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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 ...
November 25 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Gloucester; November 29 – San Jose, California is founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California. December 5–8 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Marsh; December 11 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Matson's Ford
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 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 ...
In September 1777, fearing a British Army attack on the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia in the Philadelphia campaign, American patriots moved the Liberty Bell to Zion United Church of Christ on present-day Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the Liberty Bell was successfully hidden under the church's floor boards for nine ...
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.
In 1777, colonial privateers made raids into British waters capturing merchant ships, which they took into French and Spanish ports, although both were officially neutral. Seeking to challenge Britain, France signed two treaties with America in February 1778, but stopped short of declaring war on Britain.
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]