List of American Revolutionary War battles

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

Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war

Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
Boston campaign (1775–1776)
Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776)
New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777)
Saratoga campaign (1777)
Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778)
Yorktown campaign (1781)
Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781)
Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
Western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1777–1782)
Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War

Battles (in chronological order)

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| Powder Alarm*||||Massachusetts||British soldiers remove military supplies

| Storming of Fort William and Mary*||||New Hampshire||American insurgents seize powder and shot after brief skirmish.

| Battles of Lexington and Concord||||Massachusetts||American insurgent victory: British forces raiding Concord driven back into Boston with heavy losses.

| Battle of Meriam's Corner||||Massachusetts||American victory. Patriots attack and inflict casualties on the British as they retreat from Concord.

| Siege of Boston|| March 17, 1776||Massachusetts||American victory: British eventually evacuate Boston after Americans fortify Dorchester heights

| Gunpowder Incident*||||Virginia||Virginia governor Lord Dunmore removes powder to a Royal Navy ship, standoff with American insurgents is resolved peacefully

| Capture of Fort Ticonderoga||||New York||Major American victory, capture British posts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point

| Battle of Chelsea Creek||||Massachusetts||American victory - capture of British ship Diana

| Broad Street Incident/Raid||||New York||American victory: Sons of Libertycapture muskets, and cartridge boxes

| Battle of Machias||||Massachusetts (present-day Maine)||American forces capture the HM schooner Margaretta

| Battle of Bunker Hill||||Massachusetts||British victory: British drive American forces from the Charlestown peninsula near Boston but suffer heavy losses

| Capture of Turtle Bay Depot||||New York||American victory: Sons of Liberty capture storehouse and magazine

| Battle of Gloucester||||Massachusetts||American victory

| Raid on the New York Battery||||New York||American victory: 23 royal cannon from The Battery were taken under fire from HMS Asia offshore

| Siege of Fort St. Jean||||Quebec||American victory - capture of British force and subsequently overrun Montreal and much of Quebec

|Battle of Longue-Pointe

|Quebec

|British victory

| Burning of Falmouth||||Massachusetts||British burn Falmouth

| Battle of Kemp's Landing||||Virginia||British victory

| Siege of Savage's Old Fields||||South Carolina||American insurgent victory - defeat of British loyalist force

| Battle of Great Bridge||||Virginia||American victory: Lord Dunmore's loyalist force is defeated

| Snow Campaign||||South Carolina||American insurgent victory; a campaign against loyalists in South Carolina

| Battle of Quebec||||Quebec||British victory: British repulse American assault on Quebec city

| Burning of Norfolk||||Virginia||British bombard Norfolk; Americans destroy what they see as a loyalist stronghold

| Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge||||North Carolina||American victory: loyalist force of Regulators and Highlanders defeated

| Battle of the Rice Boats||||Georgia||British victory

| Raid of Nassau||||Bahamas||American victory. They raided the Bahamas to obtain supplies

| Battle of Saint-Pierre||||Quebec||American victory

| Battle of Block Island||||Rhode Island||British victory

| Battle of The Cedars||||Quebec||British victory

| Battle of Round Mountain||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Trois-Rivières||||Quebec||British victory: Americans forced to evacuate Quebec

| Battle of Sullivan's Island||||South Carolina||American victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed

| Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet||||New Jersey||American victory

|Battle of McDowell's Station

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|North Carolina

|American victory

|Battle of Gwynn's Island

|Virginia

|American victory

| Battle of Lindley's Fort||||South Carolina||American victory: Native Americans' attack repulsed

| Battle of Long Island||||New York||British victory: in the largest battle of the war, the American army of George Washington is outflanked and routed on Long Island, but later manages to evacuate to Manhattan

| Landing at Kip's Bay||||New York||British victory: British capture New York City and hold it for the duration of the war

| Battle of Harlem Heights||||New York||American victory: Americans repulse British attack on Manhattan

| Battle of Coweecho River||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Valcour Island||||New York||British victory: British defeat American naval force on Lake Champlain, but victory comes too late to press the offensive against the Hudson Valley

|Battle of Mamaroneck

|New York

|British tactical victory

| Battle of White Plains||||New York||British victory

| Battle of Fort Cumberland||||Nova Scotia||British victory

| Battle of Fort Washington||||New York||British victory: British capture 3,000 Americans on Manhattan in one of the most devastating defeats of the Continental Army in the war

