| A | B |
|---|
| Lexington | first shots of the war were fired here |
| Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured this fort |
| Bunker Hill | British charge up hill three times and win but with heavy casualties |
| Yorktown | when the US won this battle in 1781, The British considered the war lost |
| Saratoga | The French allied with the US after victory in this campaign |
| Fort Moultrie | US saved Charlseston with this half finished fort of palmetto logs and sand |
| Princeton | Alexander Hamilton's artillery beheaded a portrait of King George II on this college campus |
| King's Mountain | overmountain men defeat Patrick Ferguson in North Carolina |
| Guilford Courthouse | Cornwallis fires grape into a melee with his own guard troops to prevent a US breakthrough |
| Germantown | Americans blunder by attacking the Chew House instead of bypassing it |
| Trenton | Washingotn secretly corsses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians on Christmas night |
| Cowpens | Daniel Morgan finally figures out how to use Patriot militia forces and defeats Tarleton |
| Flamborough Head | John Paul Jones captures the HMS Serapis |
| Bennington | Hessians looking for horses were almost destroyed by John Stark |
| Paoli | British troops remove their flints and rely on the bayonets |
| Moore's Creek Bridge | Patriot militia remove planks from this bridge and defeat the Highlander loyalists |
| Quebec | US attempt to conquer Canada fails, Montgomery killed |
| Nassau, Bahamas | US Marine Corps captures its first city 1776 |
| Brandywine Creek | Howe flanks Washington along this creek outside Philadelphia |
| Monmouth Courthouse | Molly Pitcher fought here on a very hot day |
| Clinton-Sullivan Campaign | US forces destroy Iroquois power forever |
| Vincennes | George Rogers Clark captures this Indiana town twice |
| Charleston | Benjamin Lincoln is besieged and loses the southern army at this city |
| Camden | Horatio Gates places militia on his left flank and has his army destroyed |
| Waxhaws | Banastre Tarleton accused of taking no prisoners at this battle |
| Blue Licks | Kentucky militia ambushed by Simon Girty and Native Americans 1782 |
