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I renamed a prior page that was unused in order to remove it and create a new page with a new subject that I am likely to use. Bibliography complete as of: December 8, 2017.

Following the bibliography is a list of battles of the American Revolutionary War as a quick reference. I omit links in order to avoid unintended results. The title of the battle, with a few exceptions, and without the location name which I added, is from the Wikipedia article and the List of battles of the American Revolutionary War. That list contains linked name and date. I am adding location and, very briefly, the outcome. This is from the Wikipedia article or infobox for the article. I have added a few battles, mostly minor, that are covered in sections of Wikipedia articles or in a few instances, not at all.

Bibliography

I have divided these books into six categories. I want to avoid repetition so, except for three books repeated in the "Spies" section, I have included each book only in one category even though some might fit in more than one and a few might be close calls. When the book has a 10-digit ISBN number on its publication page, I have used an online converter to find the ISBN 13-digit number.

Atlas, Causes, Origins, Pre-War, 1776

• Archer, Richard. As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of the American Revolution. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-538247-1.
• Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Enlarged Edition. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-674-44302-0. Originally published: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
• Beeman, Richard. Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776. New York: Basic Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-465-02629-6.
• Beck, Derek W. Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2015. ISBN 978-1-4926-1395-4.
• Beck, Derek W. The War Before Independence: 1775-1776. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-1-4926-3309-9.
• Bunker, Nick. An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2015. Originally published in hardcover New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. ISBN 978-0-307-74177-6.
• Butler, Jon. Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776. Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-674-00667-6.
• Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-11705-9.
• Clary, David A. George Washington's First War: His Early Military Adventures. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4391-8110-2.
• Cook, Don The Long Fuse: How England Lost the America Colonies, 1760–1785. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-87113-661-9.
• Ferling, John. Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60819-008-9.
• Fischer, David Hackett. Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First published 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-509831-0.
• Galvin, John R. The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-1-59797-070-9. Originally published by Hawthorne Books, Inc. 1967.
• Leach, Douglas Edward. Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-8078-4258-4.
• Ketchum, Richard M. Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8050-6119-2.
• McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006. First published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-2672-1.
• Norton, Mary Beth. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. ISBN 978-0-385-35336-6.
• Park, Steven. The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59416-267-1.
• Standiford, Les. Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-0-06-189955-3.
• Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2020. ISBN 978-1-61121-442-0. Originally published by Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1986.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-306-81962-9.

General, Miscellaneous, Overview

• Atkinson, Rick. The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777. New York: Holt Paperbacks, Henry Holt and Company, 2020. ISBN 978-125-02-3132-1. First hardcover edition, 2019.
• Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 978-0-684-81060-7.
• Davies, Huw J. The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-300-21716-2. 1745-1856, two chapters on American Revolutionary War.
• Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-538292-1. (pbk.) Originally published in hard cover in 2007.
• Ferling, John. Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62040-172-9.
• Fleming, Thomas. The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution. New York: Da Capo Press/Hatchette Book Group, 2017. ISBN 978-0-306-82496-8.
• Gaines, James R. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette and Their Revolutions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06138-3.
• Greenburg, Michael M. The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty & America's Forgotten Military Disaster. [Penobscot Expedition]. Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61168-535-0.
• Griffith II, Samuel B. The War for American Independence: From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-252-07060-0. Originally published as In Defense of the Public Liberty. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.
• Johnson, Clint. Colonial America and the American Revolution: The 25 Best Sites. San Francisco: Greenline Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9766013-2-6.
• Johnson, James M., Christopher Pryslopski and Andrew Villani, eds. Key to the Northern Country: The Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4384-4814-5.
• Kelly, Jack. Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press, LLC, 2014. ISBN 978-1-137-27877-7.
• Leckie, Robert. George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution. New York: Harper Perennial, a division of HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 978-0-06-092215-3. First published 1992.
• Lefer, David. The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution. New York: Penguin Group, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59523-069-0.
• Mackesy, Piers. The War for America, 1775-1783. Bison Book Edition. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8032-8192-9. Originally published: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
• Mayers, Robert A. The War Man: The True Story of a Citizen-Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59416-082-0.
• McClanahan, Brion. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2009. ISBN 978-1-59698-092-1.
• Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763 – 1789. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-19-502921-5.
• O'Donnell, Patrick K. Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the American Revolution. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8021-2459-3
• Oller, John. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-306-82457-9.
• O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-300-19107-3.
• Palmer, Dave R. George Washington's Military Genius. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-1-59698-791-3.
• Parkinson, Roger. The American Revolution. The Putnam Pictorial Sources Series. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. OCLC 155390.
• Pearson, Michael. Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-306-80983-5. Originally published New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. OCLC 308651
• Philbrick, Nathaniel. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution. New York: Penguin Random House, LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-0-525-42678-3.
• Piecuch, Jim, ed. Cavalry of the American Revolution. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59416-154-4.
• Rankin, Hugh F. The North Carolina Continentals. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971. New Foreword 2005. ISBN 978-0-8078-5662-8.
• Royster, Charles. A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & American Character, 1775-1783. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. ISBN 978-0-8078-4606-3.
• Salinger, Sharon V. Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8018-7899-2.
• Savas, Theodore P. and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Savas, Beattie LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-932714-94-4.
• Smith, Gregg. Beer in America: The Early Years_1587-1840: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation. Boulder, CO: Siris Books, 1998. ISBN 978-0-937381-65-6. (Also in Colonial Era bibliography.)
• Spring, Matthew H. With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783. ISBN 978-0-8061-4152-7. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Originally published in hard cover, 2008.
• Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. Annapolis, MD: The Nautical and Aviation Press of America, Inc., 1986. ISBN 978-0-933852-53-2.
• Tonsetic, Robert L. Special Operations During the American Revolution. Philadelphia, Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61200-165-4. (Repeated in Spies section below.)
• Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. ISBN 978-0-394-55333-7.
• Ward, Christopher. John Richard Alden, ed. The War of the Revolution. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61608-080-8. Originally published Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1952.

Spies, Intelligence, Special Operations

• Bakeless, John. Turncoats, Traitors & Heroes: Espionage in the American Revolution. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-306-80843-2. Originally published New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1959.
• Daigler, Kenneth A. Spies, Patriots and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62616-050-7.
• Kilmeade, Brian and Don Yaeger. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Save the American Revolution. New York: Penguin Group, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59523-103-1.
• Mahoney, Henry Thayer and Marjorie Locke Mahoney. Gallantry in Action: A Biographic Dictionary of Espionage in the American Revolutionary War.. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-0-7618-1479-5.
• Nagy, John A. Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59416-184-1.
• Nagy, John A. George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-2501-9066-6.
• Nagy, John A. Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59416-141-4.
• Paul, Joel Richard. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Saved the American Revolution. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59448-883-2.
• Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. New York: Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, 2007. First published in hardcover in 2006. ISBN 978-0-553-38329-4.
• Schaeper, Thomas J. Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-11842-1.
• Sulick, Michael J. Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-62616-058-3.
• Tonsetic, Robert L. Special Operations During the American Revolution. Philadelphia, Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61200-165-4.

Battles, Campaigns, Locations

• Adelberg, Michael S. The American Revolution in Monmouth County: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60949-001-0.
• Babits, Lawrence E. A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-4926-2.
• Babits, Lawrence E., and Joshua B. Howard. Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8078-3266-0.
• Baker, Thomas E. Another Such Victory: The story of the American defeat at Guilford Courthouse that helped win the War for Independence. New York: Eastern Acorn Press, 1992. First published 1981. ISBN 978-0-89062-105-9.
• Bass, Robert D. Ninety Six: The Struggle for the South Carolina Back Country. Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Co., Inc. 1978. ISBN 978-0-87844-039-9.
• Bearss, Edwin C. Battle of Cowpens: A Documented Narrative and Troop Movement Maps. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1996. Originally published by National Park Service, 1967. ISBN 978-1-57072-045-1.
• Berleth, Richard. Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier. Delmar, NY: Black Dome Press Corp., 2009, Paperback, 2010. ISBN 978-1-883789-66-4.
• Blackmon, Richard D. Dark and Bloody Ground: The American Revolution Along the Southern Frontier. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59416-189-6.
• Borick, Carl P. A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2012. ISBN 978-1-57003-487-9.
• Borkow, Richard, George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson & the Trapping of Cornwallis. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60949-039-3.
• Borneman, Walter R. American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution. New York: Little Brown & Company, 2014. ISBN 978-0-316-22102-3.
• Braisted, Todd W. Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59416-250-3.
• Buchanan, John. The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8139-4224-7.
• Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First published 1997. ISBN 978-0-471-32716-5.
• Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-471-44156-4.
• Cecere, Michael. The Invasion of Virginia 1781. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2017. ISBN 1-59416-279-4.
• Davis, Burke. The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown. Conshohocken, PA: Eastern Acorn Press, 1996. OCLC 39752924. Originally published: New York: Dial Press, 1970.
• Desjardin, Thomas A. Through A Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. ISBN 978-0-312-33905-0. Originally published in hard cover: New York, St. Martin's Press, 2006.
• Dunkerly, Robert M. Unhappy Catastrophes: The American Revolution in Central New Jersey, 1776-1782. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beattie, LLC, 2022. ISBN 978-1-61121-527-4.
• Dunkerly, Robert M. and Irene B. Boland. Eutaw Springs: The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61117-758-9.
• Dykeman, Wilma. The Battle of Kings Mountain 1780: With Fire and Sword. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1978. OCLC 2596896.
• Edgar, Walter. Partisans & Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2003. Originally published New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 978-0-380-80643-0.
• Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. First published 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-518159-3.
• Fleming, Thomas. Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge. New York: Collins (Smithsonian Books), 2006. Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-087293-9.
• Flood, Charles Bracelen. Rise and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. ISBN 978-0-396-07356-7.
• Gabriel, Michael P. The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60949-515-2.
• Glickstein, Don. After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence. Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2015. ISBN 978-1-59416-233-6.
• Gordon, John W. South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-57003-480-0.
• Greene, Jerome A. The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781. New York: Savas Beatie, LLC, 2009. ISBN 978-1-932714-68-5.
• Harris, Michael C. Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle That Lost Philadelphia but Saved America. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2014, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-325-6.
• Hazlegrove, William. Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4930-5662-0.
• Kelly, Jack. Valcour: The 1776 Campaign that Saved the Cause of Liberty. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-250-24711-7.
• Ketchum, Richard M. Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill. New York: Henry Holt & Co., LLC, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8050-6099-7. Originally published as The Battle of Bunker Hill by Doubleday, 1962. Published as Decisive day by Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
• Ketchum, Richard M. Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8050-6119-2.
• Ketchum, Richard M. Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War. New York: A John Macrae/Owl Book, Henry Holt & Co., LLC, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8050-6123-9. Originally published in hard cover by Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1997.
• Ketchum, Richard M. Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign that Won the Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Co., LLC. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8050-7396-6.
• Ketchum, Richard M. The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton. New York: Henry Holt & Co., LLC, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8050-6098-0. Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1973.
• Langguth, A. J. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster (Touchstone), 1988. ISBN 978-0-671-67562-2. Originally published New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
• Lefkowitz, Arthur S. Benedict Arnold's Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War. New York: Savas Beattie LLC, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932714-03-6.
• Lefkowitz, Arthur S. The Long Retreat: The Calamitous American Defense of New Jersey 1776. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8135-2759-8. Originally published Metuchen, NJ: Upland Press, 1998.
• Leiby, Adrian C. The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Second edition. Originally published: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 1962. ISBN 978-0-8135-0898-6.
• Lender, Mark Edward. Fort Ticonderoga, The Last Campaigns; The War in the North, 1777-1783. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2022. ISBN 978-1-59416-383-8.
• Lender, Mark Edward and Garry Wheeler Stone. Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign and the Politics of Battle. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8061-5748-1.
• Lockhart, Paul. The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. ISBN 978-0-06-195886-1.
• Maloy, Mark. Victory or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beattie LLC, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61121-381-2.
• McBurney, Christian M. The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59416-134-6.
• McGuire, Thomas J. Battle of Paoli. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8117-0198-3.
• McGuire, Thomas J. The Philadelphia Campaign: Brandywine and the Fall of Philadelphia. Volume 1. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8117-0178-5.
• McGuire, Thomas J. The Philadelphia Campaign: Germantown and the Roads to Valley Forge. Volume 2. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8117-0206-5.
• McGuire, Thomas J. The Surprise of Germantown, or, The Battle of Cliveden: October 4, 1777. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1994. ISBN 978-0-939631-77-3.
• Nelson, James L. With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-312-57644-8.
• O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume One 1771 – 1779. United States : Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-1-59113-458-9.
• O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume Two 1780. United States : Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-1-59113-588-3.
• O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume Three 1781. United States : Booklocker.com, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-1-59113-700-9.
• O'Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas Volume Four 1782. United States : Booklocker.com, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-1-59113-823-5.
• Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8173-0191-0.
• Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. New York: Viking, 2018. ISBN 978-0-525-42676-9.
• Schellhammer, Michael. George Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1776. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-0-7864-6807-2.
• Schecter, Barnet. The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. First published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc. 2002. ISBN 978-0-14-200333-6.
• Smith, Richard B. Ethan Allen & The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga: America's First Victory. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59629-920-7.
• Stempfel, Jim. American Hannibal: The Extraordinary Account of the Revolutionary War Hero Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens. Tucson, AZ: Penmore Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-946409-26-3.
• Swisher, James K. The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-1-58980-503-3.
• Taaffe, Stephen R. The Philadelphia Campaign: 1777-1778. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7006-1267-3.
• Tonsetic, Robert L. 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61200-078-7.
• Tourtellot, Arthur B. Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963, reissued 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-32056-5. Originally published as William Diamond's Drum. Doubleday & Company, 1959.
• Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781: The Winning of American Independence. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-5107-6935-9.
• Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Saving Washington's Army: The Brilliant Last Stand of General John Glover at the Battle of Pell's Point, New York, October 18, 1776. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-5107-6937-3.
• Venter, Bruce M. The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62619-325-3.
• Williams, Glenn F. Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59416-041-7. Originally published in hard cover, 2005.
• Wilson, David K. The Southern Strategy: Britain's Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2008. Hardcover edition first published 2005. ISBN 978-1-57003-797-9.