| Battle of Fort Lee||||New Jersey||British victory: Americans begin general retreat

| Ambush of Geary||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of Iron Works Hill||||New Jersey||British victory

| Battle of Trenton||||New Jersey||American victory: Americans capture Hessian detachment at Trenton

| Second Battle of Trenton||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of Princeton||||New Jersey||American victory: Americans defeat a small British force, the British decide to evacuate New Jersey

| Battle of Millstone||||New Jersey||American victory

| Forage War||January–March 1777||New Jersey||Americans harass remaining British forces in New Jersey

| Battle of Punk Hill||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of Bound Brook||||New Jersey||British victory

| Battle of Ridgefield||||Connecticut||British victory

| Battle of Thomas Creek||||East Florida||British victory

| Meigs Raid||||New York||American victory

| Battle of Short Hills||||New Jersey||British victory

| Siege of Fort Ticonderoga||||New York||British victory

| Battle of Hubbardton||||Vermont||British victory

| Battle of Fort Ann||||New York||British victory

| Siege of Fort Stanwix||||New York||American victory: British fail to take Fort Stanwix

| Battle of Oriskany||||New York||British victory

|Battle of the Flockey

|New York

|American victory; first American Cavalry charge

| Second Battle of Machias||||Massachusetts (present-day Maine)||British victory

| Battle of Bennington||||New York||American victory

| Battle of Staten Island||||New York||British victory

| Battle of Setauket||||New York||British victory

| First siege of Fort Henry||September 1 or 21, 1777||Virginia||American victory

| Battle of Cooch's Bridge||||Delaware||British victory

| Battle of Brandywine||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Battle of the Clouds||||Pennsylvania||Battle called off due to rain

| Battle of Freeman's Farm||||New York||British tactical victory: First of the two Battles of Saratoga

| Battle of Paoli||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Siege of Fort Mifflin||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Battle of Germantown||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery||||New York||British victory

| 2nd Battle of Saratoga||||New York||American victory: Also called the Battle of Bemis Heights. British under Burgoyne driven back and forced to surrender 10 days later; American victory demonstrates to France that the Americans can win; Franco-American treaty follows in 1778.

| Battle of Red Bank||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of Gloucester||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of White Marsh||||Pennsylvania||American victory

| Battle of Matson's Ford||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Battle of Barbados||||Barbados||British victory

| Battle of Quinton's Bridge||||New Jersey||British victory

| North Channel Naval Duel||||Great Britain||American victory

| Battle of Crooked Billet||||Pennsylvania||British victory

| Battle of Barren Hill||||Pennsylvania||Indecisive

| Mount Hope Bay raids||||Rhode Island||British victory

| Battle of Cobleskill||||New York||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of Monmouth||||New Jersey||Draw: British break off engagement and continue retreat to New York

| Battle of Alligator Bridge||||East Florida||British victory

| Battle of Wyoming||||Pennsylvania||British-Iroquois victory

| First Battle of Ushant||||Bay of Biscay||Indecisive

| Battle of Newport||||Rhode Island||British victory

| Grey's raid||||Massachusetts||British victory

| Invasion of Dominica||||Dominica||French victory

| Siege of Boonesborough||||Virginia||American victory

| Attack on German Flatts||||New York||British-Iroquois victory

| Baylor Massacre||||New Jersey||British victory

|Battle of Edgar's Lane

|New York

|American victory

| Raid on Unadilla and Onaquaga||||Indian Reserve||American victory

| Battle of Chestnut Neck||||New Jersey||British victory

| Affair at Little Egg Harbor||||New Jersey||British victory

| Carleton's Raid||||Vermont||British victory

| Cherry Valley Massacre||||New York||British-Iroquois victory

|Action of 12 December 1779||||Honduras||British victory

|Capture of St. Lucia||||St. Lucia||British victory

| Capture of Savannah||||Georgia||British victory

| Battle of Beaufort||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Kettle Creek||||Georgia||American victory

| Siege of Fort Vincennes||||Indiana||American victory

| Battle of Brier Creek||||Georgia||British victory

| Battle of Chillicothe||May 1779||Quebec||American victory

| Chesapeake raid||||Virginia||British victory

| Capture of Saint Vincent||||St. Vincent||French victory

| Battle of Stono Ferry||||South Carolina||British victory

| Great Siege of Gibraltar||||Gibraltar||British victory

| Capture of Grenada||||Grenada||French victory

| Tryon's raid||||Connecticut||British victory

| Battle of Grenada||||Grenada||French victory

| Battle of Stony Point||||New York||American victory

| Battle of Minisink||||New York||British-Iroquois victory

| Penobscot Expedition||||Massachusetts||British victory

| Battle of Paulus Hook||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of Newtown||||Indian Reserve||American victory

