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Battles
The American Revolution
Fort Ticonderoga, NY1775
Patriots needed weapons
earlier captured British fort
dragged 59 cannons, 2300 pounds of lead to Boston (300 miles)
Bunker Hill, MAJune 16, 1775
Patriots built fort on hill
British stormed it 3 times
Patriots ran out of gunpowder
British took the hill1000 British
casualties500 Patriot
casualties
Dorchester Heights, MAMarch 4, 1776
Patriots placed cannons on hills
aimed at British ships in Boston Harbor
British left Bostonfled to Canada
over 100 ships9,000 soldiers1100 Loyalists
New York City, NYAugust 27, 1776
2 days of fightingBritish lost 377
menPatriots lost 1407British took the
cityAmericans were
inexperiencedBritish let
Patriots retreat
Trenton, NJ Dec. 25, 1776
Patriots crossed Delaware River
snowstormcaught Hessian
mercenaries (British side) by surprise
Patriots took 868 POWs
no Patriots diedboost to American
morale
Saratoga, NYOct. 17, 1777
British want to divide Patriots by taking NY
General Burgoyne led 8000 British & Indians from Canada to NY
slowed by trees, riversmet by rebels who
outnumbered themBritish surrenderedboost to American moraleafter France & Spain
became allies
Valley Forge, PAend of 1777 to start of 1778
Americans camped there for winter
short of food, clothing, shoes, blankets
farmers sold food to British (not Patriots) for gold
von Steuben from Prussia trained them
Lafayette from France brought clothing
Monmouth, NJJune 28, 1778
British left Philadelphia & retreated to NY
Americans chased them across NJ
battleWashington rallied his
menBritish crossed Hudson
River to NYCBritish failed to capture
any northern state
Battles in the South1780
British invaded the south
Americans used guerrilla warfare…quick hit-and-run raids
chased British to exhaustion
British retreated to Yorktown, VA
Yorktown, VAOct. 6-19, 1781
16,000 Americans & French trapped British by land
8000 British waited to be rescued
29 French warships closed off Chesapeake Bay
British surrenderedlast big battle of war
Treaty of Paris1783
peace treaty (agreement) between U.S. and Britain
Britain recognized U.S. as independent nation
Britain gave up land between Atlantic and Mississippi
U.S. agreed to return property to Loyalists
Results of the American Revolution
Americans won their independence
25,000 Americans died- 6,200 in battle- 10,000 from diseases- 8,500 as prisoners
• inspired struggle for independence in other places
- France- Latin America