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Battles of the Revolutionary War Summary Chart

|BATTLE NAME OR WAR EVENT & DATE|LOCATION |SUMMARY OF EVENTS |OUTCOME |

|Battle of Lexington |Concord, MA |British General Thomas Gage sent troops to seize colonial weapons and ammunition. |Revolutionary War has begun |

|and Concord |Lexington, MA |Patriot Scouts like Paul Revere let the Minutemen know British troops were coming. | |

|April 1775 | |Confrontation in which British soldiers tell colonists (Minutemen) to throw down their arms. | |

| | |Shots fired. | |

|Battle of Bunker Hill |Across the harbor from Boston|British, under the leadership of General Thomas Gage and Sir William Howe, attack the colonial army, |Colonial army ran out of ammunition, so they had to |

|June 1775 |at Bunker Hill and Breed’s |under the command of Colonel William Prescott. |retreat. |

| |Hill |Colonial army had set up a strong position overlooking the harbor |Colonists lost the battle and the British took over |

| | |The Redcoats (British army) crossed the harbor and charged up the hill. |the hill. |

| | |Colonel William Prescott commanded the colonial troops, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their | |

| | |eyes.” (He was concerned that they would not have enough ammunition, so he didn’t want his soldiers to | |

| | |fire until they were close enough to be sure they would hit someone.) | |

| | |After the British army charged three times, the colonial army ran out of ammunition. | |

|Battle for New York |Long Island, Manhattan, | Under the command of General William Howe, the British have nearly 30,000 troops on Long Island compared|Washington’s troops had dwindled to about 3,000 men |

|August-October 1776 |Brooklyn Heights, White |to the approximately 8,000 colonial troops under the command of General George Washington. |British took over New York City |

| |Plains, (all in New York), |The British continually defeat the colonists, forcing the colonists to retreat back into New Jersey and | |

| |then across New Jersey, and |then into Pennsylvania. | |

| |into Pennsylvania | | |

|BATTLE NAME OR WAR EVENT & DATE|LOCATION |SUMMARY OF EVENTS |OUTCOME |

|Battle for New Jersey |Delaware River, Trenton, New |General George Washington crossed the Delaware into New Jersey, surprising the Hessians at Trenton, New |These victories boosted American confidence and |

|December 1776-January 1777 |Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey|Jersey. |forced the British back to New York. |

| | |American military captured 1,000 men and valuable ammunition. | |

| | |Washington’s troops then defeated the British regulars (the trained British army) at Princeton, NJ. | |

|British Battle Plan |Northeastern area of the |Three-pronged attack( |British military planned to win the war against the |

|1777 |colonies |Take Albany and take control of the Hudson River. |colonists using these strategies. |

| | |Move East from Lake Ontario. | |

| | |General Howe’s group moves north from New York City | |

|Brandywine Creek |Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |British military, under direction of General Howe, defeat George Washington’s army and capture |Our capital city, Philadelphia, is controlled by the |

|September 1777 |(capital city of the United |Philadelphia. |British. This would be like Washington, DC being |

| |States of America) | |taken over. |

|Saratoga |Saratoga, NY |British Army, under the command of General Burgoyne, tried to cut New England off from the rest of the |American victory signaled to the rest of the world |

|October 1777 | |colonies. (Would have probably led to our defeat because we needed the men and supplies that the all the |that we were actually capable of winning the war. |

| | |colonies had. Remember that New England was the “center” of Revolutionary activity, especially in |This brings FRANCE into the war on our side, which |

| | |Boston.) |will mean a lot to the military!!! |

| | |Patriot Army (Americans) under General Horatio Gates, captured more than 5,000 British troops. | |

|Valley Forge |Valley Forge, Pennsylvania |The American army suffered during a brutal winter outside Philadelphia. |One of the low points of the war. We did not have |

|Winter 1777-1778 | |George Washington’s soldiers were poorly clothed and poorly fed. |much in the way of supplies. Morale falls. |

|BATTLE NAME OR WAR EVENT & DATE|LOCATION |SUMMARY OF EVENTS |OUTCOME |

|Battle of Yorktown |Yorktown, VA |British General Cornwallis stationed his troops on the Yorktown peninsula. (Think about what a peninsula |British General Cornwallis sends General Charles |

|August 1, 1781 | |is….) |O’Hara to surrender on October 19, 1781. |

| | |They get supplies in via ship. |For the Americans, General Benjamin Lincoln accepts |

| | |General George Washington requested that the French fleet (their Navy ships) blockade the British ships |the surrender. |

| | |so they cannot bring supplies to the army and so the British army has no transportation by water. | |

| | |American army blocks the land route of escape. | |

|Treaty of Paris |Paris, France |Benjamin Franklin, , John Jay, and John Adams negotiated the settlement with Ministers from England |Terms of the Treaty: |

|1783 | |appointed by King George III. |Formally recognized the United States of America as a|

| | | |free and independent nation. |

| | | |Gave America land from the Atlantic Ocean to the |

| | | |Mississippi River. |

| | | |Pulled remaining British troops from United States |

| | | |territory. |

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