Biographies

• Allison, Andrew M. The Real Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of America's Greatest Diplomat. United States: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88080-001-3. First published 1982. Part II Timeless Treasures from Benjamin Franklin (selections from his writings) selected by W. Cleon Skousen and Richard M. Maxfield.
• Ansary, Cyrus A. George Washington, Dealmaker-in-Chief: The Story of How the Father of Our Country Unleashed the Entrepreneurial Spirit in America. Washington, DC: Cyrus A. Ansary, 2019. ISBN 978-1-7326879-0-5
• Bass, Robert D. Swamp Fox: The life and campaigns of General Francis Marion. Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Co., 1974. ISBN 978-0-87844-051-1. Originally published New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1959.
• Bennett, Charles E. and Donald R. Lennon. Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution: A Quest for Glory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8078-1982-1.
• Billias, George Athan, ed. George Washington's Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-306-80560-8.
• Birzer, Bradley J. American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-93385989-7.
• Brands, H. W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Anchor Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-385-49540-0. Originally published by New York: Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., 2000.
• Broadwater, Jeff. George Mason: Forgotten Founder. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8078-3053-6.
• Brookhiser, Richard. Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution. New York: Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2003. ISBN 978-0-7432-5602-5.
• Callo, Joseph F. John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59114-102-0.
• Carbone, Gerald M. Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC, 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-60271-7.
• Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-14-303475-9. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. First published by The Penguin Press, 2004.
• Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: The Penguin Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59420-266-7.
• Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-70524-3. First published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., 2000.
• Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, 1998. First published in hardcover, 1996. ISBN 978-0-679-44490-9.
• Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 1974. ISBN 978-0-316-28616-9. First published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969.
• Forman, Samuel A. Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4556-1474-5.
• Freeman, Douglas Southall. An Abridgement by Richard Harwell of the 7-Volume Biography. Washington. New York: Touchstone, 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-82637-0. First published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968.
• Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Green and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8050-8005-6.
• Gregg II, Gary L. and Mark David Hall, eds. America's Forgotten Founders. Second edition. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61017-023-9. Originally published 2008.
• Haller, Stephen E. William Washington: Cavalryman of the Revolution. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7884-1803-7.
• Henriques, Peter R. Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8139-2547-9.
• Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1979. ISBN 978-0-8078-1386-7. Originally published Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Higginbotham, Don, ed. George Washington Reconsidered. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8139-2006-1.
• Hyland, Jr., William G. In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, an Imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-429-96926-0.
• Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. First published Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2003. ISBN 978-0-7432-5807-4.
• Kaminski, John P. George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic. Madison, WI: Madison House Publishers, Inc., 1993. ISBN 978-0-945612-17-9.
• Kaminski, John P. The Great Virginia Triumvirate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & James Madison, In the Eyes of Their Contemporaries. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8139-2876-0.
• Kauffman, Bill. Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-933859-73-6.
• Kranish, Michael. Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-537462-9.
• Lee, Mike. Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government. New York: Sentinel, 2017. ISBN 978-0-399-56445-1.
• Lilliback, Peter with Jerry Newcombe. George Washington's Sacred Fire. Bryn Mawr, PA: Providence Forum Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9786052-6-1.
• Lockhart, Paul Douglas. The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Stueben and the Making of the American Army. New York: Harper, 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-145163-8. Originally published New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
• Mahoney, Henry Thayer and Marjorie Locke Mahoney. Gallantry in Action: A Biographic Dictionary of Espionage in the American Revolutionary War.. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-0-7618-1479-5. (Repeated in Spies section above.)
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the Virginian. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948. OCLC 1823927.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. OCLC 23987651.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962. OCLC 1856804.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. OCLC 4314946. ISBN 978-0-316-54467-2.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. OCLC 1929523.
• Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. OCLC 7564241. ISBN 978-0-316-54463-4.
• Mayer, Henry. A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Revolution. New York: Grove Press, 2001. First published in 1986 by Franklin Watts. ISBN 978-0-8021-3815-6.
• Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. New York: Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6766-4.
• McGrath, Tim. John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-594-16153-7.
• McCullough, David. John Adams. ISBN 978-1-4165-7588-7. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. First published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2001.
• Meister, Charles W. The Founding Fathers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987. Paperback reprint. ISBN 978-0-7864-6759-4.
• Mintz, Max M. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gates. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-300-04778-3.
• Murchison, William. The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-933859-94-1.
• Nelson, Craig. Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution and the Birth of Modern Nations. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-311238-9.
• Norman, Jesse. Edmund Burke: The First Conservative. New York: Basic Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-465-05897-6.
• Palmer, Dave R. George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-1-59698-020-4.
• Parry, Jay A., Andrew A. Allison and W. Cleon Skousen The Real George Washington. United States: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88080-014-3.
• Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-62388-0.
• Puls, Mark. Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7582-5.
• Randall, Willard Sterne. Ethan Allen: His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton Company, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07665-3.
• Rankin, Hugh F. Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973. ISBN 978-0-690-00097-9.
• Rappleye, Charles. Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4165-7091-2.
• Rose, Ben Z. John Stark: Maverick General. Waverly, MA: TreeLine Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9789123-0-7.
• Royster, Charles. Light Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1981. ISBN 978-0-394-51337-9.
• Rutland, Robert A. James Madison: The Founding Father New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987. ISBN 978-0-02-927601-3.
• Schaeper, Thomas J. Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-11842-1. (Repeated from Spies section above.)
• Shelton, Hal T. General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel. New York: NYU Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8147-8039-8.
• Smith, Jean Edward. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation. New York: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8050-5510-8.
• Starr, Walter. John Jay. New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. Copyright 2005. ISBN 978-0-8264-1879-1.
• Stewart, David O. American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4391-5718-3. (pbk.)
• Stoll, Ira. Samuel Adams: A Life. New York: Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-9911-4.
• Storozynski, Alex. The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-312-38802-7.
• Rubin Stuart, Nancy. The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8070-5517-5.
• Toth, Michael C. Founding Federalist: The Life of Oliver Ellsworth. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-935-19116-2.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7858-2026-0. Originally published Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. Lafayette. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-471-46885-1.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and A Nation's Call to Greatness. Philadelphia: DaCapo Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-306-81808-0.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-471-74496-2)).
• Vail, Jini Jones. Rochambeau: Washington's Ideal Lieutenant: A French General's Role in the American Revolution. Tarentum, PA: Word Association Publishers, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59571-602-6.
• Wigger, John. American Saint: Francis Asbury & The Methodists. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. First paperback issued 2012. ISBN 978-0-19994-824-6.
• Zambone, Albert Louis. Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing Co.: 2018. ISBN 978-1-59416-315-9.

Documents, First-hand, Original Sources, Participants' Memoirs

• Cappon, ed., Lester J. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987 reprint. Originally published 1959. ISBN 978-0-8078-4230-0.
• Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris. The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-306-80620-9. Originally published: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.
• Dunkerly, Robert M. The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59629-236-9.
• Jefferson, Thomas. Writings, Autobiography, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public Papers, Addresses, Messages, and Replies, Miscellany, Letters. New York: Library of America, 1984. ISBN 978-0-940450-16-5. Merrill D. Peterson wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume.
• Kaminski, John P. The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8139-2757-2.
• Madison, James. Adreinne Koch, ed. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison. Paperback. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8214-0765-3. Originally published in hardcover 1965. First published as v. 2-3 The Papers of James Madison. Washington: 1840.
• Madison, James. Writings. Library of America. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-1-883011-66-6.
• Martin, Joseph Plumb. Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-0-486-45146-6. Originally published as A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin. Hallowell, Maine: Glazier, Masters & Co., 1830.
• Rhodehamel, John. The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-1-883-01191-8.
• Scheer, George F. and Hugh F. Rankin. Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It. New York: Da Capo Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-306-80307-9. Originally published: Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1957.
• Washington, George. John Rhodehamel, ed. George Washington, Writings. New York: The Library of America, Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA, 1997. ISBN 978-1-883-01123-9.
• Winsor, Justin. The American Revolution: A Narrative, Critical and Bibliographical History. New York: Land's End Press, 1972. Compiled by Jack Brussel from parts of Volumes 6, parts 1 and 2, and Volume 7 of Winsor, Justin, ed., Narrative, Critical and Bibliographical History of America. OCLC 354460.

