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Revolution Battles
Battles of the Revolutionary War
Question | Answer |
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a 1776 battle in New Jersey in which George Washington’s troops captured Hessian troops in a surprise attack | Battle of Trenton |
in 1775, battles between Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the American Revolution | Battle of Lexington and Concord |
in 1777, the turning point of the American Revolution that revealed the failure of the British’s strategy and whose victory convinced France to enter the war | Battle of Saratoga |
in 1775, the bloodiest battle in the Revolution | Battle of Bunker Hill |
battle when the Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen led a surprise attack on the British, winning a large supply of weapons | Battle of Ticonderoga |
final battle in the Revolution; this 1781 American victory in Virginia forced the British to surrender | Battle of Yorktown |
British victory that made Patriots question their hope of winning the war | Battle of Charleston |
where the Battle of Bunker Hill was really fought | Breed’s Hill |
soldiers from Germany who were hired by England to fight | Hessians |
This man took the war to England where he raided the coast, resulting in an American victory. | John Paul Jones |
the battle that showed Benedict Arnold had turned into a traitor | Camden |
the British general who was leading the troops at the time of surrender in Yorktown, VA | Cornwallis |
the name of the peace treaty which ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris |
the name of the American spy who got information for the Americans from the British | Nathan Hale |