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April 13, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Battle of Ridgefield: April 27, 1777: Connecticut: British victory Battle of Thomas Creek: May 17, 1777: East Florida: British victory Meigs Raid: May 24, 1777: New York: American victory Battle of Short Hills: June 26, 1777: New Jersey: British victory Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: July 5–6, 1777: New ...
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
The Timeline of the British Army 1700–1799 lists the conflicts and wars in which the British Army was involved. War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1714; Great Northern War 1717–1720; War of the Austrian Succession 1740; Carnatic Wars 1744–1763; Seven Years' War 1756–1763; Anglo-Mysore Wars 1766–1799; First Anglo-Maratha War 1775–1782
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, hoping to meet a similar ...
August 16 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington – British forces are defeated by American troops at Walloomsac, New York. August 22 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Staten Island. American Revolutionary War: Battle of Setauket. September – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Henry. September 1
1759 – British forces, led by General James Wolfe, take French Quebec. [8] 1775 – American War of Independence begins. [9] 17 June – Battle of Bunker Hill [10] 1776 – British victory at the Battle of Long Island. [11] 1777 – British victory at the Battle of Brandywine. [12] 1777 – British defeat at the Battle of Saratoga. [13]
3 January – American Revolution: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. [2] 1 May – legal case of Goodright v. Stevens decides that the declaration of either parent cannot be accepted to prove that a child born in wedlock is a bastard.
The Battle of Red Bank, also known as the Battle of Fort Mercer, was fought on October 22, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. [2] A British and Hessian force was sent to take Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River just south of Philadelphia, but was defeated by a smaller force of Continental Army troops.