Revolutionary War Battles

The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at ________________.

• Bunker Hill

• Yorktown

• Cowpens

• Lexington and Concord

This battle was a turning point in the war for the Patriots because the French were convinced that the Americans could win the war. The French sent money, supplies, and their navy to help the Americans fight the British.

• Yorktown

• Kings Mountain

• Saratoga

• Bunker Hill

This battle was fought in SC. It was a victory for the Patriots because the cannons fired by the British sank into the spongy palmetto logs of the Patriots' fort.

• Siege of Charleston

• Battle at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island

• Battle of Kings Mountain

• Battle of Cowpens

In this battle, the Patriots were forced to surrender because they were running out of ammunition. The Patriots were told, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle at Kings Mountain

• Battle at Cowpens

• Lexington and Concord

In this battle the British were tricked into thinking the Patriots were retreating.

• Yorktown

• Bunker Hill

• Cowpens

• Siege of Charleston

In this battle fought in SC, the Patriots surrounded the Loyalists and refused to let them surrender. Most of the Loyalists were killed.

• Cowpens

• Battle of Fort Moultrie

• Kings Mountain

• Siege of Charleston

This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. The French navy blocked the harbor in Virginia and Cornwallis and his men could not be rescued. They were forced to surrender.

• Bunker Hill

• Yorktown

• Lexington and Concord

• Siege of Charleston

The British surrounded the city by land and by sea, and the city fell to the British. They tried to force the soldiers in the city to sign an oath to fight for the King but they refused and escaped the city.

• Siege of Charleston

• Battle at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island

• Cowpens

• Kings Mountain

This was signed two years after the Battle of Yorktown and officially ended the war.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Peace of Paris

The British wanted to capture the Sons of Liberty at

• Cowpens

• Bunker Hill

• Lexington

• Yorktown