Battles of the American Revolution. Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775 – Massachusetts A: Captain Isaac Davis B: General Thomas Gage (planner of the.

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”

−“If they mean to have a war, let it begin here!” Captain John Parker

Bunker Hill• June 1775 – Massachusetts• A: William Prescott, Dr. Joseph 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−1000 British killed to 400 Patriots

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

Arnold• American Victory• Extra Info:

−Green Mountain Boys−Nobody was killed−Took British artillery

American Invasion of Canada: The Battles of Montreal and

Quebec

Montreal• November 1775 –

Canada• A: Richard Montgomery• American Victory• Extra Info: • Ethan Allen Captured\

Released in prisoner exchange in 1778

Quebec• December 1775 –

Canada• A: Richard Montgomery

& Benedict Arnold• British Victory• Extra Info:

− Disaster for Americans

− Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded

− Canada will remain loyal to Britain

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Canadian Militia attack Benedict Arnold’s Americans in fierce street

fighting in Quebec Canada

Long Island and White Plains

• October 1776 – New York• A: George Washington• B: William Howe• British Victory• Extra Info:

−Disaster for Americans: Continental army escaped to Brooklyn. Washington was on very last boat to leave Long Island minutes before British army arrived.

−Nathan Hale captured and executed−New York City captured by British/

Washington chased across New jersey to Pennsylvania

Nathan Hale: American Spy Executed

“I regret I have but one life to give to my country!”

Washington Crosses the Delaware

Trenton• Christmas Day 1776– New

Jersey• A: George Washington• B: Hessian Colonel Johann

Rahl• American Victory• Extra Info:

− Washington crosses the icy Delaware River on Christmas night to surprise the Hessians in Trenton

− 800 Hessians captured− Morale boost to the

Patriot cause

Princeton• January 2, 1777– New

Jersey• A: George Washington• B: Charles Cornwallis• American Victory• Extra Info:

- Washington outmaneuvers two British armies using back country unknown to the British and captures Princeton

- British troop withdraw to New York for the winter.

Emanuel Leutze, “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1861)

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The crossing began around 11:00 pm Christmas Eve 1776 and ended at 3:00 am. Part of Washington’s army could not cross do to ice on the river. During the crossing it began to snow.

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 Victories• Extra Info:

−British marched up from Maryland−Philadelphia captured by British−Washington spends winter at Valley

Forge 20 miles from Philadelphia

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

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

− General Benedict Arnold’s actions wins the battle. He is seriously wounded.

− Arnold never receives the recognition he though he deserved. His wife, a secret loyalist, convinces him to defect to the British. Arnold hands over a strategic fort on the Hudson River, West Point, to the British Army, becoming the most famous traitor in American History.

Battle of Monmouth• June 28, 1778- New Jersey• A: George Washington• B: Sir Henry Clinton• Draw• Extra Info:

− 11, 000 Americans versus 15,000 British and Hessians

− Americans professional army formed at Valley Forge stood toe to toe with the British and did not run.

− Legend of Molly Pitcher: She ran water to the soldiers dodging musket shoot. May have fired the canon

Baron Von Steuben drills troops at Valley Forge during the winter of

1777-177812,000 troops were at Valley Forge. 2,000 died of diseases.

At Valley Forge the Continental Army was turned into the professional army George Washington wanted.

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

Citations• Captain John Parker “If they mean to have a war, let it begin here!”• "Minute Man Statue Lexington Massachusetts cropped" by Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts.jpg: w:User:Daderotderivative work:

Hohum (talk) - Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts.jpg. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts_cropped.jpg#/media/File:Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts_cropped.jpg

•  • Washington Crossing the Delaware, oil on canvas painting by Emanuel Leutze. Measures 149 x 255 in.• "Last Words of Nathan Hale by Alexander Hay Ritchie" by Alexander Hay Ritchie - Yale University Art Gallery [1]. Licensed under Public Domain

via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Words_of_Nathan_Hale_by_Alexander_Hay_Ritchie.jpeg#/media/File:Last_Words_of_Nathan_Hale_by_Alexander_Hay_Ritchie.jpeg

•  • "Fort Ticonderoga 1775" by Heppenheimer & Maurer - The New York Public Library digital library. Image ID: 808517. Licensed under Public

Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Ticonderoga_1775.jpg#/media/File:Fort_Ticonderoga_1775.jpg•  • {{Information |Description=The women of '76: "Molly Pitcher" the heroine of Monmouth |Source=Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Division |Date=Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |Author=Currier & Ives. |Permission=PD-US |• {{Information |Description=Colonel w:William Washington at the Battle of Cowpens |Source=[http://www.archives.gov/research/american-

revolution/pictures/images/revolutionary-war-053.jpg image] {{NARA-image|id=532886}} |Date=not specified |Author=S. H.• John Trumbull, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Oil on Canvas, 1820 http://www.aoc.gov/cc/photo-gallery/ptgs_rotunda.cfm•  • "Serapis and Bonhomme Richard" by Richard Paton. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serapis_and_Bonhomme_Richard.jpg#/media/File:Serapis_and_Bonhomme_Richard.jpg• 2005-07-25 05:59 Albrecht 585×494×8 (344470 bytes) [[Benedict Arnold|Arnold's]] column is shattered in fierce street fighting during the

[[Battle of Quebec (1775)]]. Illustration by Allan Daniel. Online at [http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/ Canadian Military Heritage], [http://www.forces.gc.ca Department of Defence

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_militiamen_and_British_soldiers_repulse_the_American_assault_at_Sault-au-Matelot.jpg• Charles Henry Jeens, http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/lafayetteprints/mdl-prints-0493 #sthash.wLVw6q0e.dpuf, •  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riflemen_at_Saratoga.jpg {{Information |Description={{en|1=Depiction of American riflemen at the

Battle of Saratoga, October 7, 1777}} |Source=U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C.; http://www.history.army.mil/html/artphoto/pripos/prporevwar.html |Author=U.S. Arm

• "Baron Steuben drilling troops at Valley Forge by E A Abbey" by Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) - http://vafowmc.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baron_Steuben_drilling_troops_at_Valley_Forge_by_E_A_Abbey.png#/media/File:Baron_Steuben_drilling_troops_at_Valley_Forge_by_E_A_Abbey.png

Citations• "Baron von Steuben at Valley Forge, 1777" by Augustus G. Heaton (1844–1930) -

http://www.archives.gov/research/american-revolution/pictures/images/revolutionary-war-041.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baron_von_Steuben_at_Valley_Forge,_1777.jpeg#/media/File:Baron_von_Steuben_at_Valley_Forge,_1777.jpeg