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Rev. War Battles
YGK These Revolutionary War Battles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first battles of the American Revolutionary War (Names) | Lexington and Concord |
| The British regulars' objective at Lexington and Concord | To destroy colonial militia supplies |
| The name for the colonial militia who stopped the British at Lexington and Concord | Minutemen |
| The person who described the first shot as the “shot heard round the world” | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The fort captured by Americans on Lake Champlain | Fort Ticonderoga |
| The American leaders at the Battle of Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold |
| The name of Ethan Allen's forces | Green Mountain Boys |
| What the Americans did with the cannons captured at Ticonderoga | Transported them to Boston |
| The battle that was a British pyrrhic victory outside Boston | Bunker Hill |
| The outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill | British capture of the Charlestown Peninsula |
| The battle that proved colonial troops could stand up to British regulars | Bunker Hill |
| The hill where most of the fighting at "Bunker Hill" actually occurred | Breed’s Hill |
| The culmination of the failed American invasion of this country | Canada |
| The American general killed in a blinding snowstorm at Quebec | Richard Montgomery |
| The American general wounded at Quebec | Benedict Arnold |
| The American general captured at Quebec | Daniel Morgan |
| The largest battle of the entire Revolutionary War | Long Island (or Brooklyn Heights) |
| The outcome of the Battle of Long Island | British capture of New York |
| The British general who defeated George Washington at Long Island | William Howe |
| The time of day the Hessians were surprised at Trenton | Early morning |
| The commander of the Hessian forces at Trenton | Johann Rall |
| The outcome of the Battle of Trenton | About two-thirds of the Hessians were captured |
| Washington’s last major effort to retake this city before winter | Philadelphia |
| The place where Washington's troops wintered after the defeat at Germantown | Valley Forge |
| The major turning point of the American Revolution | Saratoga |
| The country that joined the war on the American side after Saratoga | France |
| The British general who led an invasion from Canada intending to split the colonies | John Burgoyne |
| The American general who led forces at Saratoga | Horatio Gates |
| The preceding battles that led to the final surrender at Saratoga | Freeman’s Farm and Bemis Heights |
| The last major battle of the Northern theater of the war | Monmouth |
| The American general who was court-martialed for his actions at Monmouth | Charles Lee |
| The woman who became famous for fighting in place of her husband at Monmouth | Molly Pitcher |
| The American defeat that was part of the British “southern strategy” | Camden |
| British General Charles Cornwallis inflicted a humiliating defeat on this American general at Camden | Horatio Gates |
| Other cities captured as part of the British “southern strategy” | Charleston and Savannah |
| A turning point in the American recapture of this state | South Carolina |
| The American commander at Cowpens | Daniel Morgan |
| The British commander at Cowpens | Banastre Tarleton |
| The battle that essentially ended the American Revolutionary War | Yorktown |
| The year the Treaty of Paris was signed (two years after Yorktown) | 1783 |
| The American general who surrounded Cornwallis's forces | George Washington |
| The French navy commander who assisted at Yorktown | Comte de Grasse |
| The person who presented Cornwallis’s sword of surrender | General Charles O’Hara |
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