Revolutionary War battles
Independence conflict engagements
Military engagements fought between American colonial forces and the British during the American War of Independence (1775–1783).
The phrase typically refers to major confrontations like Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown: Students memorized the Revolutionary War battles for their history exam.
- BostonMassachusetts state capital
- crossing the DelawareSurprise winter river attack
- PhiladelphiaPennsylvania's largest metropolis
- Benedict ArnoldAmerican defector to Britain
- Valley Forge1777-78 military headquarters
George Washington · Yorktown · blood · smoke · Chesapeake Bay · bayonet · Charleston · Marquis de Lafayette · colonial militia · wound · New York City · Saratoga · British redcoats · fear · gunfire · charge · cannon fire · cannon
- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- Hudson ValleyHudson River, Hudson River School, Henry Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
- Pee Dee HistoryFlorence, Darlington
Revolutionary War battlesCivil War battles
Armed clashes, divided nation
civil wars · Battle of Gettysburg · Battle of Antietam · coups d'état
Revolutionary War battlespeace treaties
Formal agreements ending wars
Treaty of Paris · diplomatic negotiations · armistices · ceasefires · diplomatic summits
Revolutionary War battlespeace negotiations
Diplomatic talks ending conflict
treaties · armistices · nonviolent resistance · diplomatic summits · Treaty of Paris
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