COMING OF THE REVOLUTION

French and Indian War - 1755-1763

Writs of Assistance - 1760

Parson’s Cause - 1763

Proclamation Line of 1763

Pontiac’s Rebellion - 1763

Sugar Act - 1764

Currency Act - 1764

Stamp Act - 1765

Virginia Resolves - 1765

Declaratory Act - 1766

Townshend Duties - 1767

Massachusetts Circular Letter - 1768

Arrival of Royal Troops in Boston - 1768

Boston Massacre - 1770

Carolina Regulators - 1771

Committees of Correspondence formed - 1772

Gaspe Affair - 1772

Tea Act - 1773

Boston Tea Party - 1773

Coercive Acts - 1774

Quebec Act - 1774

First Continental Congress - 1774

IMPORTANT POLITICAL FIGURES

James Warren          Joseph Warren         Benjamin Franklin

Gouverneur Morris             Robert Morris         Charles Thomson

John Dickinson                 Joseph Galloway         Thomas Jefferson

George Washington         Patrick Henry             Richard Henry Lee

Edmund Randolph             Roger Sherman             Benjamin Harrison

Silas Deane                     Daniel Dulany                 Thomas Paine

John Hancock                 James Madison                 Elbridge Gerry

Daniel Shay                     John Jay                         Alexander Hamilton

James Duane                 Lord North                     John Witherspoon

George Grenville             William Pitt                 Thomas Hutchinson

Charles Townshend         Comte de Vergennes

IMPORTANT MILITARY FIGURES

Charles Lee                 Horatio Gates                     George Washington

John Sullivan                 Nathanael Greene             Richard Montgomery

Benedict Arnold             Lord Stirling                     Benjamin Lincoln

Baron de Kalb             Henry Knox                         Marquis Lafayette

John Glover                 Anthony Wayne                     Frederick Steuben

John Stark                 Daniel Morgan                         Francis Marion

Comte de Rochambeau     Henry Lee                     Comte de Grasse

Thomas Gage             William Howe                     John Paul Jones

John Burgoyne         Guy Carleton                         Charles Cornwallis

Henry Clinton             George Germain         Lord Rawdon

Admiral Graves         Richard Howe                 Banastre Tarleton

IMPORTANT BATTLES

Boston Campaign

        Lexington and Concord (19 April 1775)

        Bunker Hill (10 May 1775)

        Siege of Boston (April 1775-April 1776)

        Dorchester Heights (5 March 1776)

New York Campaign

        Long Island ((22-28 August 1776)

        Fort Washington (16 November 1776)

        White Plains (28 October 1776)

        Trenton (26 December 1776)

        Princeton (3 January 1777)

Philadelphia Campaigns

        Brandywine Creek (11 September 1777)

        Paoli (21 September 1777)

        Germantown (4 October 1777)

        Delaware Forts (October & November 1777)

        Valley Forge (Winter 1777-78)

        Monmouth (28 June 1778)

Canada Campaigns

        Ticonderoga (10 May 1775)

        Quebec (31 December 1775)

        Valcour Island (11-13 October 1776)

        Ticonderoga (6 July 1777)

        Hubbardton (7 July 1777)

        Bennington (16 August 1777)

        Freeman’s Farm (19 September 1777)

        Bemis Heights (7 October 1777)

        Saratoga (7-17 October 1777)

Early Southern Campaigns

        Moore’s Creek Bridge (27 February 1776)

        Charleston (28 June 1776)

        Savannah (29 December 1778)

        Savannah (19 October 1779)

        Charleston (12 May 1780)

        Camden (16 August 1780)

        King’s Mountain (7 October 1780)

Later Southern Campaigns

        Cowpens (17 January 1781)

        Guilford Court House (15 March 1781)

        Hobkirk’s Hill (25 April 1781)

        Eutaw Springs (8 September 1781)

        Yorktown (19 October 1781)