List of American Revolutionary War battles

American Revolutionary War Boston Canada New York and New Jersey Saratoga Philadelphia Western Northern Southern Yorktown West Indies and Gulf Coast Naval

This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties.

Contents 1 Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war 2 Battles (in chronological order) 2.1 1774 2.2 1775 2.3 1776 2.4 1777 2.5 1778 2.6 1779 2.7 1780 2.8 1781 2.9 1782 2.10 1783

Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war

• Boston campaign (1774–76)
• Invasion of Canada (1775–76)
• New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–77)
• Saratoga campaign (1777)
• Philadelphia campaign (1777–78)
• Yorktown campaign (1781)
• Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–81)
• West Indies and Gulf Coast campaigns (1779–82)
• Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
• Western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1779–82)
• Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War

Battles (in chronological order)

1774

Boston campaign 1774–76 Powder Alarm Lexington and Concord Siege of Boston Chelsea Creek Bunker Hill Knox artillery train Dorchester Heights

• Powder Alarm – September 1, 1774*

1775

Canadian campaign Ticonderoga Fort St. Jean Longue-Pointe Arnold's expedition Quebec Saint-Pierre The Cedars Trois-Rivières Valcour Bay

Southern theater 1775–79 Gunpowder Incident Kemp's Landing Snow Campaign Savage's Old Fields Great Bridge Norfolk Moore's Creek Bridge Rice Boats Sullivan's Island Lindley's Fort Thomas Creek Frederica Alligator Bridge 1st Savannah Beaufort Kettle Creek Brier Creek Stono Ferry 2nd Savannah

• Battles of Lexington and Concord – April 19, 1775
• Siege of Boston – April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776
• Gunpowder Incident – April 20, 1775*
• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga – May 10, 1775*
• Battle of Chelsea Creek – May 27–28, 1775
• Battle of Machias – June 11–12, 1775
• Battle of Bunker Hill – June 17, 1775 (also known as the Battle of Breed's Hill)
• Battle of Gloucester, MA – August 8, 1775
• Shelling of Stonington – August 30, 1775
• Siege of Fort St. Jean – September 17 – November 3, 1775 (also called St. John's)
• Burning of Falmouth – October 18, 1775*
• Battle of Kemp's Landing – November 14, 1775
• Battle of Great Bridge – December 9, 1775
• Siege of Savage's Old Fields – November 19–21, 1775 (also called the Siege of Ninety-Six)
• Snow Campaign - December 23, 1775
• Battle of Quebec – December 31, 1775

1776

New York and New Jersey 1776–1777 Long Island (Order of battle) The Turtle Staten Island Peace Conference Kip's Bay Harlem Heights Pell's Point White Plains Fort Washington Geary Ambush Iron Works Hill Delaware crossing Trenton (Order of battle) Assunpink Creek Princeton Forage War Millstone

Northern coastal theater 1st Machias Gloucester Falmouth Block Island Fort Cumberland Ridgefield Sag Harbor St. John River 2nd Machias Setauket Mount Hope Bay Newport Grey's raid Chestnut Neck Little Egg Harbor Tryon's raid Penobscot Expedition Fort St. George Cape Breton Groton Heights Fort Slongo Halifax Lunenburg

• Burning of Norfolk – January 1, 1776
• Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge – February 27, 1776
• Battle of the Rice Boats – March 2–3, 1776
• Battle of Nassau – March 3–4, 1776
• Fortification of Dorchester Heights – March 4, 1776*
• Battle of Saint-Pierre – March 25, 1776
• Battle of Block Island – April 6, 1776
• Battle of The Cedars – May 18–27, 1776
• Battle of Trois-Rivières – June 8, 1776
• Battle of Sullivan's Island – June 28, 1776
• Battle of Lindley's Fort – July 15, 1776
• Battle of Long Island – August 27, 1776 (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn)
• Landing at Kip's Bay – September 15, 1776
• Battle of Harlem Heights – September 16, 1776
• Battle of Valcour Island – October 11, 1776 (naval battle)
• Battle of White Plains – October 28, 1776
• Battle of Fort Cumberland – November 10–29, 1776
• Battle of Fort Washington – November 16, 1776
• Ambush of Geary – December 14, 1776
• Battle of Iron Works Hill – December 22–23, 1776 (also known as the Battle of Mount Holly)
• Battle of Trenton – December 26, 1776

1777

Saratoga campaign 1777 Fort Ticonderoga Hubbardton Fort Anne Slaying of Jane McCrea Fort Stanwix Oriskany Bennington 1st Saratoga (Freeman's Farm) Forts Clinton and Montgomery 2nd Saratoga (Bemis Heights)

