| 1775 |
April 19 | Battles of Lexington & Concord |
| May 10 | Allen & Arnold capture Ft. Ticonderoga |
| June 17 | British take Breeds (Bunker) Hill |
| July 3 | George Washington takes command |
| Nov. 13 | Montgomery occupies Montreal |
| Dec. 9 | Skirmish at Great Bridge, Virginia |
| Dec. 31 | Americans lose attack on Quebec |
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| 1776 |
Mar. 17 | British evacuate Boston |
| June 21 | Siege of Charleston, South Carolina |
| June 28 | Sullivan's Island repels invasion |
| July 4 | Declaration of Independence |
| Aug. 27 | Continentals defeated at Long Island |
| Sept. 16 | Battle of Harlem Heights, New York |
| Oct. 28 | Battle of White Plains, New York |
| Nov. 16 | British capture Fort Washington |
| Nov. 20 | Fort Lee abandoned to British |
| Dec. 26 | Washington's victory at Trenton |
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| 1777 |
Jan. 3 | Battle of Princeton |
| July 5 | Continental Army evacuates Ticonderoga |
| Aug. 6 | Battle of Oriskany, New York |
| Aug. 16 | Germans defeated at Bennington |
| Sept. 11 | Washington's Army is routed at Brandywine, Pennsylvania |
| Sept. 19 | Burgoyne defeated at Freeman's Farm, New York |
| Sept. 21 | British surprise Continentals in a night attack near Paoli Tavern |
| Sept. 26 | General Howe seizes Philadelphia |
| Oct. 4 | Washington defeated at Germantown |
| Oct. 7 | Burgoyne's advance stopped at Bemis Heights |
| Oct. 17 | Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga |
| Nov. 8 | British evacuate Ticonderoga |
| Nov. 15 | Continentals evacuate Fort Mifflin |
| Dec. 19 | Washington encamps at Valley Forge |
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| 1778 |
Feb. 6 | France joins the war effort by signing treaty of American alliance |
| June 28 | Battle of Monmouth |
| July 4 | George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia |
| Aug. 29 | Battle of Rhode Island |
| Nov. 3 | British transfer 5,000 troops to West Indies to protect interests there |
| Dec. 29 | British occupy Savanna, Georgia |
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| 1779 |
Feb. 24 | George Rogers Clark recaptures Vincennes |
| May 8 | Spain enters the war on the side of America |
| July 15 | Continentals take Stony Point |
| Oct. 9 | French and Americans stopped at Savanna |
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| 1780 | May 12 | Charleston, South Carolina finally taken after long siege |
| July 11 | French troops arrive in Newport, Rhode Island |
| Aug. 16 | Americans defeated at Camden, South Carolina |
| Sept. 25 | Benedict Arnold defects to the British |
| Oct. 7 | British defeated at Kings Mountain |
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| 1781 | Jan. 1 | The Pennsylvania line mutinies |
| Jan. 17 | Daniel Morgan defeats the British at Cowpens |
| Mar. 15 | Battle of Guilford Courthouse |
| April 25 | Greene pushed back at Hobkirk's Hill |
| July 29 | Loyalist victory at Deep River, North Carolina |
| Sept. 5 | French fleet takes Chesapeake Bay |
| Sept. .8 | British hold Eutaw Springs, S. Carolina |
| Sept. 26 | Siege of Yorktown begins |
| Oct .19 | Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown |
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| 1782 |
June 4 | Crawford defeated at Sandusky |
| July 11 | Savannah evacuated by British |
| Aug. 19 | Americans defeated at Blue Licks |
| Nov. 30 | Preliminary peace treaty signed in Paris |
| Dec. 14 | British evacuate Charleston |
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| 1783 | April 3 | Loyalists and militia battle at Tuckertown, NJ |
| April 19 | Congress declares end of hostilities |
| Sept. 3 | Final peace treaty signed in Paris |
| Nov. 25 | British evacuate New York |
| Dec. 23 | George Washington retires from command |
