CH.6 REVOLUTIONARY WAR TIMELINE

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

• Battle in June 1775
• British won
• American Colonel william Prescott
• British general william Howe
• British took more losses

COMMON SENSE

• Published in January 1776
• Was made to change loyalists minds about the british

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Created by Thomas Jefferson
• Showed the colonists their right and the british wrongs
• And that they thought they needed independence
• Signed by many patriots
• July 2nd

BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND

• A big british General was Howe and a big American General was Washington
• August
• The british won
• The Americans retreated

BATTLE OF TRENTON

• Americans won
• Were sneaky
• Tricked Cornwallis by leaving they're campfires burning
• December 1776

BATTLE OF PRINCETON

• January 1777
• Washington surrounded the british when they attacked
• Americans won

BATTLE OF BENNINGTON

• August 1777
• Americans won

FORT STANWIX

• August 1777
• Americans won
• Was sieged by british

battles of brandywine and Germantown

• October 1777
• British won

BATTLE OF SARATOGA

• Americans won
• Convinced France to sign a treaty with America
• October 1777

FRANCE SIGNS TREATY

• February 1778
• France provided military aid

WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE

• Was very hard on American soldiers
• Was a harsh climate
• They were there for the winter of 1777-1778

BATTLE OF VICENNES

• February 1779
• Americans won

KINGS MOUNTAIN

• Americans won
• General Greene used his tactic to fight only when they were at an advantage
• 1780

BENEDICT ARNOLD TURNS TRAITOR

• In 1780 Benedict Arnold became a traitor to the Americans
• He thought he needed more recognition for his victories
• He needed money

BATTLE OF COWPENS

• Americans won
• General Morgan used his own tactics to defeat the british
• January 1781

GUILFORD COURTHOUSE

• March 1781
• Americans won

BATTLE OF YORKTOWN

• Ended the war
• General Cornwallis surrendered
• Americans sieged Yorktown
• October 1781

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