Philadelphia campaign 1777–1778 Bound Brook Short Hills Staten Island Cooch's Bridge Brandywine Clouds Paoli Germantown Red Bank Fort Mifflin Gloucester White Marsh Matson's Ford Valley Forge Conway Cabal Quinton's Bridge Crooked Billet Barren Hill Carlisle Peace Commission Monmouth

• Second Battle of Trenton – January 2, 1777
• Battle of Princeton – January 3, 1777
• Battle of Millstone – January 20, 1777
• Forage War – Winter 1777
• Battle of Bound Brook – April 13, 1777
• Battle of Ridgefield – April 27, 1777 (also known as the Danbury Raid)
• Battle of Thomas Creek – May 17, 1777
• Meigs Raid – May 24, 1777 (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor)
• Battle of Short Hills – June 26, 1777 (also known as the Battle of Metuchen Meetinghouse)
• Siege of Fort Ticonderoga – July 5 – 6, 1777
• Battle of Hubbardton – July 7, 1777
• Battle of Fort Ann – July 8, 1777
• Siege of Fort Stanwix – August 2 – 23, 1777
• Battle of Oriskany – August 6, 1777
• Second Battle of Machias – August 13 – 14, 1777
• Battle of Bennington – August 16, 1777
• Battle of Staten Island – August 22, 1777
• Battle of Setauket – August 22, 1777
• First Siege of Fort Henry – September, 1777
• Battle of Cooch's Bridge – September 3, 1777
• Battle of Brandywine – September 11, 1777
• Battle of the Clouds – September 16, 1777
• Battle of Saratoga I – September 19, 1777 (also known as the Battle of Freeman's Farm)
• Battle of Paoli – September 21, 1777
• Siege of Fort Mifflin – September 26 – November 15, 1777
• Battle of Germantown – October 4, 1777
• Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery – October 6, 1777
• Battle of Saratoga II – October 7, 1777 (also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights)
• Battle of Red Bank – October 22, 1777 (also known as the Battle of Fort Mercer)
• Battle of Gloucester, NJ – November 25, 1777
• Battle of White Marsh – December 5–8, 1777
• Battle of Matson's Ford – December 11, 1777

1778

Northern frontier after 1777 Cobleskill Wyoming Valley Big Runaway German Flatts Carleton's Raid Cherry Valley Minisink Sullivan Expedition Newtown Boyd and Parker Royalton Raid Klock's Field Johnstown

New York City area after 1777 Baylor Massacre Stony Point Paulus Hook Young's House Connecticut Farms (NJ) Springfield Bull's Ferry

Southern theater 1780–81 Charleston Moncks Corner Lenud's Ferry Waxhaws Mobley's Meeting House Ramsour's Mill Huck's Defeat Colson's Mill Rocky Mount Hanging Rock Camden Fishing Creek Musgrove Mill Wahab's Plantation Black Mingo Charlotte Kings Mountain Fishdam Ford Blackstock's Farm Cowpens Cowan's Ford Pyle's Massacre Wetzell's Mill Guilford Court House Fort Watson Hobkirk's Hill Fort Motte Augusta Ninety-Six Eutaw Springs Lindley's Mill Combahee River

Western theater 1st Fort Henry Boonesborough Kaskaskia & Vincennes Fort Pitt treaty Fort Laurens Chillicothe St. Louis Bird's expedition La Balme's Defeat Piqua Coshocton Lochry's Defeat Long Run Gnadenhütten Little Mountain Crawford expedition Bryan Station Blue Licks 2nd Fort Henry

Gulf Coast campaigns Fort Bute Lake Pontchartrain Baton Rouge Río Hondo Cayo Cocina Río Chevun San Fernando Fort Charlotte Fort San Juan Mobile Pensacola Roatán Black River

American Revolutionary War: North American Waters 1st Machias Gloucester Falmouth Block Island 2nd Machias Newport Grey's raid Chesapeake raid Tryon's raid Penobscot Cape Henry Cape Breton Capture of USS Trumbull 1st Chesapeake Bay Capture of HMS Savage Delaware Bay Halifax Lunenburg Hudson Bay 2nd Chesapeake Bay

European waters 1775–1782 North Channel 1st Ushant English Channel 1st Jersey 14 September 1779‎ Flamborough Head 11 November 1779 8 January 1780 Cape St. Vincent Cape Santa Maria 2nd Jersey Minorca 1 May 1781 30 May 1781 Dogger Bank 2nd Ushant 16 March 1782 20 April 1782 Gibraltar Cape Spartel 12 December 1782

