Lexington/Concord • Massachusetts bay • April 19, 1775. • Colonel smith was the British and Paul Revere and William Dawes were the other side. • The Americans won • It kicked of the revelation. a. Fort Ticonderoga Vermont • May 10, 177 • Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold of Massachusetts and Garrison of the British. • British won • it was a moral boost Battle of Long Island • Brooklyn • August27, 1776 • General Washington and Charles Cornwallis • The British • The British had 20,000 troops and the Americans had around 10,000. Battle of White Plains • New York and New Jersey • October 28, 1776 • Gorge Washington, William Howe, and Wilhelm von Knyphausen. • The British won • General Washington was forced to retreat from a fight.
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America had dispatched the 2 envoy's. And the two men figured out that Great Britain and France had maintained
During the American Revolution, Patriot irregulars under Colonel William Campbell defeat Tories under Major Patrick Ferguson This takes place at King’s mountain south carolina. Major Ferguson’s Tory force is mostly made up of loyalists from south carolina. 1,000 american frontiersmen that demonstrated lethal marksmanship under Colonel Campbell of virginia.Pursued by patriots positioned his tory force on a rocky, treeless with unforgiving terrain named Kings Mountain. The patriots charged the hillside relentlessly
The Colonist shot first. The reading says “lay down your arms damned rebels or you all are dead men- FIRE!!! The British only fired some guns but not the first. The Colonist are the ones who fired first. They are also the ones who started this war. The text says “ that some guns were fired by the British at the
Continental and British sides of the war, all looking for a chance of freedom. In the beginning,
When the British first started the attack they assumed Loyalists would join them in the attack, but to their surprise not many joined in, leaving the battle to be fought by the Patriots, French, British, and Hessians. In October of 1779 an important attack from the Patriots failed, leading to a victory for the British.
The Patriots were the Americans that were against the British and vigorously supports their country. The Loyalists or Tories are the people who support the British king or the British government. The Green Mountain Boys had a major part in this war because they were the ones to defeat the British in this battle. The Hessians were the German troops hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution. They were from the German state of Hesse-Cassel. This wasn’t the first time that we have fought the Loyalists in battle there is countless more.
On a freezing cold day in Boston, 1770, John and Hugh, who were redcoats, were ordered to stand guard on King Street. Silence surrounded the soldiers on the street, nervousness and anxiousness crept towards them. They knew the Boston colonists and the Sons of Liberty, who were showing animosity towards King George for charging them unfair taxes. The colonists were all enraged because of what the king is doing. The Americans totally dislike the King's soldiers on American ground, therefore they have been harassing and infuriating them. The English soldiers had been invading the area and forcing Americans to let them live in their houses. Because America was angry at Britain, the two redcoat partners uneasily watched the avenue.
The Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord are two battles that happened on the exact same day, April 19, 1775. The Battle of Lexington was a small fight that started the Revolutionary War. Battle of Lexington was a military conflict between the 13 colonies and the Kingdom of Great Britain. It started with the military governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, who was aware of what the Colonists in the Province of Massachusetts Bay were doing. They were preparing for conflict and, were in possession of weapons and ammunition. On April 14, 1775, General Thomas Cage received orders to disarm the 'rebels' and arrest the leaders of the rebellion. The leaders were Samuel Adams and John Hancock who had been currently in Lexington. A
The French and British fight for their territory in Noth American, in 1757. Indians fight them too but some indians helped the British and other helped to French. The British Colonel Munro at Fort William Henry and the Frenchman Montcalm was near the Fort. Munro couldn’t fight to Montcalm because the Frenchman have more men then British that time. So Munro asked General Webb, in the north side of the country for help him.
During the 1770’s the Revolutionary War began and it was between the Patriots and Great Britain (Redcoats). Great Britain treated the Americans unfairly and the Americans has no representation. Although, it was undecided who shot the first shot at the battle of Lexington and Concord it is agreeable that Great Britain was at fault for starting the Revolutionary War.
England made any town meeting, except authorized by the governor illegal, and housed British soldiers in select public buildings. In Massachusetts the British military governor, General Gage, ordered his 3,500 British soldiers in Boston to seize armories and storehouses in Charlestown and Cambridge. After the seizure, 20,000 colonial militiamen mobilized to protect other military supply depots and in the town of Concord the famous defensive force, the Minutemen, were organized.2 With these acts Parliament declared that Massachusetts was in open rebellion. British Secretary of State, Lord Dartmouth, quickly ordered Gage to send his soldiers on a search and destroy mission to capture colonial leaders, and military supplies in Concord. “At the same time Gage would attempt to find, capture, or kill John Hancock and Samuel Adams.”3 The stage was set for the first major engagements of the American Revolution.
The war was fought between the British and The French, as I stated, but it wasn’t just them, local native americans helped the two colonists. “What tribes helped these two?” You might ask, well, the British colonists were helped by the Iroquois Indians, and The French were helped by the Hurons
was a threat to their authority and had to be stopped. I feel that John Winthrop
During the Seven Years’ War, William Pitt was enlisted to take over command of the British forces from the failing Earl of Londoun. Pitt realized the advantage of employing the help of the colonies to bolster the war effort for the British; to appeal to them, Pitt ensured the colonists they
The American Revolution was undeniably the most pivotal time period in respect to United States History, but who was really to blame for initiating the conflict? While both the British politicians and American colonists shared the blame for the kindling of the revolution, one party was certainly more at fault than the other: the British. Through short-term causes of taxation and incommodious trade acts, and long-term causes of salutary neglect and involvement in the burdensome French & Indian War, the British politicians proved to ultimately be the most responsible for igniting the Revolutionary War.