Naval

• Daughan, George C. If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy – From the Revolution to the War of 1812. New York: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2008. ISBN 978-0465-02514-5.
• McGrath, Tim. Give Me A Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea. New York: NAL Caliber, 2014. ISBN 978-0-451-41610-0.
• Nelson, James L. Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution. Camden, ME: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2006. ISBN 978-0-07-146806-0.
• Nelson, James L. George Washington's Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle That Won the American Revolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN 978-0-07-162679-8.
• Nelson, James L. George Washington's Secret Navy: How the American Revolution Went to Sea. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. ISBN 978-0-07-149389-5.
• Willis, Sam. The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2015. ISBN 978-0-393-23992-8

Post-war

• Avlon, John. Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4767-4647-0.
• Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle Over Ratification, September 1787-February 1788. New York: Library of America, 1993. ISBN 978-0-940450-42-4.
• Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle Over Ratification, January-August 1788. New York: Library of America, 1993. ISBN 978-0-940450-64-6.
• Beeman, Richard. Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8129-7684-7.
• Beirne, Logan. Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & The Forging of the Presidency. New York: Encounter Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59403-640-8.
• Bordewich, Fergus M. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4516-9193-1.
• Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Reprinted 1986. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. OCLC 49499600.
• Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Random House, 1986. ISBN 978-0-394-52346-0.
• Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8078-4786-2.
• DeRose, Chris. Founding Rivals: Madison v. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election that Saved a Nation. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-1-59698-192-8.
• Ferling, John. Adams v. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-518906-3.
• Ferling, John. Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-60819-528-2.
• Fleming, Thomas. The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-306-82127-1.
• Fleming, Thomas. The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First Smithsonian Books paperback edition 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-113910-9. (1781 – 1783)
• Fowler, Jr., William M. American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783. New York: Walker & Company, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8027-1706-1.
• Gaff, Allen D. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. First paperback edition 2008. ISBN 978-0-8061-3930-2.
• Larson, Edward J. The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789. New York: HarperCollins, 2014. ISBN 978-0-06-224867-1.
• Lee, Mike. Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government. New York: Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. ISBN 978-0-399-56445-1.
• Madison, James. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1985. Introduction by Adrienne Koch. ISBN 978-0-8214-0765-3.
• Madison, James. James Madison: Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc, distributed by Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-1-883011-66-6.
• Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-0-684-86854-7.
• McClanahan, Brion. The Founding Fathers Guide to the Constitution. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-1-59698-193-5.
• McCraw, Thomas K. The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-674-06692-2.
• Richards, Leonard L. Shay's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8122-1870-1. Originally published in hard cover, 2002.
• Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-19-505191-9. Originally published in hard cover New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1986
• Stewart, David O. Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4516-8858-0.
• Stewart, David O. The Men Who Invented the Constitution: The Summer of 1787. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-8693-0.
• Storing, Herbert J with Murray Dry. What the Anti-Federalists Were For. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-226-77574-6.
• Toll, Ian W. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-33032-8.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. America's Second Revolution: How George Washington Defeated Patrick Henry and Saved the Nation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-10751-5.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. "Mr. President" George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office. Boston: Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Book Group, 2013. ISBN 978-0-306-82241-4.
• Unger, Harlow Giles. The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0-471-65113-0.

Battles of the American Revolutionary War

Under construction.

Military actions marked with an asterisk were without reported casualties.

Pre-war Incidents

• Boston Massacre, Boston, Massachusetts - 5 colonists dead, 6 others wounded -- March 5, 1770
• Gaspee Affair, near Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island - HMS Gaspee captured and burned by colonists -- June 9, 1772*
• Boston Tea Party -- December 16, 1773*
• Powder Alarm, Charlestown (Somerville), Massachusetts - British soldiers remove military supplies. -- September 1, 1774*
• The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States in Philadelphia at Carpenters' Hall from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The delegates agreed on a Declaration and Resolves that included the Continental Association, a proposal for an embargo on British trade. They also drew up a Petition to the King pleading for redress of their grievances and repeal of the Intolerable Acts. These actions produced no effects. Peyton Randolph was elected as president of the Congress and he served through October 22 when ill health forced him to retire, and Henry Middleton was elected in his place for the last four days of the session.
• Annapolis Tea Party - Burning of the Peggy Stewart (ship), Annapolis, Maryland -- October 19, 1774*
• Storming of Fort William and Mary, New Castle, New Hampshire - Patriots seize powder and shot after brief skirmish -- December 14, 1774*

1775

• Battle of Lexington, Massachusetts and Battle of Concord, Massachusetts -- Patriot (American) victory – April 19, 1775

• Siege of Boston, Massachusetts - Patriot (American) victory – April 19, 1775 -– March 17, 1776
• Gunpowder Incident, Williamsburg, Virginia - Peacefully resolved - The Gunpowder Incident (or Gunpowder Affair) was a conflict early in the American Revolutionary War between Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, and militia led by Patrick Henry. On April 20, 1775, Lord Dunmore ordered the removal of the gunpowder from the magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia to a Royal Navy ship. This action sparked local unrest, and militia companies began mustering throughout the colony. Patrick Henry led a small militia force toward Williamsburg to force return of the gunpowder to the colony's control. The matter was resolved without conflict when a payment of £330 was made to Henry. Dunmore, fearing for his personal safety, later retreated to a naval vessel, ending royal control of the colony. -– April 20, 1775*
• New York City Armory Raid - Sons of Liberty capture muskets, bayonets and cartridge boxes from the armory at New York City Hall - Patriot (American) victory -- April 23, 1775*
• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, New York - Patriot (American) victory -– May 10, 1775*
• Second Continental Congress convened at Philadelphia -- May 10, 1775
• Capture of Crown Point, New York - Patriot (American) victory –- May 11, 1775
• Capture of British schooner Katherine, renamed USS Liberty on Lake Champlain at Skenesboro (now Whitehall), New York - Patriot (American) victory -- May 11, 1775
• Battle off Fairhaven first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in Buzzards Bay off Fairhaven, Massachusetts (formerly known as Dartmouth, Massachusetts) --- Patriots (Americans) retrieve two vessels which had been taken by HMS Falcon and kill 1, wound 2, take 13 prisoners - May 14, 1775
• Capture of British sloop George, renamed USS Enterprise at St. John on the Richelieu River off Lake Champlain, New York; in total: destruction of five British ships and capture of five other British ships - Patriot (American) victory -- May 18, 1775
• Battle of Chelsea Creek (also called Battle of Noddle's Island or Battle of Noodle Island, Battle of Hog Island and the Battle of the Chelsea Estuary), Massachusetts - Patriot (American) victory –- May 27–28, 1775
• Battle of Machias, Massachusetts (now Maine) (1775) (also known as Battle of the Margaretta) (naval battle) - Patriots (Americans) capture armed schooner Margaretta –- June 11–12, 1775
• Battle of Bunker Hill (also known as the Battle of Breed's Hill), Massachusetts - British Pyrrhic victory, occupy Charlestown peninsula but with great loss of nearly one-third of deployed force –- June 17, 1775
• The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775, which explains why the Thirteen Colonies had taken up arms in what had become the American Revolutionary War. Written by Thomas Jefferson and revised by John Dickinson.
• Capture of Turtle Bay Depot -- Patriots (Americans) capture storehouse and magazine at New York City - July 20, 1775*
• Battle of Gloucester, Massachusetts (1775) - Patriot (American) victory –- August 8, 1775
• Raid of the Battery -- Hearts of Oak, NY Militia group including Alexander Hamilton, take 23 royal cannon from The Battery under fire from HMS Asia offshore - Patriot victory - August 23, 1775
• Stonington, Connecticut; Shelling of Stonington, New London County, Connecticut by British ship -– August 30, 1775
• Siege of Fort St. Jean (also called St. John's) (Present-day Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) - (Patriot) Continental Army gains control over Quebec territory between Lake Champlain, Montreal and Quebec City) - Patriot casualties: 20–100 killed and wounded, at least 900 sick; British casualties: 20 dead, 23 wounded, about 700 captured - Patriot (American) victory –- September 17 – November 3, 1775
• Battle of Longue-Pointe; Battle of Montreal, Quebec, Canada -- Patriot casualties: 6 killed, 10 wounded, 20 Americans and 11 Canadiens surrendered, including Ethan Allen, remaining force scattered; 5-8 British casualties - British victory -- September 24 - 25, 1775
• Burning of Falmouth, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine) by British -– October 18, 1775*
• Capture of British fort at Chambly, Quebec - Patriot (American) victory -- October 19, 1775
• Capture of British fort at Longueil, Quebec - Patriot (American) victory –- October 30, 1775
• Capture of British fort at St. John, Quebec - Patriot (American) victory –- November 2, 1775
• Capture of British fort at Montreal, Quebec - Patriot (American) victory –- November 13, 1775
• Battle of Kemp's Landing, Virginia (also known as the Skirmish of Kempsville) - British victory -– November 14, 1775
• Siege of Savage's Old Fields, South Carolina - The siege of Savage's Old Fields (also known as the first siege of Ninety Six,) was an encounter between Patriot and Loyalist forces in the back country town of Ninety Six, South Carolina, early in the American Revolutionary War. First major conflict in South Carolina after bloodless seizures of several military fortifications. After two days the larger besieging Loyalist force, having lost four killed and 20 wounded to one Patriot killed and 12 wounded, withdrew. The Patriots also withdrew toward the coast, but a major Patriot expedition, the Snow Campaign not long after resulted in the arrest or flight of most of the Loyalist leadership - Inconclusive result, though Patriots retained gunpowder - November 19–21, 1775
• Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia (now Chesapeake, Virginia) - Patriot (American) victory –- December 9, 1775
• Snow Campaign, South Carolina - October -- December 23, 1775
• Great Cane Brake, South Carolina -- Exact location unknown; near the Reedy River approximately 7 miles southwest of Simpsonville, South Carolina - Loyalist casualties; 6 killed, wounded unknown, 130 captured against 1 Patriot wounded - Patriot (American) victory -- December 22 – 23, 1775
• Battle of Quebec, Canada (1775) -- Siege of Quebec repulsed; Patriot casualties: 84 killed and wounded, 431 captured against 19 British killed and wounded - British victory –- December 31, 1775

1776

• Burning of Norfolk, Virginia – Destruction of the town by combined action of British and Patriot Whig forces who wanted to deprive Loyalists of the town after the shelling -- January 1, 1776
• Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina – Loyalists: 50 killed or wounded, 850 captured; Patriots: 1 killed, 1 wounded - Patriot (American) victory -- February 27, 1776
• Battle of the Rice Boats (also called the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff), Savannah River near Savannah, Georgia – Land and naval battle in and around the Savannah River on the border between the Provinces of Georgia and South Carolina on March 2 and 3, 1776. Patriot militia from Georgia and South Carolina against a small fleet of the Royal Navy sent to Georgia from Boston to purchase rice and other supplies. Some of the supply ships were burned to prevent their seizure, some were recaptured, but most were successfully taken by the British. Patriot losses: 1 wounded, 1 fire ship sunk, 3 supply ships captured; British losses: Unknown casualties, ~2 men-of-war damaged, 3 supply ships sunk. End of British control of Georgia until 1778 - British tactical victory; Patriot (American) strategic victory -- March 2–3, 1776
• Caribbean Sea

• First Battle of Nassau, 1776 - The Battle of Nassau (March 3–4, 1776) was a naval action and amphibious assault by American forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas. It is considered the first cruise and one of the first engagements of the newly established Continental Navy and the Continental Marines. The action was also the Marines' first amphibious landing. It is sometimes known as the Raid of Nassau. On March 3, the marines went ashore and seized Fort Montagu at the eastern end of the Nassau harbor, but did not advance to the town, where the gunpowder was stored. That night, Nassau's governor had most of the gunpowder loaded aboard ships that then sailed for St. Augustine. On March 4, the colonial marines advanced and took control of the poorly-defended town. The colonial forces remained at Nassau for two weeks, and took away all the remaining gunpowder and munitions they could. The fleet returned to New London, Connecticut in early April, after capturing a few British supply ships, and notably failed to capture HMS Glasgow in an action on April 6. - Patriot (American) victory –- March 3–4, 1776.

