Name of Battle
Year
Where did it take
place?
Mainly Ohio River
Valley (but there
were previous
battles throughout
Europe)
French and Indian
War
1754
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Boston Tea Party
November 1773
Battle of Lexington
April 18, 1775
Lexington,
Massachusetts
Battle of Concord
April 19, 1775
Concord,
Massachusetts
Boston,
Massachusetts
Boston,
Massachusetts
Who were the
participants?
French & Indians
(Hurons &
Alogonquins) vs.
British, Colonists,
& Indians
(Iroquois)
British vs.
Colonists
Colonists
(disguised as
Mohawk Indians)
Patriots
(Minutemen 70Colonel James
Barrett, Colonel
John Buttrick, Dr.
Joseph Warren,
Captain John
Parker, & William
Heath) vs. British
(Lieutenant
General Hugh
Percy, Major
General John
Pitcairn, & Major
General Francis
Smith)
Patriots
(Minutemen 300Colonel James
Barrett, Colonel
John Buttrick, Dr.
Joseph Warren,
Captain John
Parker, & William
Heath) vs. British
(700 General
Thomas Gage,
Lieutenant
General Hugh
Percy, Major
General John
Pitcairn, & Major
General Francis
Smith)
Who won?
British, Colonists,
& Indians
(Iroquois)
British
Colonists
British
Patriots
1
Siege of Fort
Ticonderoga
May 10, 1775
Fort Ticonderoga,
New York
Battle of Chelsea
Creek
May 27, 1775
Suffolk County,
Massachusetts
Battle of Bunker
Hill (Breed’s Hill)
June 16, 1775
Charlestown,
Massachusetts
Battle of Montreal
November 13,
1775
Montreal, Canada
Battle of Quebec
December 31,
1775
Quebec City,
Province of
Quebec Canada
Battle of Three
Waters
June 8, 1776
Three Rivers,
Canada
Battle of Long
Island
August 27, 1776
Long Island, New
York
Patriots (Benedict
Arnold & Ethan
Allen with the
Green Mountain
Boys) vs. British
(Captain William
DeLaPlace)
Colonists (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (Generals
Samuel Graves &
Thomas Graves)
Patriots (1,200
MinutemenColonel William
Prescott) vs.
British (2,400
General William
Howe)
Patriots (Brigadier
Richard
Montgomery) vs.
British (The
Governor of
Canada, Guy
Carleton)
Patriots (Major
General Benedict
Arnold & Brigadier
Richard
Montgomery) vs.
British (The
Governor of
Canada, Guy
Carleton & Colonel
Allen Maclean)
Patriots (General
John Sullivan) vs.
British (General Sir
Guy Carleton)
Patriots (General
George
Washington, Israel
Putnam, William
Alexander) vs.
British (General
Ethan Allen & the
Green Mountain
Boys (Patriots)
Patriots
After 3 attempts
the British took
control of the hill.
Mixed Results
Patriots
British
British
British
2
Battle of Harlem
Heights
September 16,
1776
Manhattan, New
York
Battle of White
Plains
October 28, 1776
White Plains, New
York
Battle of Fort
Washington
November 16,
1776
Washington
Heights,
Manhattan, New
York
Battle of Trenton
December 26,
1776
Trenton, New
Jersey
Battle of Princeton
January 3, 1777
Princeton, New
Jersey
Battle of
Ticonderoga
July 6, 1777
Fort Ticonderoga,
New York
Battle of
Hubbardton
July 7, 1777
On a Road
Southeast of
Ticonderoga
Battle of Oriskany
August 6, 1777
Oriskany, New
Charles Cornwallis,
Sir Henry Clinton,
Sir William Howe)
& Germany
Hessians
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (General
William Howe)
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (General
William Howe)
Patriots (General
George
Washington &
Robert Magaw)
vs. British (Sir
William Howe &
Wilhem von
Knyphausen)
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (Johann
Rall) & Germany
Hessians
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (William
DeLaPlace &
Charles Mawhood)
Patriots (Major
General Arthur St.
