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