• Fort Mantagu; Fort Nassau; HMS Glasgow, HMS Hawk and HMS Boloton v. American Fleet

• Fortification of Dorchester Heights - British forces evacuate Boston on March 17 –- March 4, 1776
• Battle of Saint-Pierre, Quebec – Forces that were both largely composed of Canadian militia, including individuals on both sides of the conflict that had been recruited in the same communities. The Patriot forces routed the Loyalist forces, killing at least 3 and capturing more than 30. = Patriot (American) victory -- March 25, 1776
• Capture of small British warships Hawk and Bolton at sea off Long Island by Patriots (Americans) -- April 4-5, 1776
• Battle of Block Island, Rhode Island (HMS Glasgow v. U.S. Ships USS Cabot, USS Alfred, USS Andrew Doria and USS Columbus – Inconsequential; HMS Glasgow escapes capture; Patriots: 10 killed, 14 wounded; British: 1 killed, 3 wounded. -- April 6, 1776
• Battle of The Cedars, Quebec – Skirmishes, which involved limited combat; Continental Army units were opposed by a small force of British troops leading a larger force of Indians (primarily Iroquois) and militia. Garrison at the Cedars surrendered on May 19 after a confrontation with a combined force of British and Indian troops led by Captain George Forster. American reinforcements on their way to the Cedars were also captured after a brief skirmish on May 20. All of the captives were eventually released after negotiations between Forster and Arnold; Americans eventually did not release equal number of British due to alleged atrocities. - Tactical British victory; No strategic impact -- May 18–27, 1776
• Battle of Trois-Rivières, Quebec – Patriots: 30–50 killed, c. 30 wounded, 236 captured; British: 8 dead, 9 wounded. Americans forced to leave Quebec. - British victory -- June 8, 1776
• Battle of Sullivan's Island (Fort Sullivan) (1st Battle of Charleston, South Carolina) or first siege of Charleston – British land assault was frustrated when the channel between the two islands was found to be too deep to wade, and the American defenses prevented an amphibious landing. The naval bombardment had little effect due to the sandy soil and the spongy nature of the fort's palmetto log construction. Careful fire by the defenders wrought significant damage on the British fleet, which withdrew to New York after an entire day's bombardment. British did not return to South Carolina until 1780. - Patriot (American) victory -- June 28, 1776
• Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (naval battle off Cape May, New Jersey) – Early naval victory for the Continental Navy and future "Father of the American Navy", Captain John Barry, who succeeded in saving most of shipment of gunpowder from brigantine Nancy and blowing it up, killing many British who boarded it. First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War. British moved blockade of Philadelphia away from Cape May. - Patriot (American) victory -- June 29, 1775
• Declaration of Independence released; Independence Day (United States) -- July 4, 1776
• Battle of Gwynn's Island on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Mathews County, Virginia. -- Andrew Lewis lead Virginia Patriots against John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore's small naval squadron and British loyalist troops. Accurate cannon fire from the nearby Virginia mainland persuaded Dunmore to abandon his base at Gwynn's Island and eventually to flee to New York and other locations. While camping on the island cooped up aboard Dunmore's ships, the Loyalists suffered heavy mortality from smallpox and an unknown fever, particularly among the escaped slaves that Dunmore recruited to fight against the American Patriots. - Patriot victory. - July 8–10, 1776
• Cherokee Campaign (Second Cherokee War)

• Battle of Lindley's Fort (Abbeville County, South Carolina); sometimes shown as Lyndley's - Present day Laurens County; Loyalists and Cherokees try to regain back country; colonial militia men arrive day after residents driven into fort, drive off Loyalists and Indians and pursued them, killing 2, wounding 13. - American victory -- July 15, 1776
• Siege of Fort Watauga, Tennessee -- July 1776
• Battle of Long Island Flats (Holston River) -- July 20, 1776
• Hiwassee, Tennessee -- September 26, 1776.
• Shelby's Tennessee Campaign -- Summer 1779.
• Boyd's Creek (Sevierville, Tennessee) -- December 16, 1780
• Fort Nashborough (Nashville, Tennessee) -- April 2, 1781

• Skirmish at Flatbush, Long Island, New York -- August 23, 1776
• Battle of Long Island, New York (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) – British drive Patriots from Long Island, Patriot casualties: 2,179 killed, wounded or captured; British casualties: 64 killed, 293 wounded, 31 missing. British control Port of New York; biggest battle of war in terms of troop deployment. - British victory -- August 27, 1776
• Attack of "The American Turtle" one-man submarine against HMS "Eagle", New York harbor -- September 6, 1776
• Landing at Kip's Bay, New York – British amphibious landing on the eastern shore of present-day Manhattan. Capture of New York City on lower half of Manhattan. The northern advance stopped at the Inclenberg (now Murray Hill, a rise west of Kip's Bay), just west of the present Lexington Avenue. -- September 15, 1776
• Battle of Harlem Heights, New York (now the Morningside Heights and west Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan) - Patriots repulse British attack on upper Manhattan - American victory -– September 16, 1776
• Battle of Valcour Island, Lake Champlain (naval battle) – British tactical victory but victory comes too late to press the offensive against the Hudson valley -- October 11, 1776
• Battle of Mamaroneck, New York -- Westchester County, New York. Patriot casualties: 15 killed or wounded; British casualties: 30 killed or wounded, 36 captured. - British tactical victory; Patriot surprise attack on British camp driven off - October 22, 1776
• Battle of White Plains, New York –- Patriot casualties: 50-150+ killed, 150+ wounded, 1 missing, 16 captured; British casualties: 47 killed, 182 wounded, 4 missing. Washington withdrew his army into the hills to the north on the night of October 31, establishing a camp near North Castle. Howe chose not to follow, instead attempting without success to draw Washington out. On November 5, Howe turned his army south to finish evicting Continental Army troops from Manhattan, a task he accomplished with the November 16 Battle of Fort Washington. - British victory -- October 28, 1776
• Battle of Fort Cumberland (near Sackville, then Nova Scotia, now Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, Canada) – British victory -- November 10–29, 1776
• Battle of Fort Washington, New York – British capture 3,000 Patriots on Manhattan in one of the most devastating Patriot defeats of the war. - British victory -- November 16, 1776
• Battle of Fort Lee - Atop a bluff of the Hudson Palisades overlooking Burdett's Landing, known as Mount Constitution, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Marked the successful invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army -- British victory. - November 20, 1776
• Ambush of Geary (near Ringoes in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey) – British Cornet Francis Geary killed; among actions which resulted in reduced British patrols -- December 14, 1776
• Battle of Iron Works Hill (also known as the Battle of Mount Holly, New Jersey) – British tactical victory; American strategic victory -- December 22–23, 1776
• Battle of Trenton, New Jersey – American casualties: 2 dead from exposure, 5 wounded; British casualties: 22 killed, 83 wounded, 800–900 captured. - American victory -- December 26, 1776

1777

• Second Battle of Trenton, New Jersey (Battle of the Assunpink Creek) – American victory -- January 2, 1777
• Battle of Princeton; Stony Creek, New Jersey – American victory -- January 3, 1777
• Forage War, New Jersey – Militarily indecisive; American boost in morale -- January – March, 1777 (Winter) - Historian David Hackett Fischer compiled a list that he describes as "incomplete", consisting of 58 actions that occurred between January 4 and March 21, 1777.

• Elizabethtown, New Jersey (now Elizabeth, New Jersey)- British cavalry patrol ambushed by militia; one trooper killed, one wounded -- January 5 – 6, 1777
• Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey (Springfield, New Jersey) - British evacuation of Elizabethtown and American capture of 100 soldiers, the baggage trains of two regiments, and food supplies – January 7, 1777
• Chatham, New Jersey – Virginia Continentals captured 70 Highlanders together with their wagons -- January 10, 1777
• Union Township, Union County, New Jersey (Connecticut Farms) - 300 New Jersey militia attacked 100 German foragers, killed one, captured 70 -- January 15, 1777
• Bonhamtown, New Jersey – Americans kill 21 and wound 30 or 40; American casualties unknown - January 16, 1777
• Battle of Millstone (also known as the Battle of Van Nest's Mill) Weston, New Jersey (now near Manville, New Jersey) – Tactical American victory; British lost 25 casualties, 12 prisoners, 43 wagons, 104 horses, 115 cattle and about 60 sheep; Americans admitted losses of four or five men -- January 20, 1777.
• Woodbridge Township, New Jersey (Woodbridge, New Jersey) – 200 New Jersey Continentals killed 7 and wounded 12 British; Americans suffered two men wounded -- January 23, 1777
• Drake's Farm (near Metuchen, New Jersey) – Americans admitted 30 to 40 casualties claiming to have killed 36 British and wounded 100; British massacred 7 wounded Americans after tactical American withdrawal -- February 1, 1777
• Quibbletown, New Jersey - Americans would not engage large British force but attacked the flanks and rear as the British retreated to New Brunswick; British foraged in New York thereafter but other skirmishes in area February 20, March 8, and April 4 - February 8, 1777
• Spanktown, New Jersey (now Rahway, New Jersey) - For losses of 5 killed and 9 wounded, Americans claimed to have inflicted 100 casualties; British admitted losing 69 killed and wounded and 6 missing -- February 23, 1777

• Battle of Punk Hill, New Jersey (near Bonhamtown, New Jersey) - Minor American victory -- No Patriot losses; British losses 4 killed, 3 captured, unknown wounded; Insufficient Patriot men to continue pursuit; unknown that Howe was an Bonhamtown - March 8, 1777
• Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey – Surprise attack by British and Hessian forces against Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey. The British objective of capturing the entire garrison was not met, prisoners were taken. The U.S. commander, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, left in great haste and most of the 500-man garrison escaped; between 40 and 120 casualties and captured, 7 British wounded. - British victory -- April 13, 1777
• Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut (also known as the Danbury Raid) – Tactical British victory; Strategic American victory, raid increased support in the area for the Patriot cause; battle and a series of skirmishes; on April 25, British attacked Danbury, where they destroyed Continental Army supplies after chasing off a small garrison. On April 27, in two attacks, Americans mortally wounded British General Wooster; British drove away American forces under Benedict Arnold at Ridgefield. -- April 27, 1777
• Skirmish (near modern Westport, Connecticut) - Americans harass British force moving south to their ships but force was scattered by artillery and bayonet charge - tactical British victory -- April 28, 1777
• Battle of Thomas Creek (near the mouth of Thomas Creek in northern East Florida) – Ambush of a small force of Georgia militia cavalry by a mixed force of British Army, Loyalist militia, and Indians; only major engagement in the second of three failed attempts by American forces to invade East Florida in the early years of the war; American casualties: 4–8 killed, 9 wounded, 31–34 captives (of whom many were later killed); no British casualties reported - British victory -- May 17, 1777
• Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor, New York) – Patriots attack foraging party; Six Loyalists were killed and 90 captured while the Americans suffered no casualties - American victory -- May 24, 1777
• St. John River expedition -- A small number of militia commanded by John Allan occupied the small settlement at the mouth of the Saint John River (present-day Saint John, New Brunswick, then part of Sunbury County, Nova Scotia) in June 1777. Almost a month later, under command of Brigade Major Studholme and Colonel Francklin, British forces successfully drove off the occupying Americans, forcing Allan to make a difficult overland journey back to Machias, Maine; last significant American land-based assault on Nova Scotia during the war. -- British victory -- June 2 - June 30, 1777
• Battle of Short Hills, Scotch Plains and Edison, New Jersey (also known as the Battle of Metuchen Meetinghouse, Battle of Flat Hills, Battle of Westfield) (no fighting near modern Short Hills, New Jersey) – American casualties: Killed and wounded unknown 70 captured; British casualties: 5 killed, 30 wounded; Washington is able to retreat from large force to high ground. - Tactical British victory; Strategic American victory -- June 26, 1777
• Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) (Second Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, New York - June 30 - July 7, 1777) - British victory –- July 5 – 6, 1777
• Battle of Hubbardton (then in the disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (now Vermont)) – Indecisive; Casualties about equal but British take about 240 prisoners, scatter American force -- July 7, 1777
• Battle of Fort Anne (or Fort Ann), New York – British victory -- July 8, 1777
• Siege of Fort Stanwix, New York (also known at the time as Fort Schuyler) – American victory -- August 2 – 23, 1777
• Battle of Oriskany, near Oriskany, New York; in present-day Whitestown / Rome, Oneida County, New York – American strategic victory; British/Indian tactical victory - August 6, 1777
• Battle of Machias (1777); Second Battle of Machias, Massachusetts (now Maine) – The outcome of the raid was disputed. Collier claimed that the action was successful in destroying military stores for an attack on Fort Cumberland (although such stores had not been delivered to Machias), while the defenders claimed that they had successfully prevented the capture of Machias and driven off the British -- August 13 – 14, 1777
• Battle of Bennington, Walloomsac, New York (about 10 miles from present day Bennington, Vermont) – Major American victory -- August 16, 1777
• Battle of Staten Island, New York – British tactical victory; Strategically unimportant -- August 22, 1777
• Battle of Setauket, Long Island, New York – British victory -- August 22, 1777
• First Siege of Fort Henry (1777), Virginia (near present day Wheeling, West Virginia) – American militia repulse Indian attack -- September 1, 1777 or September 21, 1777
• Battle of Cooch's Bridge, Delaware (Battle of Iron Hill) – British victory -- September 3, 1777
• Battle of Brandywine, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (Battle of Brandywine Creek) -– British victory -- September 11, 1777
• Battle of the Clouds (also known as the Battle of Warren, Battle of Whitehorse Tavern, or the Battle of Goshen) area around present day Malvern, Pennsylvania - Inconclusive: Before the two armies could fully engage, a torrential downpour ensued. Significantly outnumbered, and with tens of thousands of cartridges ruined by the rain, Washington opted for a tactical retreat. Bogged down by rain and mud, the British allowed Washington and his army to withdraw. -– September 16, 1777
• First Saratoga, New York: Battle of Freeman's Farm (September 19) (known as The Turning Point of the War) - Pyrrhic British victory – September 19, 1777
• Battle of Paoli, Pennsylvania (also known as the Battle of Paoli Tavern or the Paoli Massacre) area around present-day Malvern, Pennsylvania - British victory –- September 21, 1777
• British capture Philadelphia unopposed -- September 26, 1777.
• Siege of Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania (or or Siege of Mud Island Fort) (Siege of Philadelphia) – British victory -- September 26 – November 15, 1777
• British capture of Fort Billingsport on the Delaware River. - William Bradford, the fort's commander, with only 112 men on hand after desertions, spiked the guns, burned the barracks, and evacuated the fort as the British approached. -- October 4, 1777.
• Battle of Germantown – British victory -- October 4, 1777
• Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, near West Point, New York (Hudson Highlands ("The Highlands")) – British tactical victory: two forts destroyed -- October 6, 1777
• Battle of Second Saratoga: Battle of Bemis Heights (October 7) (also known as the Second Battle of Freeman's Farm) – Decisive American victory -- October 7, 1777
• Battle of Red Bank (also known as the Battle of Fort Mercer), New Jersey (Siege of Philadelphia) – American victory -- October 22, 1777
• Siege of Fort Mifflin - British bombardment and American abandonment of Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania - British victory -- November 10 – 15, 1777
• American withdrawal from Fort Mercer, New Jersey -- November 18 or 20, 1777
• Battle of Gloucester, New Jersey (1777) – American victory -- November 25, 1777
• Battle of White Marsh (or Battle of Edge Hill) area around Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania – Strategic American victory -- December 5–8, 1777
• Battle of Matson's Ford, Pennsylvania (present-day Conshohocken and West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) - British victory -– December 11, 1777
• Valley Forge (winter camp) Baron von Steuben trains American troops. -- Winter 1777-1778

