Battles of the American Revolution Questions and Answers Latest 2023

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Battles of the American Revolution Questions and Answers Latest 2023 Battles of Lexington and Concord April 1775 ✔✔First battles of the Revolutionary War, fought outside of Boston. The colonial... militia successfully defended their stores of munitions, forcing the British to retreat to Boston. Battles of Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point May 1775 ✔✔Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold took a large amount of the Brits weapons, Ethan Allen lead the Green Mountain Boys here and the British commander surrendered Ticonderoga., Battle of Bunker Hill June 1775 ✔✔This Revolutionary War battle took place shortly after Lexington and Concord. It was the first major battle of the war. Although the British gained their objective, they paid dearly in lives lost and colonists only had to retreat because they ran low on gunpowder. This battle proved that the American rebels would put up a fierce resistance to Britain. Invasion of Canada ✔✔U.S. General Richard Montgomery forced the British to evacuate Montreal in 1775 and invade Canada. A second force led by Benedict Arnold invaded the land by combining an attack on Quebec; however, it was a failure and Montgomery was killed, Benedict was shot, and one-third of the colonial troops were killed or captured. Evacuation Day March 1776 ✔✔British forced to evacuate Boston. Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge February 1776 ✔✔Southern victory for the colonists in North Carolina. Battle of Charleston Harbor June 1776 ✔✔Colonial victory against invading British naval fleet. Battle of Long Island summer and fall 1776 ✔✔American defeat but Washington managed to escape with his troops across the Hudson and Delaware Rivers. Thousands of Americans taken prisoner and placed on prison ships where they were tortured, starved and many died. Battle of Trenton December 26, 1776 ✔✔American victory that saw Washington and his troops surprise the Hessian troops after crossing the Delaware overnight. Battle of Princeton January 1777 ✔✔American victory after Washington recrossed the Delaware River and defeated British troops in Princeton. Arnold's Naval Battle 1776 ✔✔Despite being counted as an American defeat, this American general (and future traitor) was able to gain valuable time for the American troops as the British were forced to return to Canada for the winter. British General Burgoyne's invasion the following spring would most certainly have resulted in victory instead of his defeat at Saratoga. British Strategy New England ✔✔The plan was for the British to divide New England from the rest of the colonies and paralyze the American cause. The main British force, under General John Burgoyne would push down the Lake Champlain route from Canada. British General Howe was to move his troops up from New York and meet with Burgoyne at Albany. British troops under the command of Colonel Barry St.Leger would come in from the west by way of Lake Ontario and the Mohawk Valley. General Howe's actions 1777 ✔✔Instead of moving up the Hudson River to meet Burgoyne, he decided to take his troops to Philadelphia in an attempt to destroy Washington's army. After defeating Washington at Brandywine and Germantown, he settled into Philadelphia for the winter leaving Burgoyne on his own in the wilderness. Valley Forge Winter 1777-1778 ✔✔Washington's troops winter here where they suffer hunger, lack of supplies, a small pox epidemic, but gain valuable training from a Prussian military officer - Fredrich von Steuben. Battle of Saratoga October 1777 ✔✔Turning point in the war. Gen. Horatio Gates (American) defeated Gen. Burgoyne (British). One of the most decisive battles in American and world history because it convinced the French to join with the Americans to defeat the British. British Strategy 1778 ✔✔Because of the threat of the French fleet in North American waters, they evacuated Philadelphia and concentrated their forces in New York City. Battle of Monmouth June 1778 ✔✔Indecisive engagement that resulted in the British escaping to New York with about 1/3 of the Hessians deserting and Washington remaining in New York to keep the British hemmed in there until the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. British Southern Strategy beginning 1778 ✔✔to roll up the colonies, beginning in the South where the numbers of Loyalists who could be counted on to help was larger. Battle of Charleston, S.C. 1780 ✔✔American defeat that resulted in the heaviest losses of the entire war - 5,000 men and 400 cannon captured by the British. Battles of King's Mountain and Cowpens 1780-1781 ✔✔American riflemen, using guerrilla warfare tactics, wiped out British forces using General Nathaniel Greene's strategy of delay - standing and retreating repeatedly to exhaust British under General Cornwallis. By losing battles but winning campaigns, Greene had managed to clear most British troops out of Georgia and South Carolina. "bloody year" 1777 ✔✔Indian allies of the British were attacking up and down the western frontier - killing, burning, scalping. Senecas, Mohawks, Cayugas, and Onondagas joined the British urged on by Mohawk chief Joseph Brant in the belief that if the British won, they would restrain the Americans from taking Indian lands. George Rogers Clark's Frontier Campaign 1778-17779 ✔✔175 Americans take 3 British forts along the Ohio River. The victory resulted in the British giving up their land north of the Ohio River in the peace agreement that ended the war. Battle of Yorktown 1781 ✔✔Due to a combination of American spying, French planning and the joint efforts of the American and French armies, and the French navy, British forces under General Cornwallis are surrounded at Yorktown where he was ordered to withdraw to so that he could leave my ship to join the British forces in New "York for an attack by Washington's army. The French navy had defeated the British fleet at sea so Cornwallis had no escape route and was forced to surrender. This was the last major battle of the war but the war would drag on for another two years. [Show More]

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