| Capture of Fort Bute||||West Florida||American-Spanish victory

| Battle of Lake Pontchartrain||||West Florida||American victory

| Boyd and Parker ambush||||Indian Reserve||British-Iroquois victory

| Action of 14 September 1779||||Azores||British victory

| Siege of Savannah||||Georgia||British victory

| Battle of Baton Rouge||||West Florida||American-Spanish victory

| Battle of Flamborough Head||||Great Britain||American victory

|Action of 6 October 1779

|France

|French victory

| Battle of San Fernando de Omoa||||Guatemala||British victory

| Action of 11 November 1779||||Portugal||British victory

|Action of 20 November 1779

|Portugal

|British victory

| First Battle of Martinique||||Martinique||British victory

| Action of 8 January 1780||||Spain||British victory

| Battle of Cape St. Vincent||||Portugal||British victory

| Battle of Young's House||||New York||British victory

|Battle of Van Creek

|Georgia

|Loyalist victory

| San Juan Expedition||March–November 1780||Guatemala||American-Spanish victory

| Battle of Fort Charlotte||||West Florida||American-Spanish victory

| Siege of Charleston||||South Carolina||British victory: British recapture South Carolina following the battle

| Battle of Monck's Corner||||South Carolina||British victory

| Second Battle of Martinique||||Martinique||American victory

| Battle of Lenud's Ferry||||South Carolina||British victory

| Bird's invasion of Kentucky||||Virginia||British victory

| Battle of St. Louis||||Louisiana (present-day Missouri)||Patriot-Spanish victory

| Battle of Waxhaws||||South Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Connecticut Farms||||New Jersey||British victory

| Battle of Mobley's Meeting House||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Ramsour's Mill||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Springfield||||New Jersey||American victory

| Huck's Defeat||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Bull's Ferry||||New Jersey||Loyalist victory

| Battle of Colson's Mill||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Rocky Mount||||South Carolina||Loyalist victory

| Battle of Hanging Rock||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Pekowee||||Quebec||American victory

| Action of 9 August 1780||||Atlantic||Franco-Spanish victory

|Action of 10 August 1780

|France

|British victory

|Action of 13 August 1780

|Ireland

|British victory

| Battle of Camden||||South Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Fishing Creek||||South Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Musgrove Mill||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Black Mingo||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Graham's Fort||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Wahab's Plantation||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Charlotte||||North Carolina||British victory

|Action of 30 September 1780

|Bermuda

|British victory

| Battle of McIntyre Farm||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Kings Mountain||||South Carolina||American victory: halts first British invasion of North Carolina

|Battle of Shallow Ford

|North Carolina

|American victory

| Royalton Raid||||Vermont||British victory

| Battle of Klock's Field||||New York||American victory

|Battle of Tearcoat Swamp

|South Carolina

|American victory

| La Balme's Defeat||||Quebec||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of Fishdam Ford||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Blackstock's Farm||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Fort St. George||||New York||American victory

| Battle of Hammond's Store||||South Carolina||American Victory

| Battle of Jersey||||Jersey||British victory

| Battle of Mobile||||West Florida||American-Spanish victory

| Battle of Cowpens||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Cowan's Ford||||North Carolina||British victory

| Capture of Sint Eustatius||||Sint Eustatius||British victory

| Battle of Summerfield

|North Carolina

|Patriot victory

| Battle of Harts Mill||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Haw River||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Wetzell's Mill||||North Carolina||British victory

| Siege of Pensacola||||West Florida||American-Spanish victory

| Battle of Guilford Court House||||North Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Cape Henry||||Virginia||British strategic victory, tactically indecisive

| Battle of Beattie's Mill||||South Carolina||American victory

| Siege of Fort Watson||||South Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Porto Praya||||Cape Verde||Draw

| Battle of Blandford||||Virginia||British victory

| Battle of Hobkirk's Hill||||South Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Fort Royal||||Martinique||French victory