1778

• British Isles (War at Sea)

• First Battle of Ushant (British v. French), near French island at mouth of English Channel - Indecisive -- July 27, 1778
• John Paul Jones's Expedition:

• Whitehaven, Cumberland, England (Landing party from American sloop Ranger, Captain John Paul Jones burned a merchant ship and raided he Scottish seashore mansion of the Earl of Selkirk, {near Kirkcudbrigh), St. Mary's Island -- April 22 – 23, 1778
• North Channel Naval Duel (a single-ship action between the United States Continental Navy sloop of war Ranger (Captain John Paul Jones) and the British Royal Navy sloop of war Drake (Captain George Burdon) on the evening of 24 April 1778. Fought in the North Channel, separating Ireland from Scotland - American victory – April 24, 1778
• Battle of Flamborough Head - HMS "Serapis" v. "Bonhomme Richard" - American tactical victory -- September 23, 1779

• Battles of the Caribbean, 1778 – 1782

• Second Battle of Nassau, Yarmouth (naval battle), Martinique, St. Lucia, Tobago, St. Kitts, Nevis, Fort St. Juan de Nicaragua, Battle of the Saints (naval battle); Fort San Fernando de Omoa; Black River Fort, Honduras

• Battle off Barbados (frigate USS "Randolph" sunk by British ship-of-the-line HMS "Yarmouth") -– March 7, 1778
• France-American Treaties of Alliance February 6, 1778.
• Battle of Quinton's Bridge (bridge across Alloway Creek in Salem County, New Jersey; present-day Quinton Township, New Jersey) - Tactical British victory; strategically inconsequential –- March 18, 1778
• General William Howe sent a letter of resignation to London in October 1777 after Saratoga, complaining that he had been inadequately supported in that year's campaigns. He was finally notified in April 1778 that his resignation was accepted. General Henry Clinton was formally appointed as commander-in-chief of the British Army in America on February 4, 1778. Word of this did not arrive until April, and Clinton assumed command in Philadelphia in May 1778 and was told to return to New York due to the new threat from the French.
• Battle of Crooked Billet, near the Crooked Billet Tavern (present-day Hatboro, Pennsylvania) – British victory -- May 1, 1778
• Battle of Barren Hill (present-day Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania) Lafayette narrowly escapes ambush - British victory -– May 20, 1778
• Siege of Fort Randolph - One week unsuccessful Native American siege of fort in Virginia, now Point Pleasant, West Virginia -- May 20, 1778
• Mount Hope Bay raids, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island were significantly damaged, and Freetown, Massachusetts (present-day Fall River) was also attacked by British troops) - Successful British raids –- May 25 and 30, 1778
• Battle of Cobleskill, New York ((also known as the Cobleskill massacre) – British victory -- May 30, 1778
• Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (also known as Battle of Monmouth Courthouse) – Inconclusive; British march to Sandy Hook -- June 28, 1778
• Battle of Alligator Bridge, British East Florida - British victory –- June 30, 1778
• Wyoming Massacre, Wyoming, Pennsylvania (Fort Wintermoot, Fort Jenkins, Forty Fort) - British (Loyalists and Iroquois) victory –- July 3, 1778
• Capture of Fort Kaskaskia, Illinois - Americans under George Rogers Clark capture fort and town -- July 4, 1778
• Capture of Cahokia, Illinois - Americans capture town without a fight -- July 5, 1778
• Capture of Vincennes, Indiana - Americans capture town without a fight -- July 20, 1778
• Battle of Ushant (1778) – Naval battle in Bay of Biscay - Indecisive -- July 27, 1778
• Siege of Pondicherry (1778) – British besiege French held fort in India for 10 weeks and succeed -- August 21 – October 19, 1778
• Battle of Rhode Island (also known as Battle of Newport or Battle of Quaker Hill) - Tactically indecisive; British strategic victory (?) –- August 29, 1778
• Grey's raid – Successful British raids against undefended or lightly defended Massachusetts communities of New Bedford, Fairhaven and Martha's Vineyard -- September 5–17, 1778
• Invasion of Dominica – Successful French invasion of the island of Dominica in the British West Indies -- September 7, 1778
• Siege of Boonesborough – Native American siege unsuccessful -- September 7–18, 1778
• Attack on German Flatts (1778) – Mohawk Indian chief and British Loyalist leader Joseph Brant led a force of 150 Iroquois Indians and 300 British Loyalists under Captain William Caldwell in a surprise attack on the area of German Flatts, New York (or German Flats) now known as Herkimer, New York, which was left virtually undefended by Patriot troops prior to the raid. The Indian and Loyalist raiders captured hundreds of head of cattle and sheep before setting fire to every house, barn and mill in German Flats. Despite the complete destruction of the town, including 63 houses, 57 barns, three gristmills and one sawmill, only three men were killed. The day before, four Patriot scouts had run into the Loyalists while on reconnaissance. Though only one, Adam Helmer, survived the encounter, he was able to run the nine miles back to the village to warn the residents. As a result, the vast majority of the town's people were able to seek safety in the area's forts, Herkimer and Dayton, and survived the destruction of their town. - Successful British raid on frontier town (part now Herkimer, NY) -- September 17, 1778
• Baylor Massacre or "Tappan Massacre" – Surprise attack and British victory against the 3rd Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons under the command of Colonel George Baylor in the present-day town of River Vale, New Jersey -- September 27, 1778
• Battle of Edgar's Lane - New York - Patriot Victory - September 30, 1778
• Raid on Unadilla and Onaquaga – Series of military operations by Continental Army forces and New York militia against the Iroquois towns of Unadilla and Onaquaga in upstate New York; Americans destroyed abandoned towns -- October 2–16, 1778
• Battle of Chestnut Neck - British retrieve some and destroy other supplies – Inconclusive -- October 6, 1778
• Affair at Little Egg Harbor or Little Egg Harbor massacre – British surprised an outpost of Pułaski's men, bayoneting the sentry and almost all of the other 30 men while still sleeping. - British victory -- October 16, 1778
• Carleton's Raid (1778) – Parties of British raiders attacked Reymond's Mill on Beaver Creek in New York and Middlebury and New Haven on Otter Creek in the Vermont Republic. On November 7, raiding parties were sent to attack the town of Monkton, Vermont, and to Moore's Mill near Shoreham, Vermont -- October 24, 1778 – November 14, 1778
• Cherry Valley Massacre – Loyalists, British soldiers, Seneca and Mohawks descended on Cherry Valley, whose defenders, despite warnings, were unprepared for the attack; the Seneca in particular targeted non-combatants, and reports state that 30 such individuals were slain, in addition to a number of armed defenders; British victory -- November 11, 1778
• Battle of St. Lucia (naval battle) – Seven British ships-of-the-line defeat 12 French ships-of-the-line off the island of St. Lucia in the West Indies -- December 15, 1778
• Recapture of Vincennes (Fort Sackville), Indiana by British governor Henry Hamilton - Small American garrison surrenders to large force -- December 17, 1778
• Capture of St. Lucia or the Battle of Morne de la Vierge – British land on St. Lucia, defeat reinforcements for garrison, island surrendered; British victory -- December 18–28, 1778
• Capture of Savannah or First Battle of Savannah – First move in British southern strategy; British captured a large portion of Major General Robert Howe's army, and drove the remnants to retreat into South Carolina. - British victory -- December 29, 1778

• Battles of the Caribbean, 1778 – 1782

• Second Battle of Nassau, Yarmouth (naval battle), Martinique, St. Lucia, Tobago, St. Kitts, Nevis, Fort St. Juan de Nicaragua, Battle of the Saints (naval battle); Fort San Fernando de Omoa; Black River Fort, Honduras