Clair) vs. British
(General John
Burgoyne)
Patriots (Colonel
Francis Warner)
vs. British
(Brigadier Simon
Fraser) & Germans
(Baron Riedesel)
Patriots (Nicholas
Mixed
Patriots
British
Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
British
Patriots
3
York
Battle of
Bennington
August 16, 1777
Bennington, New
York
Battle of
Brandywine
September 11,
1777
Near Chadds Ford,
Pennsylvania
Battle of Saratoga
(Freeman’s Farm)
September 19,
1777
Saratoga County,
New York
Battle of Paoli
September 20,
1777
Paoli,
Pennsylvania
Battle of
Germantown
October 4, 1777
Germantown,
Pennsylvania
Battle of Saratoga
(Bemis Heights)
October 7, 1777
Saratoga County,
New York
Battle of
Monmouth
June 28, 1778
Monmouth, New
Jersey
Herkimer) vs.
British (Chief
Joseph Brant, John
Butler, & John
Johnson)
Patriots (Brigadier
John Stark) vs.
British (Friedrich
Baum) & Germans
(Breyman)
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (General
William Howe)
Patriots (General
Horatio Gates with
Brigadier Benedict
Arnold as his direct
subordinate) vs.
British (General
John Burgoyne)
Patriots (Major
General Anthony
Wayne) vs. British
(Major General
Charles Grey)
Patriots (General
George
Washington) vs.
British (General
William Howe)
Patriots (Major
General Horatio
Gates and
Brigadier Benedict
Arnold) vs. British
(Major General
John Burgoyne) &
Germans
Patriots (General
George
Washington and
Major General
Charles Lee) vs.
British (Lieutenant
General Sir Henry
Patriots
British
Patriots
British
British
Patriots
Patriots
4
Battle of Savannah
Siege of Charles
Town
Battle of Camden
Battle of King’s
Mountain
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Guilford
Courthouse
Battle of the
Virginia Capes
Battle of Eutaw
Springs
Clinton, Major
General Earl
Cornwallis and
Major General
Knyphausen)
December 29,
Savannah, Georgia Patriots (Robert
1778
Howe) vs. British
(Colonel Archibald
Campbell)
March 29, 1780
Charleston, South Patriots (Benjamin
Carolina
Lincoln) vs. British
(Admiral Mariot
Arbuthnot & Sir
Henry Clinton)
August 16, 1780
North of Camden, Patriots (Major
South Carolina
General Horatio
Gates) vs. British
(Major General
Lord Cornwallis)
October 7, 1780
Near Blackburn,
Patriots (Colonels
South Carolina and Shelby, Campbell,
King’s Mountain,
McDowell, Sevier,
North Carolina
Williams, Lacey,
Cleveland,
Hambright and
Winston) vs.
British (Major
Patrick Ferguson)
January 1, 1781
Cowpens, South
Patriots (Colonel
Carolina
Daniel Morgan)
vs. British
(Lieutenant
Colonel Banastre
Tarleton)
March 15, 1781
Guilford
Patriots (Major
Courthouse, North General Nathaniel
Carolina
Greene) vs. British
(Major Lord
Charles Cornwallis)
September 5, 1781 Off the coast of
French (Francois
Virginia and North Joseph Paul &
Carolina
Comete de Grasse)
vs. British (Admiral
Sir Thomas
Graves)
September 8, 1781 Near Present-day
Patriots (Nathaniel
Eutawville, South
Greene) vs. British
British
British
British
Patriots
Patriots
British
Patriots
Patriots
5
Carolina
Battle of Yorktown
October 9, 1781
Yorktown, Virginia
(Admiral Mariot
Arbuthnot &
Alexander
Stewart)
Patriots (General
Patriots
George
Washington) &
French (Lieutenant
General de
Rochambeau) vs.
British (Major
General Lord
Charles Cornwallis)
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