The American Revolution
First Phase of the Revolutionary War: The North
Minutemen at Lexington Green
Lexington and Concord, 1775
Boston, Charlestown,1775-76
Battle of Bunker Hill
http://www.ctssar.org/monthly_history/y1775june.htm
British troops were forced back twice by American guns
Fort Ticonderoga captured from the British by Ethan Allen/Green Mountain Boys, May 1775
FORT TICONDEROGA
After the war began a group of Americans organized an expedition to seize the fort. The group included Ethan Allen, leader of a group of Vermont soldiers called the Green Mountain Boys. On May 10, 1775 Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 83 men in an attack on Fort Ticonderoga. They surprised the unprepared British troops and seized the fort without firing a shot.
Fort Ticonderoga
http://www.nscds.pvt.k12.il.us/nscds/us/ushistory/second_continental.html
PPT Slide
The Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
Advantages And Disadvantages Of The British And The Colonists
British Advantages
British Disadvantages
Colonists Advantages
Colonists Disadvantages
HMS Victory, built in 1760s showed the power of the British Ships of the Line
Benedict Arnold
Loyalist
Patriots
British Capture NY, Sept. ‘76
Washington at Trenton, NJ, 1776
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Trenton
General Washington
US Victory at the Princeton, NJ
BATTLE OF PRINCETON NEW JERSEY
GEORGE WASHINGTON AT PRINCETON NEW JERSEY
John Paul Jones
Benjamin Franklin Served in Continental Congress Ambassador to France
Battle of Saratoga, 1777
General John Burgoyne
Battlefield at Brandy- wine
Brandywine
The Battle of Brandywine
Results of the battle
British Flank Attack
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Valley Forge
Washington’s Letter to Governor George Clinton
Washington at Valley Forge
Battle of Monmouth, NJ
Third Phase/Southern Campaigns
THE LOYALISTS
Nathanael Greene
General Nathanael Greene
http://members.aol.com/JonMaltbie/NatGreene.html
Francis Marion
Yorktown 1781
French General Rochambeau
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown Campaign
Cornwallis’ Surrender
George Rogers Clark
Treaty of Paris, 1783
THE TREATY OF PARIS
The Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Email: houston@harwich.edu
Other information: Slides produced by Mr. Houston's American History classes for local history project