1. An Overview of… The American Revolution
Notable Battles and People

2. Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
Key Names, Places, and Terms:
Revere and Dawes
British General Thomas Gage
“Minutemen” at Lexington
“Shot heard ‘round the world”
The “Old North Bridge”

8. Total British Casualties: --73 Killed!! --174 Injured --26 missing
Roughly 240 British Regulars arrived in Lexington
70-80 Minutemen stood on the Lexington Green
8 Colonists were killed in Lexington
Estimated 400 Militiamen arrive in Concord
Roughly 1700(!) British Regulars meet back in Lexington and retreat under heavy fire back to Boston
Total British Casualties:
--73 Killed!!
--174 Injured
--26 missing

9. “The Lexington Minuteman”

10. Fort Ticonderoga, May 1775 Key Names, Places, and Terms:
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys (VT)
Benedict Arnold
Cannons and Supplies: used to evacuate British from Boston the following year
June 1777 British retake it

11. Lake Champlain
Fort Ticonderoga

14. 48 British Troops

15. Bunker (Breed’s) Hill, June 17, 1775
Key Names, Places, and Terms:
British General William Howe
Colonel William Prescott
Dr. Joseph Warren
"Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
2300 British Soldiers, over 200 killed and more than 800 severely wounded (many officers!)
Morale Booster

23. Notable Events and Dates…..
July 1775: Washington arrives in Mass. and takes command of the Continental Army
March 1776: British evacuate Boston (Back to the map: Dorchester Heights)
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence
August 1776: British invade NYC, GW retreats south into New Jersey/Penn.

24. GW Crosses the Delaware River: Dec 25, 1776
Key Names, Places, and Terms:
Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey
Hessians
Small victories but huge morale boosters

28. The Battle of Saratoga: Sept-Oct. 1777
Key Names, Places, and Terms:
TWO Battles – Battle of Freeman’s Farm
Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold
British General John Burgoyne
“Turning Point” of the war

29. Benedict Arnold

31. Horatio Gates

34. Naval Battles Key Names, Places, and Terms: “The Turtle”
John Paul Jones
“Bonhomme Richard”

35. Ezra Lee