美國獨立戰爭
- 时期
- 1775年4月 – 1783年9月
- 阵营
- 大陆军与法国 vs 大不列颠
- 战役
- 114
美国独立战争，或称美国革命战争，是美国历史上北美十三殖民地反抗英国统治、争取独立的武装冲突。这场战争不仅是美国建国的关键，也因法国和西班牙的介入，成为一场具有国际影响的冲突。战争的根源可追溯至1763年，英国在七年战争中击败法国，确立了对北美的控制权。然而，随后的税收政策，如1765年的《印花法令》和1767年的《汤森法令》，引发了殖民地居民的强烈不满。英国试图通过军事手段维持秩序，却导致了1770年波士顿惨案的发生，进一步激化矛盾。1774年，英国议会通过《不可容忍法案》，试图解除殖民地的武装力量，终于在1775年4月引发了莱克星顿和康科德之战，标志著战争的正式爆发。
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战役 114
1775年4月
列克星敦和康科德战役
列克星敦和康科德之战 是英国陆军与北美民兵之间的一场武装冲突，发生于1775年4月19日。虽然美国参议院在1908年通过决议，将邓莫尔伯爵的战争 的快活角战斗 定为美国独立战争的第一战，但历史学界和美国社会普遍视列克星敦和康科德之战为独立战争的首场战斗。冲突发生于波士顿西部乡镇。
1775年4月 – 1776年3月
波士顿之围
波士顿之围 发生于1775年4月19日-1776年3月17日，是美国独立战争的开始阶段，此战中新英格兰民兵（后来成为大陆军的一部分）包围了马萨诸塞的波士顿镇，阻止驻守城中的英军调动。11个月的围城之后，乔治·华盛顿领导的美洲殖民者迫使英国人由海路撤退。
1775年5月
攻占提康德羅加堡
攻占提康德罗加堡 是美国独立战争早期的一场军事冲突。1775年5月10日，反叛英国的绿山兄弟，以及阿诺德号召的新英格兰民兵，突袭尚普兰湖南部、哈德逊河河畔的英军要塞，并以极少兵力攻占提康德罗加堡、皇冠岬堡及圣让堡，俘虏全部驻守英军，以及多门重型火炮。这些火炮后来透过大炮远运送抵波士顿的大陆军阵地，最终迫使英军撤出波士顿。
1775年5月
切爾西灣戰鬥
切尔西溪之战 是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间的一场军事冲突，发生于切尔西溪旁边的诺道岛 及霍德岛，今日已经填海成为东波士顿地区。战事民兵成功将两地的牲畜赶走，使到英国军队失去了食物补给。民兵亦焚毁了英国军队的双桅纵帆船戴安娜号，其舰上火器物资均为民兵夺去，并且用于半个月后的邦克山之战。是次会战亦是民兵与英国军队的首次炮战。
1775年5月
Battle off Fairhaven
The Battle off Fairhaven was the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War. It took place on May 14, 1775, in Buzzards Bay off Fairhaven, Massachusetts and resulted in Patriot militia retrieving two vessels that had been captured by HMS Falcon. The patriots also captured the 13 man crew of the Royal Navy, the first naval prisoners of the war.
1775年6月
邦克山戰役
邦克山之战 或译碉堡山之战，亦称布里德山之战，是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间的一场军事冲突，发生于1775年6月17日查尔斯镇北部山地。
1775年6月
馬柴厄斯海戰
马柴厄斯海战 是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间的一场军事冲突，亦是独立战争的第一场海战。战事发生于今日缅因州马柴厄斯县，当时属于麻萨诸塞湾殖民地一部分。
1775年8月
格洛斯特戰鬥 (1775年)
格洛斯特之战 是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间的一场军事冲突。战事发生于1775年8月8日或9日麻萨诸塞州格洛斯特，当时属于麻萨诸塞湾殖民地一部分。
1775年9月 – 1775年11月
圣让堡围城战
圣让堡围城战 是美国独立战争时期大陆军远征加拿大的一场战斗。1775年9月，大陆军兵分东西两路，前往攻打英属魁北克省首府魁北克市，当中西路军由皇冠岬堡出发，取道尚普兰湖、黎塞留河的圣让堡及蒙特利尔。9月17日大陆军开始包围圣让堡，在一轮攻守之后，终于在11月3日迫使圣让堡的英军投降。
1775年9月
長岬之戰
长岬之战 是美国独立战争时期大陆军远征加拿大的一场战斗。1775年9月，大陆军兵分两路，前往攻打英属魁北克省首府魁北克市，其中西路军正围攻圣让恩堡。围城期间，大陆军派前绿山兄弟领袖伊顿·阿伦，去征召加拿大人入伍，但阿伦却带兵去攻打蒙特利尔。结果魁北克省总督盖伊·卡尔顿派人切断阿伦退路，再予以包抄，使阿伦兵败被俘。
1775年10月
法爾茅斯焚城
法尔茅斯焚城 是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间的一次英军报复行动，发生于1775年10月18日麻萨诸塞州法尔茅斯（今缅因州波特兰）。
1775年11月
Battle of Kemp's Landing
The Battle of Kemp's Landing, also known as the Skirmish of Kempsville, was a skirmish in the American Revolutionary War that occurred on November 15, 1775. Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby Great Bridge. Dunmore was investigating rumors of Patriot troop arrivals from North Carolina that turned out to be false; he instead moved against the Princess Anne militia, defeating their attempt at an ambush and routing them.
