|
Engagement |
Time Period |
Area |
Explanation |
| Siege of Boston |
20 Apr 1775-17 Mar 1776 |
Eastern Massachusetts |
Operations relating to the
British occupation of Boston |
| Invasion of Canada |
4 Sep-31 Dec 1775 |
Canada |
Operations by Montgomery and
Arnold through assault on Quebec |
| Chesapeake Bay |
15 Sep 1775-31 Aug 1776 |
Chesapeake Bay and adjacent
coastline regions |
Engagements with Lord Dunmore's
land and naval forces |
| Charleston 1775-1776 |
15 Sep 1775-28 Jun 1776 |
Coastal portions of the
Carolinas and Georgia |
Engagements with land and naval
forces of Royal governors and repulse of Clinton's expedition |
| Southern Highlands |
15 Sep 1775-24 Feb 1776 |
Interior portions of the
Carolinas and Georgia |
Engagements with loyalist
forces |
| Defense of Canada |
1 Jan-2 Jul 1776 |
Canada |
Siege of Quebec after repulse of
the assault and withdrawal from Canada |
| New York City |
3 Apr-16 Nov 1776 |
Southern New York and Bergen
County, New Jersey |
Operations relating to the
British capture of Long, Staten, and Manhattan Islands |
| Lake Champlain |
2 Jul-3 Nov 1776 |
Charlotte County, New York |
Carleton's attack on
Ticonderoga |
| Florida |
1 Aug 1776-31 May 1777 |
Georgia south of Ossawba Sound
and East Florida |
American invasions of East
Florida and British counterattacks |
| Northern New Jersey |
20 Nov 1776-26 Jun 1777 |
Staten Island and northern New
Jersey |
Engagements from capture of Fort
Lee to British withdrawal to start the invasion of Pennsylvania |
| Trenton - Princeton |
8 Dec 1776-6 Jan 1777 |
Southern New Jersey |
Engagements from Washington's
retreat across the Delaware River to his encampment at Morristown |
| Rhode Island |
26 Dec 1776-25 Oct 1779 |
Rhode Island |
Operations relating to the
British occupation of Newport |
| Saratoga |
18 Jun-17 Oct 1777 |
Albany and Charlotte Counties,
New York |
Operations relating to
Burgoyne's campaign |
| Mohawk Valley |
25 Jun-24 Aug 1777 |
Albany and Tryon Counties, New
York |
Operations relating to St.
Leger's campaign |
| Defense of Philadelphia |
25 Aug-19 Dec 1777 |
Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Delaware |
Engagements from British landing
at Head of Elk to Washington's encampment at Valley Forge |
| Hudson Highlands |
1-31 Oct 1777 |
Southern New York |
Operations relating to Clinton's
relief expedition |
| Philadelphia - Monmouth |
20 Dec 1777-10 Jul 1778 |
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New
Jersey |
Operations relating to the
British occupation of Philadelphia and withdrawal to Sandy Hook |
| Savannah |
28 Nov 1778-15 Oct 1779 |
Georgia and South Carolina |
Operations relating to the
British capture and defense of Savannah and coastal South Carolina |
| Charleston 1780 |
10 Feb-29 May 1780 |
South Carolina |
Siege of Charleston and related
occupation of South Carolina through the battle of Waxhaws |
| Defense of the Carolinas |
30 May 1780-14 Feb 1781 |
The Carolinas |
Operations under Gates and
Greene to the withdrawal across the Dan |
| Yorktown |
30 Dec 1780-19 Oct 1781 |
Virginia |
Siege of Yorktown and
preliminaries beginning with Arnold's Raid |
| Greene's Campaign |
15 Feb 1781-14 Dec 1782 |
The Carolinas and Georgia |
Greene's reconquest of the
South |
