The American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783: Three Acts to Independence

1. The American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783: Three Acts to Independence Dr. Kyle F. Zelner Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi

2. The Greatest Military in the World: The British Army & Navy

3. The Colonial Military The Colonial Militia Minutemen

4. British Strategy, Phase #1: Police Action, 1774-1777 General Sir Thomas Gage, Commander in Chief of British Army and Military Governor of Massachusetts

5. Pre-War Problems, 1768-1774 Troops to Boston, 1768 Enforcing the Coercive Acts, including the Quartering Act, 1774 Boston Massacre, 1770

6. Battle of Lexington & Concord, 1775

7. Battle at Lexington Green

8. Concord: The Battle of North Bridge and British Retreat

9. Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775

11. The Continental Army is Established Washington meets his Officers at Cambridge, Mass.

12. Last Gasp of the Police Action Phase, 1776-1777: Two Invasions from Canada to Isolate New England, 1776

13. The Saratoga Campaign, 1777

14. Battle of Saratoga: The Commanders General John “Gentlemen Johnny” Burgoyne General Horatio Gates

15. The Real Hero of Saratoga: Benedict Arnold Memorial to Arnold’s Leg

16. The Surrender at Saratoga

17. The French Alliance Washington Welcomes the French Army and Navy to America

18. British Strategy, Phase #2: Classical Strategy, 1776-1781 CinC General William Howe

19. The Battle of New York, 1776 Trying to Destroy Washington’s Army

20. The Battle of Trenton, 1776: A Much Needed Morale Boost for America

21. Howe Takes the Capital City, Philadelphia, 1777 Fighting at Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown

22. The Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-1778 The Army Suffers Together

23. Baron Von Steuben Trains the Soldiers at Valley Forge: The Professionalization of the Continental Army

24. The Battle of Monmouth, 1778 The “New” Continental Army Proves Itself

25. British Strategy, Phase #3: Southern Pacification, 1780-1783 Loyalist Militia CinC General Sir Henry Clinton

26. The Invasion of South Carolina: 1780 Charlestown Falls and an American Army is Destroyed The Battle of Camden

27. Cornwallis Tries to Subdue the South, 1780-1781 General Sir Charles Cornwallis

28. Civil War: Patriot vs. Loyalist Patriot Militia Loyalist Militia & Indian

29. A Series of American Victories in the South: King’s Mountain, 1780 The Over-the-Mountain Men defeat the British Loyalists under Major Patrick Ferguson

30. A Series of American Victories in the South: The Battles of Cowpens, 1781 American Commander General Daniel Morgan Lt. Colonel Banastre Tarleton, Commander of the British “American Legion”

31. The Penultimate Battle: Guilford Courthouse, 1781 Generals Greene and Cornwallis Go Head-to-Head American Commander in the South, General Nathaniel Greene

32. Cornwallis Moves to Yorktown for Reinforcements The Deep-Water Port of Yorktown, Virginia

33. The Yorktown Siege, 1781 Washington and the French Commander in America, General Comte de Rochambeau Washington-Rochambeau Route from New York to Yorktown

34. The Battle of the Capes, 1781 The French Fleet Turns Back the British Fleet

35. The Siege and Assaults on Redoubts #9 and #10

36. The Surrender at Yorktown, October 19, 1781

37. The Peace of Paris, 1783 The American Peace Commissioners in Paris, the British Delegation Refused to Sit for the Painting