Battles of the American Revolution

Lexington and Concord

• April 19, 1775 – Massachusetts

• A: Captain Isaac Davis• B: General Thomas Gage

(planner of the attack)• American Victory• Extra Info: −“Shot Heard Round the

World”

Bunker Hill• June 1775 – Massachusetts• A: William Prescott, Dr. Warren• B: Major John Pitcairn• British Victory• Extra Info:

−Colonists ran out of ammunition−“Don’t shoot until you see the

white’s of their eyes!”−Dr. Joseph Warren dies

Ticonderoga and Crown Point

• May1775 – New York• A: Ethan Allen & Benedict

Arnold• American Victory• Extra Info: −Green Mountain Boys−Nobody was killed−Took British artillery

Montreal• November 1775 – Canada• A: Richard Montgomery• American Victory• Extra Info:

Quebec• December 1775 – Canada• A: Richard Montgomery &

Benedict Arnold• British Victory• Extra Info: −Montgomery was killed and Arnold was wounded

Long Island and White Plains

• October 1776 – New York• A: George Washington• B: William Howe• British Victory• Extra Info: −Howe could have won war−Nathan Hale captured

Trenton and Princeton• Dec1776 & Jan 1777 – New

Jersey• A: George Washington• American Victory• Extra Info: −Washington crosses the Delaware River on Christmas night to surprise the Hessians in Trenton

Oriskany• Aug 1777 – New York• B: Barry St. Leger• American Victory• Extra Info: −Defeated on his way to Albany, NY

Brandywine and Germantown

• Sept & Oct 1777 – Pennsylvania

• A: George Washington• B: William Howe• British Victory• Extra Info:

Saratoga• Oct 1777 – New York• A: Horatio Gates• B: John Burgoyne• American Victory• Extra Info:

−Led to Treaty of Alliance with France (turning point of the war)

−Benedict Arnold became a traitor after this battle

−Washington spent the winter at Valley Forge

Kaskaskia & Vincennes

• July 1778 & Feb 1779– Illinois and Indiana

• A: George Rogers Clark• American Victory• Extra Info:

Bonhomme Richard vs. Serapis

• Sept 1779 – Atlantic Ocean• A: John Paul Jones• American Victory• Extra Info: −“I have not yet begun to fight!” JPJ

Savannah, Charleston, Camden, Wilmington

• Dec 1778-Feb 1781– Southern US

• A: Nathanael Greene• B: Charles Cornwallis• British Victory• Extra Info:

King’s Mtn, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse

• Oct 1780-March 1781– Southern US

• A: Nathanael Greene• B: Charles Cornwallis• American Victory• Extra Info:

Yorktown• Oct 1781– Virginia• A: George Washington, Marquis

de Laffayette & Francois de Grasse

• B: Charles Cornwallis• American Victory• Extra Info:

−de Grasse blocked Cornwallis from receiving supplies

−End of the war

Vocabulary• Hessians- German soldiers hire

by the British• Mercenaries- Hired soldiers• Privateers- Privately owned

ships used for war• Treaty of Alliance- France

agrees to help the Americans• Treaty of Paris- Ends the

American Revolutionary War