1779

• Battle of Beaufort (also known as the Battle of Port Royal Island) – Strategically inconsequential American victory; British withdrew first and suffered heavier casualties in effort to seize Port Royal Island -- February 3, 1779
• Battle of Van Creek - Engagement near Elberton, Georgia - Patriot militia sought to stop a Loyalist force from crossing the Savannah River to rendezvous with a British force which had recently captured Augusta, Georgia. The Loyalist force was able to flank and defeat the Patriot militia but about 100 Loyalists deserted; led to Battle of Kettle Creek 3 days later. - Loyalist victory - February 11, 1779
• Battle of Kettle Creek - In Wilkes County, Georgia; A militia force of Patriots decisively defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta; only 270 Loyalists out of original 600 to possibly as many as 950 reached Augusta – American victory -- February 14, 1779
• Siege of Fort Laurens, Ohio - Unsuccessful British siege of American fort -- February 22, 1779 - mid-March 1779
• Battle of Vincennes, Indiana (Fort Sackville); Siege of Fort Vincennes – Decisive American victory for George Rogers Clark's patriot militia over British and Indian allies -- February 23–25, 1779
• Battle of Brier Creek (also known as Briar Creek) – British victory near the confluence of Brier Creek with the Savannah River in eastern Georgia. A Patriot force , mainly militia from North Carolina and Georgia was surprised, suffering significant casualties, reversing positive effect of Battle of Kettle Creek on morale -- March 3, 1779
• Siege of Newport or Battle of Rhode Island, also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill - Continental Army and militia forces under General John Sullivan were withdrawing to the northern part of Aquidneck Island after abandoning their siege of Newport, Rhode Island, when the British forces in Newport sortied, supported by recently arrived Royal Navy ships, and attacked the retreating Americans. The battle ended inconclusively, but the Continental forces afterward withdrew to the mainland. -- August 29, 1778
• Battle of Chillicothe - Colonel John Bowman of the Kentucky County militia, accompanied by Benjamin Logan and Levi Todd, led between 160 and 300 militiamen against the Shawnee town of Chillicothe. Bowman and Logan attacked the town from two sides but were eventually repulsed. Unable to draw the Shawnee from their single blockhouse, Bowman burned much of the town and left with between 30 to 300 horses valued at $32,000. –- May, 1779
• Chesapeake raid – British naval forces under Commodore Sir George Collier and land forces led by Major General Edward Mathew raided economic and military targets up and down the Chesapeake Bay. The speed with which the British moved caught many of the bay's communities by surprise, and there was no effective resistance. The British destroyed economically important supplies of tobacco and coal, and destroyed naval ships, port facilities, and storehouses full of military supplies. -- May 10–24, 1779
• Armada of 1779 - A large joint French and Spanish fleet intended, with the aid of a feint by the American Continental Navy, to facilitate an invasion of Britain, as part of the wider American War of Independence, and in application of the Franco-American alliance. The initial Franco-Spanish plan was to seize the Isle of Wight, and then capture the British naval base of Portsmouth which France planned to retain after the war. Ultimately no fleet actions were fought in the Channel and the French and Spanish invasion never materialized. Strategic British victory. –- June – September, 1779
• Sullivan Expedition – also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, led by Major General John Sullivan and Brigadier General James Clinton was an extended systematic military campaign against Loyalists ("Tories") and the four Amerindian nations of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War. It occurred mainly in the lands of the Iroquois Confederacy, which is today the heartland of New York State. The campaign only had one major battle, at Newtown (since the tribes evacuated ahead of the large military force) along the Chemung River in western New York, the expedition severely damaged the Iroquois nations' economies by burning their crops, villages, and chattels, thus ruining the Iroquois technological infrastructure and breaking the strength of the Iroquois Confederacy. -- June – October, 1779
• Capture of Saint Vincent – A French force commanded by Charles Marie de Trolong du Rumain, landed on the West Indies isle of Saint Vincent, and quickly took over much of the British-controlled part of the island, assisted by the local Black Caribs who held the northern part of the island. British Governor Valentine Morris and military commander Lieutenant Colonel George Etherington disagreed on how to react, and ended up surrendering without significant resistance. - French victory -- June 16–18, 1779
• Battle of Stono Ferry – Fought near Charleston, South Carolina. The rear guard from a British expedition retreating from an aborted attempt to take Charleston held off an assault by poorly trained militia forces under American General Benjamin Lincoln. - British victory -- June 20, 1779
• Great Siege of Gibraltar – Unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American War of Independence. This was the largest action fought during the war in terms of numbers, particularly the Grand Assault of 18 September 1782. Siege lasted three years and seven months. - British victory -- June 24, 1779 – February 7, 1783
• Capture of Grenada (1779) - An amphibious expedition in July 1779 by French forces of the comte D'Estaing captured the British-held West Indies island of Grenada during the American War of Independence. Governor Lord Macartney opened negotiations to surrender. Admiral d'Estaing insisted on adoption of the harsh terms he had written. Macartney chose instead to surrender unconditionally. D'Estaing thereafter permitted his forces to loot the town, and Macartney was sent to France as a prisoner of war. French forces were reembarked on the fleet on 5 July when word arrived that a British fleet under Admiral John Byron was approaching. The two fleets battled the next day, with the French severely damaging several British ships. Both fleets then returned to their bases. Grenada was returned to British control at the end of the war, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris. – French victory. -- July 2, 1779
• Tryon's raid – British Major General William Tryon and 2,600 men embarked onto a Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral George Collier, and raided the Connecticut ports of New Haven (as well as East Haven and Black Rock Fort) on July 5, 1779, Burning of Fairfield (1779) or Battle of Fairfield on July 7, 1779, and the Battle of Norwalk (also Battle of West Rocks or Battle of the Rocks), a series of skirmishes between American and British forces during Tryon's raid starting July 10, 1779 with the main battle Battle of Norwalk in Norwalk, Connecticut on July 12, 1779. Military and public stores, supply houses, and ships were destroyed, as were private homes, churches, and other public buildings. The raids were ineffectually resisted by militia forces. The raid failed to draw the Continental Army into an engagement on poor terrain and had no long-term strategic impact. -- July 5–14, 1779
• Battle of Grenada – Battle between the British Royal Navy and the French Navy, just off the coast of Grenada. The British fleet of Admiral John Byron had sailed in an attempt to relieve Grenada, which the French forces of the Comte D'Estaing had just captured. Incorrectly believing he had numerical superiority, Byron ordered a general chase to attack the French as they left their anchorage at Grenada. Because of the disorganized attack and the French superiority, the British fleet was badly mauled in the encounter, although no ships were lost. D'Estaing did not follow up with further attacks, squandering any tactical advantage the battle gave him. - French victory -- July 6, 1779
• Battle of Stony Point – In a well planned and executed nighttime attack, a highly trained select group of George Washington's Continental Army troops under the command of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeated British troops in quick and daring assault on their outpost in Stony Point, New York, approximately 30 miles north of New York City. The British suffered heavy losses in a battle that served as a huge victory in terms of morale for the Continental Army. While the fort was ordered evacuated quickly after the battle by General Washington, this key crossing site was used later in the war by units of the Continental Army to cross the Hudson River on their way to victory over the British. - American victory -- July 16, 1779
• Battle of Minisink – The only major skirmish of the Revolutionary War fought in the northern Delaware Valley. Decisive British victory, as the colonial militia was hastily assembled, ill-equipped, and inexperienced. - British (Iroquois and Loyalist) victory -- July 22, 1779
• Penobscot Expedition - The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 smaller support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779 for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying a ground expeditionary force of more than 1,000 colonial Marines and militiamen and a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Colonel Paul Revere with the goal of reclaiming control of what is now mid-coast Maine from the British who had seized it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland. It was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place both on land and at sea in and around the mouth of the Penobscot and Majabigwaduce Rivers at what is today Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August of 1779. The Americans landed troops in late July and attempted to establish a siege of Fort George in a series of actions that were seriously hampered by disagreements over control of the expedition between land forces commander Brigadier General Solomon Lovell and the expedition's overall commander, Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, who was subsequently dismissed from the Navy for ineptness and failure to effectively prosecute the mission. For almost three weeks General McLean held off the assault until a British relief fleet under the command of Sir George Collier arrived from New York on August 13, driving the American fleet to total self-destruction up the Penobscot River. The survivors of the American expedition were forced to make an overland journey back to more populated parts of Massachusetts with minimal food and armament. - British victory -- July 24 – August 29, 1779
• Battle of Paulus Hook (Stony Point and Paulus Hook) – Major Light Horse Harry Lee launched a nighttime raid on the British-controlled fort in what is today downtown Jersey City. The Americans surprised the British, taking 158 prisoners, and withdrew with the approach of daylight. Despite retaining the fort and its cannons, the British lost much of their control over New Jersey. - American victory -- August 19, 1779
• Battle of Newtown, also known as the Battle of Chemung - The only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive intended to end the threat of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War. John Butler and Joseph Brant did not want to make a stand at Newtown, but proposed instead to harass the enemy on the march, but they were overruled by Sayenqueraghta and other Indian chiefs. The battle took place at the foot of a hill along the Chemung River just outside of what is now Elmira, New York. - American victory -- August 29, 1779
• Broadhead's Expedition; Chemung Massacre - Part of Sullivan's Expedition - A concurrent expedition undertaken by Colonel Daniel Brodhead left Fort Pitt on August 14, 1779, with a contingent of 600 men, regulars of his 8th Pennsylvania Regiment and militia, marching up the Allegheny River into the Seneca and Munsee country of northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York. Since most native warriors were away to confront Sullivan's army, Brodhead met little resistance and destroyed about 10 villages, including Conewango. Although initial plans called for Brodhead to eventually link up with Sullivan at Chenussio for an attack against Fort Niagara, Brodhead turned back after destroying villages near modern day Salamanca, New York, never linking up with the main force. Washington's letters indicate that the cross-country trek east to the Finger Lakes region was considered too dangerous, limiting this smaller expedition to a raid north. - American victory -- August - September 1779
• Capture of Fort Bute – The capture of the fort signalled the opening of Spanish intervention in the American Revolutionary War on the side of France and the United States. Mustering an ad hoc army of Spanish regulars, Acadian militia, and native levies under Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana stormed and captured the small British frontier post on Bayou Manchac about 115 miles (185 km) up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. After six days, Galvez moved to Baton Rouge, which fell after a short siege on September 21. The terms of capitulation agreed to by Dickson at Baton Rouge secured for Gálvez the surrender of the remaining British outposts on the Mississippi River. - Spanish victory -- September 7, 1779
• Battle of Lake Pontchartrain - The Continental Navy schooner USS Morris captured the British schooner HMS West Florida, at the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain which was then in the British province of West Florida. West Florida became the Spanish Gálveztown (brig sloop). -- American victory. – September 10, 1779
• Boyd and Parker ambush - Engagement in Groveland, New York on September 13, 1779. A scout group of the Sullivan Expedition was ambushed and most were killed or captured by Loyalists and their Seneca Indian allies. Fifteen of Boyd’s men were killed, eight escaped, while Lt. Thomas Boyd and Sgt. Michael Parker were captured. Estimates from contemporary Journals is that the Boyd party numbered 29 of whom 17 were killed; 5 returned and 7 escaped. -- British Victory - September 13, 1779
• Action of 14 September 1779 - Minor naval engagement between a British Royal Naval frigate HMS Pearl and a Spanish frigate Santa Mónica off the Azores during the Anglo-Spanish War. After fighting for two hours, the Santa Mónica becoming severely damaged and having had 38 men killed and 45 wounded, struck her colors. -- British Victory – September 14, 1779
• Capture of Cayo Cocina - (Also known as Saint George's Caye) was the result of a Spanish military operation on 15 September 1779 against a British settlement on Saint George's Caye, just off the coast of present-day Belize. The Spaniards removed the entire population (140 Baymen along with 250 of their slaves), forced them to march overland from Bacalar to Mérida, and then transported them by sea to Havana. – September 15, 1779
• Siege of Savannah – The Siege of Savannah or the Second Battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in 1779. The year before, the city of Savannah, Georgia, had been captured by a British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell. The siege itself consisted of a joint Franco-American attempt to retake Savannah, from September 16 to October 18, 1779. On October 9 a major assault against the British siege works failed. During the attack, Polish nobleman Count Casimir Pułaski, leading the combined cavalry forces on the American side, was mortally wounded. With the failure of the joint American-French attack, the siege failed, and the British remained in control of Savannah until July 1782, near the end of the war. -- British victory - September 16 – October 18, 1779
• Savannah; 1st British Southern Expedition

• 1st Florida Expedition
• 2nd Florida Expedition
• 3rd Florida Expedition
• Fort McIntosh
• Fort Howe
• Fort Sunbury
• Fort Morris
• Alligator Creek
• Trout River

