American Revolutionary War: Key Places and Dates (Chapters 5-7)

Paris, France

Treaties ending French-Indian, Rev. War inked here.

Stono, S.C.

Site of unsuccessful slave uprising.

Boston, Mass.

First occupied by British troops in 1768.

Quebec, Canada

Americans failed to take this city in 1775.

Oriskany, N.Y.

Senecas, Mohawks massacred Americans, Oneidas.

Valley Forge, Pa.

U.S. Army spent punishing winter of 1777-78 here.

New York City

Site of the Stamp Act Congress.

Yorktown, Va.

Cornwallis surrendered to Washington here.

Fort Stanwyx

Patriots repelled St. Leger's army, Indians here.

Kings Mountain, S.C.

Patriot frontiersmen massacre loyalists here.

Albany, N.Y.

Colonists, Indians meet to discuss unified defense.

Philadelphia, Pennsy.

Meeting place of both Continental Congresses.

Bunker Hill, Mass.

Patriots first prove they can stand up to Brit troops.

Trenton, N.J.

Washington surprises snoring Hessians on Dec. 26.

Camden, S.C.

Patriots panic, run under Cornwallis' attack.

Pennsylvania

"The best poor white man's country."

Concord, Mass.

British marched to seize arms here in April, 1775.

Fort Ticonderoga

Its cannons were hauled to Boston to besiege Brits.

Virginia

"Stamp Act Resolves" passed by legislature here.

Lexington, Mass.

Skirmish here started the Revolutionary War.

1715

Yamasee War in South Carolina.

1733

Molasses Act.

1730s-1740s

Great Awakening.

1739

Stono Rebellion.

1754

Albany Plan of Union.

1754-1763

French and Indian War.

1763

Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War.

1764

Sugar Act.

1765

Stamp Act.

1766

Stamp Act Repealed.

1767

Townshend Acts.

1768

British troops stationed in Boston.

1770

Townshend duties repealed.

1772

Gaspee Incident.

1773

Tea Act.

1774

Coercive Acts.

1775

Revolutionary War begins at Lexington and Concord.

1776

Tom Paine's Common Sense published.

1777

Battle of Saratoga.

1778

France enters war on American side.

1780

Battle of Camden, S.C.

1781

Battle of Cowpens, S.C.

1783

Treaty of Paris ends war.