| Action of 1 May 1781||||France||British victory

| Battle of Fort Motte||||South Carolina||American victory

|Battle of Pine's Bridge

|New York

|Loyalist victory

|Battle of Portevent's Mill

|North Carolina

|American victory

| Siege of Augusta||||Georgia||American victory

| Siege of Ninety-Six||||South Carolina||British victory

| Invasion of Tobago||||Tobago||French victory

| Action of 30 May 1781||||Barbary Coast||British victory

| Battle of Cox's Mill||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Spencer's Ordinary||||Virginia||British victory

| Francisco's Fight||July 1781||Virginia||American victory

| Battle of Green Spring||||Virginia||British victory

| Naval battle of Louisbourg||||Nova Scotia||Franco-American victory

| Battle of Dogger Bank||||North Sea||British victory

|Battle of Piqua

|Ohio

|American victory

| Invasion of Minorca||||Minorca||Franco-Spanish victory

| Lochry's Defeat||||Quebec||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of Elizabethtown||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of the Chesapeake||||Virginia||French victory

| Battle of Groton Heights||||Connecticut||British victory

| Battle of Eutaw Springs||||South Carolina||British victory

| Battle of Lindley's Mill||||North Carolina||American victory

| Long Run Massacre||||Virginia||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of Yorktown||||Virginia||Franco-American victory: Cornwallis surrenders his entire force of over 7,000; escape blocked by the French navy. Last major land battle of the war.

| Battle of Fort Slongo||||New York||American victory

| Battle of Raft Swamp||||North Carolina||American victory

| Battle of Johnstown||||New York||American victory

| Second Battle of Ushant||||Bay of Biscay||British victory

| Battle of Videau's Bridge||||South Carolina||British victory

| Siege of Brimstone Hill||||St. Christopher||Franco-American victory

|Action of 15 January 1782

|Jamaica

|British victory

| Capture of Demerara and Essequibo||||Demerara and Essequibo||Franco-American victory

| Battle of Saint Kitts||||St. Christopher||British victory

| Capture of Montserrat||||Montserrat||French victory

| Battle of Wambaw||||South Carolina||British victory

| Gnadenhütten massacre||||Ohio||

| Battle of Roatán||||Guatemala||American-Spanish victory

| Action of 16 March 1782||||Strait of Gibraltar||British victory

| Battle of Little Mountain||||Virginia||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of Delaware Bay||||New Jersey||American victory

| Battle of the Saintes||||Dominica||British victory

| Battle of the Black River||April–August 1782||Guatemala||British victory

| Battle of the Mona Passage||||Mona passage||British victory

| Action of 20–21 April 1782||||Bay of Biscay||British victory

| Capture of the Bahamas||||Bahamas||Patriot-Spanish victory

| Crawford expedition||||Quebec||British-Iroquois victory

| Naval battle off Halifax||||Nova Scotia||British victory

| Raid on Chester||||Nova Scotia||British victory

| Raid on Lunenburg||||Nova Scotia||American victory

| Hudson Bay Expedition||||Rupert's Land||Franco-American victory

| Siege of Bryan Station||||Virginia||American victory

| Battle of Blue Licks||||Virginia||British-Iroquois victory

| Battle of the Combahee River||||South Carolina||British victory

|Action of 4 September 1782||||France||British victory

|Action of 5 September 1782||||Long Island||Inconclusive

| Siege of Fort Henry||||Virginia||American victory

| Grand Assault on Gibraltar||||Gibraltar||British victory

|Action of 15 September 1782||||Delaware Bay||British victory

| Action of 18 October 1782||||Hispaniola||British victory

|Battle of James Island||||South Carolina||British victory

| Action of 6 December 1782||||Martinique||British victory

|Battle of the Delaware Capes||||Cape May||British victory

| Battle of Cedar Bridge||||New Jersey||American victory: Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas engaged John Bacon and his Loyalist bandits (known now as "Refugees") at Cedar Bridge. A brief exchange of gunfire took place, and Bacon and his men were able to escape. This was the last land battle in the U.S.

|Action of 2 January 1783||||Hispaniola||Inconclusive

| Action of 22 January 1783||||Virginia||British victory

|Action of 15 February 1783||||Guadeloupe||British victory

|Action of 17 February 1783||||Cuba||British victory

|Recapture of the Bahamas||||Bahamas||British victory

|Battle of Arkansas Post||||Louisiana (present-day Arkansas)||Spanish Victory

List of American Revolutionary War battles

Battles (in chronological order)

See also

References