• Battle of Baton Rouge (1779) - Bernardo de Gálvez, the colonial Governor of Spanish Louisiana, captured Fort Bute on September 7, 1781. He then moved to Baton Rouge and captured it after a brief siege. Gálvez demanded and was granted terms that included the capitulation of the 80 regular infantry at Fort Panmure (modern Natchez, Mississippi), a well-fortified position that would have been difficult for Gálvez to take militarily. Dickson surrendered 375 regular troops the next day; Gálvez had Dickson's militia disarmed and sent home. The victory at Baton Rouge cleared the Mississippi River estuary entirely of British forces and put the lower reaches of the river firmly under Spanish control. -- Spanish victory – September 20–21, 1779
• Battle of Flamborough Head - Naval battle that took place on 23 September 1779, in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between an American Continental Navy squadron led by John Paul Jones and the two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy. It became one of the most celebrated naval actions of the American War of Independence despite its relatively small size and considerable dispute over what had actually occurred. –- Franco-American tactical victory; strategic draw - September 23, 1779
• Teantontalago Operation - The final operation of Sullivan's Expedition. Sullivan sent a portion of Clinton's brigade directly back to winter quarters by way of Fort Stanwix, under Colonel Peter Gansevoort of the 3rd New York Regiment. Two days after leaving Stanwix, near their origination point of Schenectady, the detachment stopped at Teantontalago, the "Lower Mohawk Castle" (also known as Thienderego, Tionondorage and Tiononderoga) and carried out orders to arrest every male Mohawk. - American victory -- September 27, 1779
• Action of 6 October 1779 -- Naval battle between the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Quebec and the frigate Surveillante of the French Navy. The battle ended in a French victory when Quebec was destroyed by an explosion.
• Battle of San Fernando de Omoa - Short siege and battle between British and Spanish forces fought not long after Spain entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side. On 16 October 1779, following a brief attempt at siege, a force of 150 British soldiers and seamen assaulted and captured the fortifications and 365-man garrison at San Fernando de Omoa in the Captaincy General of Guatemala (now Honduras) on the Gulf of Honduras. The British only held the fort until November 1779. They then withdrew the garrison, which tropical diseases had reduced, and which was under threat of a Spanish counter-attack. -– British victory - October 16 – November 29, 1779
• Action of 11 November 1779 - Naval engagement off Portugal between the British Royal Naval frigate HMS Tartar and the Spanish frigate Santa Margarita off Lisbon during the Anglo-Spanish War. On 11 November, Captain Alexander Graeme in Tartar was off Lisbon when he sighted the Spanish 38-gun frigate Santa Margarita. Tartar, with the wind behind her, caught up and engaged the Spanish vessel. After around two hours of fighting Santa Margarita was almost dismasted when her captain decided to strike her colors. Santa Margarita was added to the Royal Navy under her existing name as a 12-pounder 36-gun frigate. –- British victory - November 11, 1779
• Action of 20 November 1779 - Naval engagement off Portugal between a 50-gun Royal Navy ship, HMS Chatham and an armed Spanish register merchant ship that carried 26 guns, the Nuestra Senora del Buen Consejo, a Peruvian register ship from Lima pierced for 64 guns but mounting only 26 twelve-pounders with a crew of 120 sailors and marines. Consejo had 27 men killed and eight wounded with the rest captured; whilst the Hussar had four killed and ten wounded. -- British victory - November 20, 1779.
• First Battle of Martinique - Also known as Battle of Martinique (1779) - Naval encounter on 18 December 1779 between a British squadron under Admiral Hyde Parker and a French squadron under Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte near the island of Martinique in the West Indies. –- British victory - December 18, 1779 –- British victory - November 2-, 1779

1780

• Action of 8 January 1780 - naval encounter off Cape Finisterre between a British Royal Naval fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney, and a fleet of Spanish merchants sailing in convoy with seven warships of the Caracas Company, under the command of Commodore Don Juan Augustin de Yardi. During the action the entire Spanish convoy was captured. –- British victory - January 8, 1780
• Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) - Naval battle off the southern coast of Portugal on 16 January 1780. A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeated a Spanish squadron under Don Juan de Lángara. The battle is sometimes referred to as the Moonlight Battle because it was unusual for naval battles in the Age of Sail to take place at night. It was also the first major naval victory for the British over their European enemies in the war and proved the value of copper-sheathing the hulls of warships. –- British victory - January 16, 1780
• Battle of Young's House - A skirmish fought outside New York City between British and American forces on February 3, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. A British force attacked and destroyed a Continental Army outpost in Westchester County, New York. - American casualties: 14 killed, 37 wounded, 76 captured. British casualties: 5 killed, 18 wounded. –- British victory - February 3, 1780
• Battle of Van Creek Georgia - loyalist (British) victory -- February 11, 1780.
• San Juan Expedition (1780) - Guatemala - Patriot-Spanish victory -– March – November, 1780
• Battle of Fort Charlotte - West Florida - Patriot-Spanish victory –- March 2–14, 1780
• Siege of Savannah; Spring Hill --
• Siege of Charleston - British recapture South Carolina following battle - British victory –- March 29 – May 12, 1780
• Battle of Monck's Corner - South Carolina - British victory -– April 14, 1780
• Second Battle of Martinique (1780) - Martinique - Patriot victory -– April 17, 1780
• Battle of Lenud's Ferry - South Carolina - British victory –- May 6, 1780
• Bird's invasion of Kentucky - Virginia - British victory–- May 25 – August, 1780
• Battle of St. Louis - Louisiana - Patriot-Spanish victory -– May 25, 1780
• Battle of Waxhaws - South Carolina - British victory –- May 29, 1780

• Stallions
• Cedar Springs
• Brandon's Camp
• Old Fort
• McDowell's Camp
• Flat Rock
• Hunt's Bluff
• Wateree (Wateree Ferry) (Carey's Fort)

• Siege of Fort Panmure (now at Natchez, Mississippi) - British surrender to Spanish -- May 1780 – June 22, 1780
• Battle of Connecticut Farms - New Jersey - British victory -- June 7, 1780
• Battle of Mobley's Meeting House (also sometimes called Gibson's Meeting House) - At Mobley Settlement, Fairfield County, South Carolina, a small body of Whig militia led by Colonel William Bratton surprised a gathering point of Tory militia at Mobley's Meeting House, about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of present-day Winnsboro. Many of the Tories tried to escape by descending a steep embankment; this attempt led to more casualties than were caused by the actual firefight. A few Tories holed up in a blockhouse but were flushed out and defeated. – American victory -- June 8, 1780
• Battle of Ramsour's Mill (modern Lincolnton), North Carolina - Patriot victory -– June 20, 1780
• Battle of Springfield, New Jersey (1780) - Patriot victory –- June 23, 1780
• Williamson's Plantation (Huck's Defeat), York County, South Carolina –- American victory - July 12, 1780
• McDowell's Camp, South Carolina -- July 15, 1780
• Battle of Bull's Ferry - New Jersey - Loyalist (British) victory –- July 20–21, 1780
• Battle of Colson's Mill North Carolina - Patriot victory –- July 21, 1780
• Battle of Rocky Mount, South Carolina Loyalist (British) victory -- July 30, 1780 - August 1, 1780
• Minden raid - Destruction of Minden, New York by Loyalists and Iroquois was the most destructive raid of the civil war in the Mohawk Valley in which over 200 settlers were killed. -- August 2, 1780,
• Battle of Hanging Rock, South Carolina - Patriot victory –- August 6, 1780
• Battle of Pekowee (also known as the Battle of Piqua) Quebec - Patriot victory –- August 8, 1780
• Action of 9 August 1780 -Atlantic - Franco-Spanish victory –- August 9, 1780
• Action of 10 August 1780 - France - British victory –- August 10, 1780
• Action of 13 August 1780 - Ireland - British victory –- August 13, 1780
• Battle of Camden, South Carolina -- British victory -- August 16, 1780
• Battle of Fishing Creek, South Carolina - British victory -- August 18, 1780
• Battle of Musgrove's Mill, South Carolina -- Patriot victory - August 18, 1780
• Battle of Black Mingo - South Carolina - Patriot victory –- August 28, 1780
• Battle Augusta, Georgia -- September 14 – 18, 1780
• Battle of Wahab's Plantation - South Carolina - Patriot victory -– September 20, 1780
• Battle of Charlotte - North Carolina - British victory –- September 26, 1780
• Battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina - halts first British invasion of North Carolina - Patriot victory –- October 7, 1780
• Battle of Shallow Ford, Huntsville, North Carolina - A company of 600 Loyalist militia, led by Colonel Gideon Wright and his brother Captain Hezikiah Wright, were attempting to cross the Yadkin River to join General Cornwallis in Charlotte. Colonel Joseph Williams gathered 300 Patriot militia and laid an ambush at the ford. A short battle followed, with the Patriot forces winning decisively. -- Patriot victory -- October 14, 1780
• Royalton Raid - Vermont - British victory -– October 16, 1780
• Battle of Klock's Field - New York - Patriot victory –- October 19, 1780
• Battle of Tearcoat Swamp South Carolina - Patriot victory -- October 25, 1780
• La Balme's Defeat - Quebec - British-Iroquois victory -– November 5, 1780
• Battle of Fishdam Ford South Carolina - Patriot victory –- November 9, 1780
• Battle of Blackstock's Farm (or Blackstock's Plantation) - South Carolina - Patriot victory -– November 20, 1780

• Blue Savannah
• Fort Wilson

• Battle of Fort St. George (or Fort George) - A Continental Army raiding expedition led by Benjamin Tallmadge against a fortified Loyalist outpost and storage depot at the Manor St. George on the south coast of Long Island was successful; the garrison was surprised, and many provisions and prisoners were taken. –- Patriot victory -- November 23, 1780

1781

• Battle of Jersey - Jersey - British victory -– January 6, 1781
• Battle of Mobile (1781) - West Florida - Patriot-Spanish victory -– January 7, 1781
• Battle of Cowpens (Hannah's Cowpens), South Carolina - Patriot victory -- January 17, 1781
• McCowan's Ford (Cowan's Ford) (Catawba River), North Carolina - British victory -- January 29, 1781 (February 1, 1781)
• Battle of Torrence's Tavern also known as Skirmish at Torrence's Tavern or the Battle at Tarrant's Tavern - Minor engagement of the American Revolutionary War that took place in what was the western portion of Rowan County, North Carolina, approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of the Catawba River near modern-day Mooresville in Iredell County. Ten Americans were killed and one captured. Seven British were killed. Wounded on both sides unknown. American militia was routed. -- British victory - February 1 or February 2, 1781
• Capture of Sint Eustatius - Sint Eustatius - British victory -– February 3, 1781
• Battle of Haw River (Pyle's Defeat), North Carolina -- Patriot victory -- February 25, 1781
• Battle of Wetzell's Mill - North Carolina - British victory –- March 6, 1781
• Battle of Pensacola (1781) (Siege of Pensacola, (West) Florida) - (British, Spanish, French navies) - British surrender posts at Mobile Bay and Pensacola - French, Spanish victory –- March 9 – May 8 (10), 1781
• Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina - British victory (Pyrhhic) -– March 15, 1781
• Battle of Cape Henry - Virginia - Indecisive; British strategic victory -– March 16, 1781
• Siege of Fort Watson - South Carolina - Patriot victory –- April 15 – 23, 1781
• Battle of Porto Praya - Cape Verde - British-French naval battle; Draw –- April 15, 1781
• Battle of Blandford, or Blanford Virginia (also known as the Battle of Petersburg) - About 2,300 British regulars under Brigadier General William Phillips defeated about 1,000 American militia under Major General Baron von Steuben; Americans retreated to Richmond and joined Lafayette's force - British victory -- April 25, 1781
• Battle of Hobkirk's Hill (also known as the Second Battle of Camden, South Carolina) - British victory –- April 25, 1781
• Battle of Fort Royal - Martinique - French victory –- April 29, 1781
• Action of 1 May 1781 - off France - British ship defeats and captures smaller Spanish frigate –- May 1, 1781
• Battle of Fort Motte - South Carolina - Patriot victory –- May 8–12, 1781
• Battle of Pine's Bridge - New York - Loyalist (British) victory -- May 14, 1781
• Siege of Augusta, Georgia - Patriot victory -- May 22, 1781 – June 5 (6), 1781
• Siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina - British victory -- May 22, 1781 – June 19, 1781

