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| American victory in a cow-grazing area in South Carolina won by Dan Morgan and his sharp-shooting riflemen |
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| British victory that led to the British occupation of Philadelphia |
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| Place where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired |
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| Bloody battle in North Carolina in which there was no clear winner |
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| American victory that was the turning point of the Revolution |
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| Longest and hottest battle of the Revolution; the last major battle in the North |
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| Unsuccessful American attempt at an invasion of Canada |
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| White Plains/ Brooklyn/ Harlem/ Manhattan |
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| British victory that forced Washington's army to retreat into New Jersey |
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| British victory in the South that led to the departure of General Gates |
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| Technically a British victory but became a rallying point for American resistance early in the Revolution |
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| American victory over drunken Hessian soldiers on Christmas Day 1776 |
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| Last major battle of the Revolution |
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| Second consecutive American victory that encouraged the French to release supplies to the American war effort and boosted sagging American morale |
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| American victory in which a primarily Loyalist force was surrounded and captured just inside the South Carolina border |
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| American capture of a British stockpile of artillery, which forestalled a planned British invasion of Canada |
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| American defeat that represented the greatest loss of manpower and equipment of the Revolution for the Patriots |
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