1775年12月
魁北克戰役 (1775年)
魁北克之战，是大陆军围攻英国魁北克省首府魁北克市的一场会战。
1775年12月
Battle of Great Bridge
The Battle of Great Bridge was fought December 9, 1775, in the area of Great Bridge, Virginia, early in the American Revolutionary War. The refusal by colonial Virginia militia forces led to the departure of Royal Governor Lord Dunmore and any remaining vestiges of British power over the Colony of Virginia during the early days of the conflict.
1776年2月
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a minor conflict of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1776. The victory of the North Carolina Provincial Congress' militia force over British governor Josiah Martin's and Tristan Worsley's reinforcements at Moore's was a turning point in the war; American independence was declared less than five months later.
1776年3月
多徹斯特高地爭奪戰
多彻斯特高地争夺战 是美国独立战争波士顿之围期间最后一场军事冲突，发生于1776年3月4日至5日波士顿南面的多彻斯特高地。
1776年3月
聖皮埃爾之戰
圣皮埃尔之战，是美国独立战争期间叛军民兵与效忠派民兵的一场军事冲突，发生于魁北克围城战末期。
1776年3月
Battle of the Rice Boats
The Battle of the Rice Boats, also called the Battle of Yamacraw Bluff, was a land and naval battle of the American Revolutionary War that took place in and around the Savannah River on the border between the Province of Georgia and the Province of South Carolina on March 2 and 3, 1776. The battle pitted the Patriot militia from Georgia and South Carolina against a small fleet of the Royal Navy.
1776年4月
布洛克島海戰
布洛克岛海战 是美国独立战争期间在罗德岛布洛克岛外海发生的小型冲突。大陆海军的埃塞克·霍普金斯准将舰队突袭拿骚，并在当地的英军军用仓库缴获大批军需品。返航时，舰队偶遇英国皇家海军的格拉斯哥号巡防舰。格拉斯哥号呼唤大陆海军舰艇卡博特号，试图识别其身份，后来该舰一名水手向格拉斯哥号投掷手榴弹，战斗随即打响。在破坏了两艘舰艇的转向装置后，格拉斯哥号果断脱离战场，并成功摆脱追击，而霍普金斯准将也在数小时后下令中止追击。虽然格拉斯哥号满身伤痕，但成功逃离大陆海军七艘舰艇的追击，因此历史学家认为大英帝国在这场战斗中取得胜利。事后，大陆海军数位舰长的表现备受批评，其中一位更被解职，而霍普金斯准将也因为部分违法行为而受到大陆会议斥责。格拉斯哥号返回纽波特后不久，便被送往朴次茅斯大修，原本属于她的任务则重新分配给鹦鹉螺号负责。
1776年5月
色達斯之戰
色达斯之战，是美国独立战争时期英国与大陆军于蒙特利尔西郊的战事。
1776年6月
三河市之戰
三河市之战，是美国独立战争时期英国与大陆军在英属魁北克省的一场战事。
1776年6月
Battle of Sullivan's Island
The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. It took place near Charleston, South Carolina, during the first British attempt to capture the city from American forces. It is also sometimes referred to as the first siege of Charleston, owing to a more successful British siege in 1780.
1776年6月
Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet was an important, early naval victory for the Continental Navy and the future "Father of the American Navy", Captain John Barry. It was the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1776年8月
長島會戰
长岛之战，或称为布鲁克林之战，是美国独立战争期间英国与美国之间第一场陆上会战，亦是整场独立战争最大规模的一场战事。会战发生于1776年8月27日纽约市对岸的长岛布鲁克林区。
1776年9月
哈林高地戰役
哈林高地之战，是美国独立战争期间英国与美国之间的一场战斗，发生于1776年9月16日。
1776年9月
基普灣登陸戰
基普湾登陆战，是美国独立战争期间英国发动的一场登陆战，发生于1776年9月15日。
1776年10月
瓦庫爾島戰役
瓦库尔岛海战 是1776年美国独立战争时期、英国与美国在尚普兰湖的一场战事。
1776年10月
白原戰役
白原之战，是美国独立战争期间英国与美国之间的一场战斗，发生于1776年10月28日。
1776年10月
沛爾岬之戰
沛尔岬之战 是美国独立战争期间英国与美国之间的一场战斗，发生于1776年10月18日。
1776年11月
華盛頓堡攻城戰
华盛顿堡之战，是美国独立战争期间英国与美国之间的一场会战，发生于1776年11月16日。
1776年11月
Battle of Fort Cumberland (1776)
The Battle of Fort Cumberland was an attempt by a small number of militia commanded by Jonathan Eddy to bring the American Revolutionary War to Nova Scotia in late 1776. With minimal logistical support from Massachusetts and four to five hundred volunteer militia and Natives, Eddy attempted to besiege and storm Fort Cumberland in central Nova Scotia in November 1776.
