American Revolutionary War and British Troops
1. Lexington and Concord: The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen, and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord-Lexington Road. Paul Revere, on his famous ride, had first alerted the Americans to the British movement.
2. Boston/ Dorchester Heights: Located in South Boston. During the night of March 4, 1776, Washington's troops and local volunteers moved 59 heavy cannons into place on the Heights, wrapping the cannon wheels with straw to muffle the sound of movement, and working in darkness so as not to be noticed by British sentries. That was it. A few days later General Howe, the British garrison, and a thousand Loyalists evacuated the city and sailed for Nova Scotia. Not a shot was fired.
3. White Plain: British fighting against Americans during the American Revolutionary war on October 28, 1776. At the end of September 1776 Washington’s army occupied the northern tip of Manhattan Island and the ground to the West of the Bronx River north of Kingsbridge. Howe from his positions on the rest of Manhattan determined to outflank the Americans with a landing at Throg’s Neck to the East of the Bronx. This attack pushed the Americans back until the flanking threat from Rahl’s men caused the Americans to withdraw from the hill and retreat across the river to join Washington’s army. The British did not press this attack. In the meantime Howe had called for reinforcements from Brigadier Lord Percy in Manhattan in order to mount an attack on Washington’s main army which was withdrawing to a position to the rear. For some reason that remains unexplained this attack was not mounted and Washington and his army were left to pull back across the Crotton River.
4. Ticonderoga: Battle in
2. Boston/ Dorchester Heights: Located in South Boston. During the night of March 4, 1776, Washington's troops and local volunteers moved 59 heavy cannons into place on the Heights, wrapping the cannon wheels with straw to muffle the sound of movement, and working in darkness so as not to be noticed by British sentries. That was it. A few days later General Howe, the British garrison, and a thousand Loyalists evacuated the city and sailed for Nova Scotia. Not a shot was fired.
3. White Plain: British fighting against Americans during the American Revolutionary war on October 28, 1776. At the end of September 1776 Washington’s army occupied the northern tip of Manhattan Island and the ground to the West of the Bronx River north of Kingsbridge. Howe from his positions on the rest of Manhattan determined to outflank the Americans with a landing at Throg’s Neck to the East of the Bronx. This attack pushed the Americans back until the flanking threat from Rahl’s men caused the Americans to withdraw from the hill and retreat across the river to join Washington’s army. The British did not press this attack. In the meantime Howe had called for reinforcements from Brigadier Lord Percy in Manhattan in order to mount an attack on Washington’s main army which was withdrawing to a position to the rear. For some reason that remains unexplained this attack was not mounted and Washington and his army were left to pull back across the Crotton River.
4. Ticonderoga: Battle in