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September 28-October 19, 1781: Virginia: Franco-American victory: Cornwallis surrenders his entire force of over 7,000; escape blocked by the French navy. Last major land battle of the war. Battle of Fort Slongo: October 3, 1781: New York: American victory Battle of Raft Swamp: October 15, 1781: North Carolina: American victory Battle of ...
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted
Brown and the East Florida Rangers retreated from Augusta following the British defeat at the Battle of Kettle Creek in February 1779. [2] Brown and his militia unit, renamed the King's Carolina Rangers retook Augusta on June 8, 1780. [2] On 14 September 1780 Elijah Clarke and Patriot forces launched a surprise assault on British held Augusta. [3]
September 8 – American Revolution – Battle of Eutaw Springs; September 10 – American Revolution: Graves gives up trying to break through the now-reinforced French fleet and returns to New York, leaving Cornwallis to his fate. September 28 – American Revolution: American and French troops begin a siege of the British at Yorktown, Virginia.
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was an armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
Brodhead's Coshocton expedition (April 1781) Lochry's Defeat (August 24, 1781) Long Run massacre (September 13, 1781 – September 14, 1781) Gnadenhutten massacre (March 8, 1782) Battle of Little Mountain (March 22, 1782) Crawford expedition (May 25, 1782 – June 12, 1782) Siege of Bryan Station (August 15, 1782 – August 17, 1782)
O'Donnell, James H. Southern Indians in the American Revolution. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973. ISBN 0-87049-131-8. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (2014). Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution ...
The siege of Ninety Six was a siege in western South Carolina late in the American Revolutionary War. From May 22 to June 18, 1781, Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene led 1,000 troops in a siege against the 550 Loyalists in the fortified village of Ninety Six, South Carolina. The 28-day siege centered on an earthen fortification ...