American Revolutionary War

The British soldiers were anything but loved by the American colonists in the 1770s. They maliciously planned an attack on the soldiers because of their hate. Many townspeople gathered together in effort to strike against the British presence. The men were just doing their job trying to keep order in Boston, but the people still taunted them. The soldiers were being tried for murder because they fired at the people, but those charges should not have existed. The crowd initially attacked the soldiers, not the other way around. It was also dark out so the soldiers did not know of the number of colonist attackers. The soldiers heard the word fire coming from the crowd, confusing the voices with Captain Preston’s. The incident referred to as the

General Washington and the Continental Army had been routed in the Battle of Long Island and withdrew to the defenses of Brooklyn Heights, which left them confined between Hessian and British troops and the East River. General Washington was able to keep the revolution alive by maintaining the Continental Army in the field.

Washington took away that fear when he launched the attack on Hessian troops. He followed up this victory by a win at Princeton. Next, he was forced to fight a battle that he knew he would lose. The British navy took over Philadelphia at the battle of Brandywine Creek. Washington’s militia was strengthened in October, when General Gates won at Saratoga, New York. In the spring of 1778, good news arrived when the French decided to send money, troops, and a fleet to help the colonies. When the British heard the news they decided to consolidate their position to New York and New Jersey. In the time period between 1778 and 1781 Washington kept the British army concealed to New York City. At the time he faced a variety of disappointments by losing the battles of Brooklyn Heights, Kip’s Bay, Harlem Heights, and White Plains.

The importance of this raid lay in the fact that they captured much-needed cannons and gunpowder.

On April 19th, 1775 British troops were marching to Lexington where many militia were already awaiting their arrival. The British were after the ammunition of the militia. Paul Revere had warned the militia ahead of time so that they could be prepared. They removed their stockpiles of ammunition from their hiding places and moved them to a new shelter. When the British arrived at Lexington, the militia were lined up, ready to defend themselves. The British stopped, prepared to face the militia. They

December 25-26, 1776 Washington's surprise attack against Hessian forces in Trenton, NJ. Washington crossed the Delaware river so that his army could attack an isolated gorrion of Hessian troops at trenton, New York.(“Crossing the Delaware”).

to burn the militas arms stache, but the milita beat them to it. When the British reach Concord almost all of the supplies had been hidden or relocated thanks to Paul Reveres efforts. As the British troops were searching and destroying milita supplies in Concord the American militia gathered just outside the town on a hilltop. After gathering several hundred men, the American milita began their slow march into concord. In order to regain entrance into the town of Concord the miltia had to cross the North brigde that was garded by three british companies. After firing a warning shot, the British fired a full scale volley into the American militia, after volleys were exchanged the British troops retreated to avoid a full scale battle. This will be one of the bloodiest retreats recorded in the revolutionary war. As word spread to the colonist about lexinton and concord, colonist came from all over to help in the effort to defened lexington and concord. As the british retreated back to Boston colonist hid along the road behind anything they could and fired on the british all the way back to boston. The British were so appauled by the actions of the colonist and deemed such actions as cowardly or unhonorable. Anyone who was caught inside there home on the road to boston and was suspected of firing on the british were killed and their houses were burned. It was the first american victory in the revolutionary war and a pivotal event

The men look to their leaders for guidance and motivation. The people of America looked up to George Washington because of his military knowledge and his keen and sneaky tactics. General George Washington learned that Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis' army was encamped near Yorktown, VA. After discussing options with his French ally, Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Ponton de Rochambeau, Washington decided to quietly move his army away from New York City with the goal of capturing and making a blockade around Cornwallis' force. General Cornwallis. The French and American men are to siege and contain the surrounding area until either death or surrender by the British.

The topic of revolution is extremely subjective. What may appear as an insurrection to some might not be as extreme to others. When talking about the American Revolutionary War, however, the answer is clear. While the War certainly brought about change within the United States, it wasn’t necessarily very revolutionary. The most important aspects of the colonies, such as ideas about government, various types of societal equality, slavery and freed blacks, and the rights of women remained for the most part, unaffected.

The Battle of New York would soon prove to be a disaster. It was Washington's first command on a large scale battle. He and his general officers had not only failed, but they looked like fools from the British point of view. After the battle, troops began to run away in fear. Even Washington's closest friend, Joseph Reed, began plotting behind his back. Washington suffered another bitter defeat at Fort Washington, N.Y. The colonists were intimidated, and surrendered Fort Washington. It was a severe blow to the colonists, 2000 were taken prisoner, 59 killed, 146 cannons lost to the British and Hessians in a matter of hours. It was a humiliating blow. During one particularly disastrous skirmish with the British, Washington saw his own troops fleeing from the enemy, and they were refusing to obey orders. Washington threw his hat on the ground in disgust. And

Leading up the battle of Yorktown, in February, 1781, Major General Marquis de Lafayette was ordered to take his Continental troops to Virginia. About a month later General Cornwallis and his army had entered Virginia believing that if the American forces had resistance, he would have victory against the Americans and the French. Later that year in August on 1-2, 1781 Cornwallis and his army set up at Gloucester point, hoping to use it as a base for supply and weapons. Couple of weeks later, Washington heard about the base and sent a large army to destroy Cornwallis base. A month later on September 14, 1781, French General Rochambeau and General Washington arrived, and sent 400 French soldiers and 400 American soldiers to storm the British redoubt. On October 19, 1781, being taken under heavy from the Americans and the French, Major General Cornwallis realized that he was short of troops and decided to escape Yorktown before surrendering. Making the move to escape, a sudden storm from the Americans and French ruined his evacuation plan and Cornwallis was forced to surrender, due to the lack troops and supplies.

General Washington decided to mount an attack before his Army scattered back to their homes. Under his command General Washington had 2,400 American troops and 18 guns, with infantry divisions under the command of Major General Nathanael Greene and Major General John Sullivan, as well as artillery under the command of Brigadier General Henry Knox. General Washington planned to launch three coordinated attacks. The plan was to have General John Cadwalader attack the British at Bordentown, New Jersey as a diversion and to block off reinforcements. Meanwhile, General James Ewing would take a force of 700 militia across the Delaware to capture the bridge over Assunpink Creek to prevent the British forces from escaping. George Washington would lead the main attack force of 2,400 troops. They would cross the Delaware nine miles north of Trenton and split into groups one under General Sullivan and another under General Greene. The plan was to attack before dawn. General Greene would attack from the north and General Sullivan would attack from the

British General Sir William Howe embarked on a campaign to capture the city of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War in 1777. While marching from Cooch’s Bridge to Kennett Square onward to Battle of Brandywine Howe and his army passed through Mill Creek Hundred. The army ransacked farms and took livestock and supplies. The house, approximately 100 yards to the east of this spot, served as Howe’s headquarters during an encampment along Limestone Road on September 8 and 9, 1777. Howe’s division commanders: Generals Cornwallis, Grant, and Knyphausen accompanied him during this

No other options are left for the American army, running from the British along side the Delaware River, fighting against deserters, disease, famine, and their major lack of artillery was no help to the cause. On the 25th of December in 1776, George Washington led his army across the Delaware River in New Jersey. In a desperate attempt to win a battle, and help motivate people to rejoin the revolution, Washington devised a plan to attack the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas night. He declared that it was victory or death, they were either going to win the battle, or they were going to die, but retreat was not an option.

Washington placed his troops along Brandywine Creek to guard most of the fords. Sir William Howe created a strategy to trick Washington, involving the movement of his troops to give the appearance of a British attempt