware to Trenton, New jersey and defeated a garrison of Hessians with a surprise attack. -
Saratoga
General John Burgoyne wanted to lead an armed force down a course of lakes from Canada to Albany. He got together with British troops as they touched base from New York. Burgoyne had traveled through forested wild. Militiamen and troopers from the mainland armed force assemble from all over New York and New England. There was a fight on two fronts, the fight with Burgoyne and the fight with his fellow British officers in Philadelphia. The american troops had surrendered Burgoyne at Saratoga. -
Valley Forge
With the continental troops low on food and supplies while they fought in valley Forge, Pennsylvania. There were more than 2,000 men who died. But the survivors of the fight did not desert at all. They stood their ground and their tolerate bad times and suffering filled Washington letter to congress and his friends. -
Marquis De Lafayette
A man named Friedrich Von Steuben prepared mainland officers. In any case, additionally other outside military pioneers, for example, Marquis De Lafayette had prepared Continental officers. In 1779 Lafayette had likewise campaigned France to send french fortifications and drove a charge in Virginia in the most recent year of the war. In any case, with the outside help the mainland armed force turned into a successful battling power. -
Philadelphia
A rich merchant named Robert Morris was selected top level manager of finance. He then worked with Haym salomon to create money to pay for the continental troops. With the troops leaving their wives, it had left most of the women to attend the farm and some of them even went to war. -
Yorktown
In mid 1781 a British general named Charles Cornwallis had lead 7,500 troops onto the promontory between the James and York waterway, and stayed outdoors at Yorktown. When Lafayette and Washington had heard word that Cornwallis had set up camp in Yorktown,they started to make out of here Yorktown. In late september around 17,000 french and american troops encompassed Yorktown and the started to besieging them day and night. At that point on october18,1781, Cornwallis had at long last surrendered -
Treaty of Paris
In Paris 1782, the arranging group of the pilgrim included John Adams, John jay of new York, and Benjamin Franklin. In September 1783, the representatives had marked arrangement of Paris, which then affirmed U.S autonomous and set limits of the new country. The United states extended from the Atlantic sea to the Mississippi River and from Canada fringe to the Florida Border.