American Revolutionary War West Indies theatre 1st Nassau Barbados Dominica 1st St. Lucia 2nd St. Lucia Saint Vincent 1st Grenada 2nd Grenada 1st Martinique 2nd Martinique Dutch West Indies Sint Eustatius Fort Royal Tobago Brimstone Hill Frigate Bay Demerara and Essequibo Montserrat The Saintes Mona Passage 2nd Nassau 18 October 1782 6 December 1782 Turks and Caicos 3rd Nassau

East Indies theater of the American Revolutionary War Pondicherry Porto Praya 1st Negapatam 1st Trincomalee Sadras Providien 2nd Negapatam 2nd Trincomalee 1st Cuddalore 2nd Cuddalore

• Battle off Barbados – March 7, 1778
• Battle of Quinton's Bridge – March 18, 1778
• North Channel Naval Duel – April 24, 1778
• Battle of Crooked Billet – May 1, 1778
• Battle of Barren Hill – May 20, 1778
• Mount Hope Bay raids – May 25 and 30, 1778
• Battle of Monmouth – June 28, 1778
• Battle of Alligator Bridge – June 30, 1778
• Wyoming Massacre – July 3, 1778
• First Battle of Ushant – July 27, 1778
• Siege of Pondicherry – August 21 – October 19, 1778
• Battle of Rhode Island – August 29, 1778 (also known as Battle of Newport or Quaker Hill)
• Grey's raid – September 5–17, 1778
• Invasion of Dominica – September 7, 1778
• Siege of Boonesborough – September 7–18, 1778
• Baylor Massacre – September 27, 1778
• Battle of Chestnut Neck – October 6, 1778
• Little Egg Harbor massacre – October 16, 1778
• Carleton's Raid – October 24 – November 14, 1778
• Cherry Valley Massacre – November 11, 1778
• Battle of St. Lucia – December 15, 1778 (naval battle)
• Capture of St. Lucia – December 18–28, 1778
• Capture of Savannah – December 29, 1778

1779

• Battle of Beaufort – February 3, 1779 (also known as the Battle of Port Royal Island)
• Battle of Kettle Creek – February 14, 1779
• Battle of Vincennes – February 23–25, 1779
• Battle of Brier Creek – March 3, 1779
• Battle of Chillicothe – May, 1779
• Chesapeake raid – May 10–24, 1779
• Armada of 1779 – June – September, 1779
• Capture of Saint Vincent – June 16–18, 1779
• Battle of Stono Ferry – June 20, 1779
• Great Siege of Gibraltar – June 24, 1779 – February 7, 1783
• Capture of Grenada – July 2, 1779
• Tryon's raid – July 5–14, 1779
• Battle of Grenada – July 6, 1779
• Battle of Stony Point – July 16, 1779
• Penobscot Expedition – July 24 – August 29, 1779
• Battle of Paulus Hook – August 19, 1779
• Battle of Newtown – August 29, 1779
• Capture of Fort Bute – September 7, 1779
• Battle of Lake Pontchartrain – September 10, 1779
• Action of 14 September 1779 – September 14, 1779
• Siege of Savannah – September 16 – October 18, 1779
• Battle of Baton Rouge – September 20–21, 1779
• Battle of Flamborough Head – September 23, 1779
• Battle of San Fernando de Omoa – October 16 – November 29, 1779
• Action of 11 November 1779 – November 11, 1779
• First Battle of Martinique – December 18, 1779

1780

• Action of 8 January 1780 – January 8, 1780
• Battle of Cape St. Vincent – January 16, 1780
• Battle of Young's House – February 3, 1780
• San Juan Expedition – March – November 1780
• Battle of Fort Charlotte – March 2–14, 1780
• Siege of Charleston – March 29 – May 12, 1780
• Battle of Monck's Corner – April 14, 1780
• Second Battle of Martinique – April 17, 1780
• Battle of Lenud's Ferry – May 6, 1780
• Bird's invasion of Kentucky – May 25 – August, 1780
• Battle of St. Louis – May 25, 1780
• Battle of Waxhaws – May 29, 1780
• Battle of Connecticut Farms – June 7, 1780
• Battle of Mobley's Meeting House – June 10?, 1780
• Battle of Ramsour's Mill – June 20, 1780
• Battle of Springfield, NJ – June 23, 1780
• Huck's Defeat – July 12, 1780
• Battle of Colson's Mill – July 21, 1780
• Battle of Rocky Mount – August 1, 1780
• Battle of Hanging Rock – August 6, 1780
• Battle of Pekowee – August 8, 1780 (also known as the Battle of Piqua)
• Action of 9 August 1780 – August 9, 1780
• Battle of Camden – August 16, 1780
• Battle of Fishing Creek – August 18, 1780
• Battle of Musgrove Mill – August 18, 1780
• Battle of Black Mingo – August 28, 1780
• Battle of Wahab's Plantation – September 20, 1780
• Battle of Charlotte – September 26, 1780
• Battle of Kings Mountain – October 7, 1780
• Royalton Raid – October 16, 1780
• Battle of Klock's Field – October 19, 1780
• La Balme's Defeat – November 5, 1780
• Battle of Fishdam Ford – November 9, 1780
• Battle of Blackstock's Farm – November 20, 1780
• Battle of Fort St. George – November 23, 1780