1776年12月
特倫頓戰役
特伦顿之战 是美国独立战争于1776年的一场重要会战，发生于新泽西州特伦顿市。英国军队在华盛顿堡攻城战取胜后，乔治·华盛顿带领大陆军经新泽西州向宾夕法尼亚州撤退，而英军则紧随其后，最后与大陆军在特拉华河对峙。虽然美国革命因纽约州的战事失利而陷入危机，但英军却停止追击，并将军队分散到特伦顿等地防守。后来英国及黑森佣兵驻军又到处奸淫掳掠，结果引发新泽西州起义，令英军饱受民兵狙击骚扰。
1776年12月
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, which culminated in their attack on Hessian forces garrisoned at Trenton. Washington and his troops successfully attacked the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776.
1776年12月
Battle of Iron Works Hill
The Battle of Iron Works Hill, also known as the Battle of Mount Holly, was a series of minor skirmishes that took place on December 22 and 23, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. The fighting took place in Mount Holly, New Jersey, between an American force mostly composed of colonial militia under Colonel Samuel Griffin and a force of 2,000 Hessians and British regulars under Carl von Donop.
1777年1月
普林斯顿战役
普林斯顿之战，是美国独立战争于1777年的一场会战，发生于新泽西州普林斯顿。
1777年1月
阿遜平克溪戰役
阿逊平克溪之战，或称为第二次特伦顿之战，是美国独立战争于1777年的一场之战，发生于新泽西州特伦顿市。
1777年1月
Battle of Millstone
The Battle of Millstone, also known as the Battle of Van Nest's Mill, was a skirmish that occurred near the mill of Abraham Van Neste in Weston, New Jersey on January 20, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. A British foraging party was flanked and driven off by forces composed mostly of New Jersey militia, depriving the British of their wagons and supplies.
1777年4月
邦德溪戰役
邦德溪之战，是美国独立战争于1777年的一场会战，发生于今日新泽西州邦德溪行政区。
1777年4月
Battle of Ridgefield
The Battle of Ridgefield was a series of American Revolutionary War skirmishes in Danbury, Connecticut and Ridgefield, Connecticut, including Tryon's Raid on Danbury and the Battle of Compo Hill.
1777年6月
矮山戰役
矮山之战，又称梅塔钦聚会厅之战，是美国独立战争于1777年的一场会战，发生于今日新泽西州史考区平原。
1777年7月
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)
The siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between 2 July and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York. Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's 8,000-man army occupied high ground above the fort, and nearly surrounded the defenses. These movements precipitated the occupying Continental Army, an under-strength force of 3,000 under the command of General Arthur St. Clair, to withdraw from Ticonderoga and the surrounding defenses. Some gunfire was exchanged, and there were some casualties, but there was no formal siege and no pitched battle. Burgoyne's army occupied Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, the extensive fortifications on the Vermont side of the lake, without opposition on 6 July. Advance units pursued the retreating Americans.
1777年7月
Battle of Hubbardton
The Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the village of Hubbardton, Vermont. Vermont was then a disputed territory sometimes called the New Hampshire Grants, claimed by New York, New Hampshire, and the newly organized, not yet recognized, but de facto independent government of Vermont. On the morning of July 7, 1777, British forces, under General Simon Fraser, caught up with the American rear guard of the forces retreating after the withdrawal from Fort Ticonderoga. It was the only battle in Vermont during the revolution.
1777年7月
Battle of Fort Anne
The Battle of Fort Anne, fought on July 8, 1777, was an engagement between Continental Army forces in retreat from Fort Ticonderoga and forward elements of John Burgoyne's much larger British army that had driven them from Ticonderoga, early in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
1777年8月
Battle of Bennington
The Battle of Bennington was fought on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York during the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Taking place approximately 10 miles (16 km) from its namesake, Bennington, Vermont, the battle was fought between an American force of 2,000–2,500 men under Brigadier General John Stark and Lieutenant Colonel Seth Warner and a mostly Hessian and Loyalist force of 1,350–1,450 men under Lieutenant-colonel Friedrich Baum and Lieutenant-colonel Heinrich von Breymann. Stark and Warner's army defeated Baum and von Breymann's force, inflicting almost 1,000 casualties while suffering less than 100.
