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Events leading up
to the War
The French
and Indian War (1754-63)
The Sugar Act (4/5/1764)
The Stamp Act (3/22/1765)
The Stamp Act Congress (10/7-25/1765)
The Boston Massacre (3/5/1770)
The Boston Tea Party (12/16/1773)
The First Continental Congress (Philadelphia, 9/5-10/26/1774)
1775: The War
Begins
The Rides of
Paul Revere and William Dawes (4/18)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord (4/19)
The Second Continental Congress (met in Philadelphia, 5/10)
Washington named Commander in Chief (6/15)
Battle of Bunker Hill (fought on Breed's Hill) (6/17)
Montgomery captures Montreal for Americans (11/13)
Benedict Arnold's failed attack on Quebec (12/30)
1776: The Year of
Independence
Paine's
"Common Sense" published (1/15)
The British evacuate Boston (3/17)
Richard Henry Lee proposes Independence (6/7)
Declaration of Independence adopted (7/4)
British occupy New York City (9/15)
British win every skirmish (Aug-Dec)
Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton (12/26)
1777: The War for
the North
Washington
wins the Battle of Princeton (1/3)
Flag Resolution (flag possibly designed by Hopkinson, likely sewn by Betsy
Ross) (6/14)
Colonists use militia to harass British (summer)
British under Howe occupy Philadelphia (9/26)
Burgoyne surrenders to General Gates at Saratoga, NY (10/17)
The Winter at Valley Forge, PA (12/19/77-6/19/78)
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1778-9: French
Alliance & the War Spreads
The French
Alliance (2/6/78)
George Rogers Clark captured Kaskaskia, a French village near Detroit
(7/4/78)
George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes on the Wabash (2/25)
John Paul Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard, captures British
man-of-war Serapis near English coast (9/23)
American attempt to recapture Savannah, GA fails (10/9)
Coldest Winter of the war, Washington at Morristown, NJ
1780: The
Campaign for the South
British
capture Charleston, SC (5/12)
British defeat Americans in most battles throughout south (Jun-Nov)
Benedict Arnold's plans to cede West Point to the British discovered (9/25)
Washington names Nathanael Greene commander of the Southern Army (10/14)
1781: All But
Done
Mutiny of
unpaid Pennsylvania soldiers (1/1)
Patriot Morgan overwhelmingly defeated British Col. Tarleton at Cowpens, SC
(1/17)
Articles of Confederation adopted (3/2)
French fleet drove British naval force from Chesapeake Bay (9/15)
Cornwallis surrounded on land and sea by Americans and French and surrenders
at Yorktown, VA (10/19)
1782 and Beyond
Lord North resigned as British
Prime Minister (3/20/82)
British evacuate Savannah, GA (7/11/82)
British sign Articles of Peace (11/30/82)
Treaty of Paris (9/3/83)
British troops leave New York (11/25/83)
Washington Resigns as Commander (12/23/83)
U.S. Constitution ratified (9/17/87) |