Revolutionary War Battles Chart - Hurta History



Revolutionary War Battles Chart Mrs. Hurta

US I History

|Name of Battle |Location |Date (Month/Year) |Significance |

|Lexington |MA |April 1775 |Minutemen fought – loss for colonists |

|Concord |MA |April 1775 |Loss for colonists-British destroyed colonial |

| | | |supplies |

|Bunker Hill |MA |June 1775 |Started on one hill (Bunker Hill) and continued |

| | | |on better location (Breed’s Hill). Colonists had|

| | | |little ammunition. “Don’t shoot until you see |

| | | |the whites of their eyes!” British won. |

|Moore’s Creek Bridge |NC |February 1776 |“Lexington & Concord of the South”. Patriots |

| | | |defeated the Loyalists Army. |

|Staten Island |NY |July 1776 |British landed in NY |

|Brooklyn Heights |NY |August 1776 |British won |

|Long Island |NY |August 1776 |General Howe attacked Washington and forced |

| | | |retreat of the Americans. Americans had high |

| | | |casualties. |

|Trenton |NJ |December 24/25, 1776 |Hessians (British side) were drunk, Washington’s |

| | | |troops crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, |

| | | |surprise attack and won. No American casualties.|

|Princeton |NJ |January 1777 |Washington tricked the British by leaving their |

| | | |fires burning and ambushing the British troops. |

|Bennington |VT |October 1777 |Americans defeated Burgoyne which led to his |

| | | |defeat in Saratoga. |

|Saratoga |NY |October 1777 |Americans won and gained formal alliance with |

| | | |France (1778), Spain (1779), and the Netherlands |

| | | |(1780) |

|Brandywine |PA |July 1777 |Purpose: to protect Philadelphia. The British |

| | | |defeated Americans. |

|Germantown |PA |July 1777 |Purpose: to protect Philadelphia. American |

| | | |defeat led to retreat to Valley Forge. |

| | | | |

|Valley Forge |PA |Winter 1777-78 |Long, hard winter where the soldiers faced little|

| | | |food and shelter. Many soldiers died of |

| | | |frostbite or lack of food. The women and |

| | | |colonists found out and sent supplies to the |

| | | |fort. |

|Vincennes |VA |February 1779 |British originally lost this post and two others,|

| | | |won them back again, and then lost them for good |

| | | |in this battle. |

|Sea Battles |North Sea |September 1779 |Bonhomme Richard (Am) attacked the Serapis (Br) |

| | | |while on fire. Jones brought the Richard close |

| | | |to the Serapis, then the colonists took over the |

| | | |ship like pirates. |

|Camden |SC |1780 |British won. |

|King’s Mountain |SC |October 1780 |Patriots were so hostile to the Loyalists that |

| | | |they killed the wounded as they tried to |

| | | |surrender. |

|Cowpens |SC |1781 |Greene and Morgan (Am) beat Cornwallis using |

| | | |guerilla warfare. They forced him out of the |

| | | |Carolinas into Virginia. |

|Yorktown |VA |Summer 1781 |The French fleet in the Atlantic Ocean blockaded |

| | | |British. Cornwallis was forced to surrender to |

| | | |the Americans. |

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