Timeline
Timeline: Revolutionary War Battles
A battle-focused chronology of the Revolutionary War, highlighting the outcome and strategic consequence of each major engagement.
9 events spanning 1775-1781
Battles of Lexington and Concord
British troops won the opening skirmishes tactically on the road out, but militia resistance turned the expedition into a strategic British failure and began open war.
View event pageBattle of Bunker Hill
The British took the field, but only after suffering punishing casualties that showed the cost of facing entrenched American forces.
View event pageBattle of Long Island
Britain won a major battlefield victory and drove Washington from New York, but the Continental Army escaped destruction and lived to fight on.
View event pageBattle of Princeton
Washington's victory over British forces restored morale after the New York disasters and revived patriot confidence in the northern theater.
View event pageBattle of Saratoga
The American victory trapped Burgoyne's campaign and helped persuade France that the United States was a viable military partner.
View event pageBattle of Camden
Cornwallis routed Gates's army and dealt the Americans a major defeat, forcing the patriot side to rebuild its southern command.
View event pageBattle of Cowpens
Daniel Morgan's decisive victory damaged British striking power in the South and fed the chain of events that led toward Yorktown.
View event pageBattle of Guilford Courthouse
Cornwallis held the field, but his losses were so severe that the fight weakened British capacity and pushed him toward the coast.
View event pageSiege of Yorktown
American and French forces trapped Cornwallis, forced his surrender, and secured the decisive allied victory that ended major fighting.
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