• Parker's Ferry
• Quinby's Bridge

• Invasion of Tobago - French victory –- May 24 – June 2, 1781
• Action of 30 May 1781 - Barbary Coast - Two British frigates defeat two Dutch Republic frigages -– May 30, 1781
• Tarleton's Charlottesville Raid, Virginia -- June 4, 1781
• Battle of Spencer's Ordinary Williamsburg, Virginia - British victory -- June 26, 1781
• Francisco's Fight - Virginia at Capt. Benjamin Ward's Plantation, “West Creek”, present-day Nottoway County, Virginia- Patriot victory in reported fight of Peter Francisco versus nine British soldiers of Tarleton's dragoons, 3 killed, others including wounded driven off -- only documented by Francisco –- July 1781
• Battle of Green Spring - Virginia - British victory -- July 6, 1781

  Norfolk, Virginia

  Suffolk, Virginia

  Richmond, Virginia

  Williamsburg, Virginia

• Naval battle off Louisbourg (Naval battle off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia) -- Two French warships capture two British warships and three merchantmen that were part of a larger convoy; French: 6 killed, 34 wounded; British: about 17 killed, 48 wounded - French=Patriot victory-– July 21, 1781
• Battle of the House in the Horseshoe - Minor engagement between Loyalist militia under the command of David Fanning and patriot militia under the command of Phillip Alston, the owner of the House in the Horseshoe, Moore County, NC -- British victory - July 29 (most accepted) or August 5, 1781
• Battle of Dogger Bank (August 3, 1781) - North Sea - Indecisive naval battle between 13 British and 13 Dutch ships; British strategic victory - Dutch fleet sits out rest of war, Dutch merchant trade crippled. -– August 5, 1781
• Invasion of Minorca, 1781 Minorca - French-Spanish victory –- August 19, 1781 – February 5, 1782
• Lochry's Defeat - then Quebec, now near Aurora, Indiana - British-Iroquois victory, Brant's Mohawks killed or captured 105 Pennsylvania minitiamen without casualties. –- August 24, 1781
• Capture of USS Trumbull - British victory –- August 29, 1781
• Battle off Cape Ann, Massachusetts -- HMS Chatham captured the French frigate Magicienne - British victory -- September 2, 1781
• The Virginia Capes ("The Capes"), Virginia (Battle of the Chesapeake) (offshore naval battle) - French victory –- September 5 – 8, 1781
• Battle of Groton Heights (also known as the Battle of Fort Griswold) New London, Connecticut - British victory –- September 6, 1781
• Capture of HMS Savage by American privateer Congress off Charleston, South Carolina - Patriot victory -- September 6, 1781
• Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina - British victory -– September 8, 1781
• Battle of Lindley's Mill - North Carolina - Patriot victory –- September 13, 1781
• Long Run Massacre - British-Iroquois victory –- September 13, 1781
• Siege of Yorktown, Virginia - Decisive Patriot victory -- September 28 – October 18, 1781

• Wormeley Creek -- September 29, 1781
• Fusilier's Redoubt -- September 29, 1781

• Battle of Fort Slongo New York -- Patriot victory –- October 3, 1781

• Battle of Gloucester Point (Battle of the Hook) -- October 3, 1781
• Fusilier's Redoubt - French diversionary attack -- October 6, 1781
• Fusilier's Redoubt, Gloucester Point diversionary attacks -- October 14, 1781
• Redoubt Number 9 and Redoubt Number 10 -- October 14, 1781
• British attack on American line -- October 16, 1781
• Cornwallis's attempt to evacuate to Gloucester Point fails -- October 16, 1781
• Surrender at Yorktown French-Patriot victory -- October 19, 1781

• Siege of Negapatam - India - British victory -– October 21 – November 11, 1781
• Battle of Johnstown -– The Battle of Johnstown, New York was one of the last battles in the Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War, with approximately 1400 engaged. Local American forces, led by Colonel Marinus Willett of Johnstown, ultimately put the British forces under the command of Major John Ross of the King's Royal Regiment of New York and Captain Walter Butler of Butler's Rangers to flight. This was the first time so many British regular army troops participated in a border raid in this area. The British retreated northwards and Marinus Willett marched to German Flatts to cut them off. - American victory -- October 25, 1781
• Second Battle of Ushant (1781) - Bay of Biscay - British victory –- December 12, 1781

1782

• Battle of Videau's Bridge - Near Charleston, South Carolina. The British routed an American force opposing a foraging expedition they sent from Charleston. The British claimed to kill 57 and capture 20 Americans. -- British victory - January 2, 1782
• Siege of Brimstone Hill - St. Christopher - French-Patriot victory – January 11 – February 13, 1782
• Capture of Trincomalee – Ceylon - British victory - January 11, 1782

• Capture of Demerara and Essequibo – French-Patriot victory - January 22 – February 5, 1782
• Battle of Saint Kitts – St. Christopher - British victory - January 25–26, 1782
• Battle of Sadras – India - French victory -- February 17, 1782
• Capture of Montserrat – Montserrat - French victory - February 22, 1782
• Battle of Wambaw - Near Charleston, South Carolina. - The British engaged and defeated an American force of dragoons and infantry near Charleston. The British claimed to kill 40 and capture 4 Americans, while the Americans claimed not to know their losses apart from 35 horses. -- British victory - February 24, 1782.
• Gnadenhütten massacre, Gnadenhutten, Ohio - (also known as the Moravian massacre) - Colonial American militia from Pennsylvania kill 96 Christian Lenape (Delaware) – March 8, 1782
• Battle of Roatán – Guatemala - Patriot-Spanish victory - March 16, 1782
• Action of 16 March 1782 – Strait of Gibraltar - British victory - March 16, 1782
• Battle of Little Mountain – Virginia - British-Iroquois victory - March 22, 1782
• Battle of Delaware Bay (Battle of Cape May) near Cape May, New Jersey –- British squadron of three vessels attacked three American privateers, which were escorting a fleet of merchantmen -- American victory over a superior British force -- April 8, 1782
• Battle of the Saintes – Dominica - British victory -- April 9–12, 1782
• Battle of Providien – Ceylon - French victory -- April 12, 1782
• Battle of the Black River – Guatemala - British victory -April 13 – August 23, 1782
• Battle of the Mona Passage – Mona passage - British victory -- April 19, 1782
• Action of 20–21 April 1782 - Bay of Biscay - British victory – April 20–21, 1782
• Capture of the Bahamas (1782) – Bahamas - Spanish-Patriot victory - May 6, 1782
• Crawford expedition – Quebec - British-Iroquois victory - May 25 – June 12, 1782
• Naval battle off Halifax - Nova Scotia –- British HMS Observer defeats and captures American privateer Jack -- May 28–29, 1782
• Sandusky, Ohio -- June 4 – 5, 1782 (Western Territories Campaign)
• Olentangy, Ohio – June 6, 1782 (Western Territories Campaign)
• Raid on Chester - Chester, Nova Scotia - British victory - June 30, 1782
• Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782) –- US privateer, Captain Noah Stoddard of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and four other privateer vessels attacked the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on July 1, 1782; Stoddard led approximately 170 US privateers in four heavily armed vessels and overpowered Lunenburg’s defense, capturing the blockhouses and burning the house of Major Dettlieb Christopher Jessen; looted the settlement, kept the militia at bay and took three prisoners, including Colonel John Creighton, who were later released from Boston -- July 1, 1782
• Battle of Negapatam (1782) – Ceylon - British victory -- July 6, 1782
• Battle of Piqua – August 8, 1782
• Hudson Bay Expedition –- Rupert's Land -Series of military raids on the lucrative fur trading posts and fortifications of the Hudson's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy - French-Patriot victory -- August 8, 1782
• Siege of Bryan Station – Virginia - Patriot victory - August 15–17, 1782
• Battle of Blue Licks, Virginia (now Kentucky) – British-Iroquois victory - August 19, 1782 (Western Territories Campaign)
• Battle of the Combahee River – South Carolina - British victory - August 26, 1782
• Combahee Ferry, South Carolina - August 27, 1782
• Battle of Trincomalee – Ceylon - Inconclusive - August 25 – September 3, 1782
• Action of 4 September 1782 - France - British victory - September 4, 1782
• Action of 5 September 1782 - Long Island - Inconclusive - September 5, 1782
• Siege of Fort Henry (1782) and Rice's Fort (now Wheeling, West Virginia) - Virginia - Patriot victory -- September 11 – 13, 1782 (Western Territories Campaign)
• Grand Assault on Gibraltar - Gibraltar - British victory - September 14, 1782
• Battle of 2d Delaware Bay (Action of 15 September 1782) -- Four Royal Naval vessels under the command of George Elphinstone pursued and attacked three French warships which included two frigates which was under the command of Comte De la Touche Tréville. The French 38 gun frigate Aigle was grounded and captured along with the Comte De la Touche. - Delaware Bay - British victory -- September 15, 1782
• Action of 18 October 1782 – Hispaniola - British victory -- October 18, 1782
• Battle of Cape Spartel –- October 20, 1782
• John's Ferry , South Carolina -- November 4, 1782
• Battle of James Island - South Carolina - British victory; Patriots: 5 killed, 5 wounded; British: 2 killed, 3 wounded; Americans retreat; Captain William Wilmont, the last continental soldier killed in the Carolinas. -- November 14, 1782
• Action of 6 December 1782 – Martinique - British victory - December 6, 1782
• Action of 12 December 1782 – December 12, 1782
• Battle of the Delaware Capes (3rd Battle of Delaware Bay), off Cape May, New Jersey -- Three British Royal navy frigates HMS Diomede, Quebec and Astraea on the one side, and the South Carolina Navy's 40-gun frigate South Carolina, the brigs Hope and Constance, and the schooner Seagrove on the other. The British were victorious with only Seagrove escaping capture. -- December 20-21, 1782
• Battle of Cedar Bridge Tavern, New Jersey - Patriot victory: Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas engaged John Bacon and his Loyalist bandits (known now as "Refugees") at Cedar Bridge. A brief exchange of gunfire took place, and Bacon and his men were able to escape. This was the last land battle in the U.S. - December 27, 1782.

1783

• Action of 2 January 1783 - Hispaniola - British victory - January 2, 1783
• Action of 22 January 1783 (2d Battle of Chesapeake Bay) -- off Virginia - British frigate HMS Hussar under the command of Thomas McNamara Russell captured the French frigate Sybille under the command of Kergariou-Locmaria. The circumstances of the battle included controversial violations of accepted rules of war regarding the flying of false flags and distress signals by Sybille – January 22, 1783
• Capture of the Turks and Caicos Islands – February 12, 1783
• Action of 15 February 1783 - Guadeloupe - British victory
• Action of 17 February 1783 - Cuba - British victory
• Recapture of the Bahamas (1783) - Bahamas - British victory -- April 14–18, 1783
• Arkansas Post (Colbert's Raid), West Florida and Louisiana (now Arkansas)- (British v. Spanish and Indians) - April 17, 1783
• Battle of Cuddalore (1783) (naval battle) –- June 20, 1783
• Siege of Cuddalore (land siege) –- June 7–25, 1783

References

• List of American Revolutionary War battles
• Savas, Theodore P. and J. David Dameron. A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution. New York: Savas, Beattie LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-932714-94-4.
• Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. Annapolis, MD: The Nautical and Aviation Press of America, Inc., 1986. ISBN 978-0-933852-53-2.