1781

• Battle of Jersey – January 6, 1781
• Battle of Mobile – January 7, 1781
• Battle of Cowpens – January 17, 1781
• Battle of Cowan's Ford – February 1, 1781
• Capture of Sint Eustatius – February 3, 1781
• Battle of Haw River – February 25, 1781
• Battle of Wetzell's Mill – March 6, 1781
• Battle of Pensacola – March 9 – May 8, 1781
• Battle of Guilford Court House – March 15, 1781
• Battle of Cape Henry – March 16, 1781
• Siege of Fort Watson – April 15 – 23, 1781
• Battle of Porto Praya – April 15, 1781
• Battle of Blanford – April 25, 1781 (also known as the Battle of Petersburg)
• Battle of Hobkirk's Hill – April 25, 1781 (also known as the Second Battle of Camden)
• Battle of Fort Royal – April 29 or 30, 1781
• Action of 1 May 1781 – May 1, 1781
• Battle of Fort Motte – May 8–12, 1781
• Siege of Augusta – May 22 – June 6, 1781
• Siege of Ninety-Six – May 22 – June 19, 1781
• Action of 30 May 1781 – May 30, 1781
• Battle of Spencer's Ordinary – June 26, 1781
• Francisco's Fight – July, 1781
• Battle of Green Spring – July 6, 1781
• Naval battle of Louisbourg – July 21, 1781
• Battle of Dogger Bank – August 5, 1781
• Invasion of Minorca – August 19, 1781 – February 5, 1782
• Lochry's Defeat – August 24, 1781
• Capture of USS Trumbull – August 29, 1781
• Battle of the Chesapeake – September 5, 1781
• Battle of Groton Heights – September 6, 1781 (also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold)
• Battle of Eutaw Springs – September 8, 1781
• Battle of Lindley's Mill – September 13, 1781
• Long Run Massacre – September 13, 1781
• Siege of Yorktown – September 28 – October 19, 1781
• Battle of Fort Slongo – October 3, 1781
• Siege of Negapatam – October 21 – November 11, 1781
• Battle of Johnstown – October 25, 1781
• Second Battle of Ushant – December 12, 1781

1782

• Siege of Brimstone Hill – January 5 – February 12, 1782
• Capture of Trincomalee – January 11, 1782
• Capture of Demerara and Essequibo – January 22 – February 5, 1782
• Battle of Saint Kitts – January 25–26, 1782
• Battle of Sadras – February 17, 1782
• Capture of Montserrat – February 22, 1782
• Gnadenhütten massacre – March 8, 1782
• Battle of Roatán – March 16, 1782
• Action of 16 March 1782 – March 16, 1782
• Battle of Little Mountain – March 22, 1782
• Battle of Delaware Bay – April 8, 1782
• Battle of the Saintes – April 9–12, 1782
• Battle of Providien – April 12, 1782
• Battle of the Black River – April 13 – August 23, 1782
• Battle of the Mona Passage – April 19, 1782
• Action of 20–21 April 1782 – April 20–21, 1782
• Capture of the Bahamas – May, 1782
• Crawford expedition – May 25 – June 12, 1782
• Naval battle off Halifax – May 28–29, 1782
• Raid on Lunenburg – July 1, 1782
• Battle of Negapatam – July 6, 1782
• Battle of Piqua – August 8, 1782
• Hudson Bay Expedition – August 8, 1782
• Siege of Bryan Station – August 15–17, 1782
• Battle of Blue Licks – August 19, 1782
• Battle of the Combahee River – August 26, 1782
• Battle of Trincomalee – August 25 – September 3, 1782
• Siege of Fort Henry – September 11–13, 1782
• Action of 18 October 1782 – October 18, 1782
• Battle of Cape Spartel – October 20, 1782
• Action of 6 December 1782 – December 6, 1782
• Action of 12 December 1782 – December 12, 1782

1783

• Action of 22 January 1783 – January 22, 1783
• Capture of the Turks and Caicos Islands – February 12, 1783
• Capture of the Bahamas – April 14–18, 1783
• Battle of Cuddalore – June 20, 1783 (naval battle)
• Siege of Cuddalore – June 7–25, 1783 (land siege)