1777年8月
Battle of Oriskany
The Battle of Oriskany was a major engagement of the Saratoga campaign during the American Revolutionary War. On August 6, 1777, an American column of Tryon County militia and Oneidas marching to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix was ambushed by a contingent of Britain's Indigenous allies and Loyalists. It was one of the few battles of the war in which most non-Indigenous participants were settlers born in the Thirteen Colonies. The Americans suffered heavy casualties during the battle.
1777年8月
史泰登島戰役
史泰登岛之战，或译斯塔腾岛之战，是美国独立战争于1777年的一场会战，发生于今日纽约州纽约市史泰登岛。
1777年8月
Siege of Fort Stanwix
The siege of Fort Stanwix began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley, was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British and Indigenous forces aligned against them during the American Revolutionary War. The fort was occupied by Continental Army forces from New York and Massachusetts under the command of Colonel Peter Gansevoort. The besieging force was composed of British regulars, Loyalist soldiers, Hessians, and Indigenous warriors, under the command of Brigadier General Barry St. Leger. St. Leger's expedition was a diversion in support of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's campaign to take control of the Hudson River Valley to the east.
1777年8月
Battle of Machias (1777)
The Battle of Machias was an amphibious assault on the town of Machias in the Massachusetts District of Maine by British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Local militia aided by Indian allies successfully prevented British troops from landing. The raid, led by Commodore Sir George Collier, was executed in an attempt to head off a planned second assault on Fort Cumberland, which had been besieged in November 1776. The British forces landed below Machias, seized a ship, and raided a storehouse.
1777年9月 – 1777年10月
薩拉托加之戰
萨拉托加之战（1777年9月19日-10月7日）是萨拉托加战役中的一场战斗，也是美国独立战争中的一场决定性战斗。当时英国将军约翰·伯戈因率领一支军队自加拿大的尚普兰山谷南下，希望与一支从纽约北上的英军和另一支从安大略湖东进的英军会师；目标是攻占奥尔巴尼。不过另外两支部队迟迟未赶到预计的会师地点，结果约翰·伯戈因在距离预计的会师地点24公里的地方被美国军队包围。英军和美军发生了两次战斗，双方互有胜负。最终约翰·伯戈因在没有援军支援的情况下决定撤退至萨拉托加，并于10月17日向美军投降。
1777年9月
布兰迪万河战役
布兰迪万河战役 是在1777年9月11日美国独立战争期间，北美大陆军与英军在宾夕法尼亚省特拉华县附近的布兰迪万河发生的一场战役。此役结果英军获胜，北美大陆议会被迫放弃费城。
1777年9月
Battle of Paoli
The Battle of Paoli was fought on September 20, 1777, near present-day Malvern, Pennsylvania as part of the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Following the Continental Army's retreat due to the Battle of Brandywine and the aborted Battle of the Clouds, General George Washington left a force of 1,500 regulars and 1,000 militia behind under Brigadier General Anthony Wayne to monitor and resist advancing British forces as they prepared to attack the American capital of Philadelphia.
1777年9月
Battle of Cooch's Bridge
The Battle of Cooch's Bridge, also known as the Battle of Iron Hill, was fought on September 3, 1777, between the Continental Army and American militia and primarily German soldiers serving alongside the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. It was the only significant military action during the war on the soil of Delaware, and it took place about a week before the major Battle of Brandywine. Some traditions claim this as the first battle which saw the U.S. flag.
1777年9月 – 1777年11月
Siege of Fort Mifflin
The siege of Fort Mifflin or the siege of Mud Island Fort, which took place from September 26 to November 16, 1777, saw British land batteries commanded by Captain John Montresor and a British naval squadron under Vice Admiral Lord Richard Howe attempt to capture an American fort in the Delaware River that was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Smith. The operation finally succeeded after Smith was wounded. His successor, Major Simeon Thayer, subsequently evacuated the fort on the night of November 15, enabling British troops to occupy the place the following morning.
1777年10月
日耳曼敦战役
日耳曼敦之战 是在美国独立战争期间于1777年10月4日在宾夕法尼亚州的日耳曼敦发生的北美大陆军与英国军队之间发生的一场战斗。会战的结局英军获胜、大陆军失利。
1777年10月
Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery
The Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery was fought in the Hudson Highlands of the Hudson River valley on 6 October 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. British troops under General Sir Henry Clinton captured Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery and dismantled the first iteration of the Hudson River Chains.
1777年10月
Battle of Red Bank
The Battle of Red Bank, also known as the Battle of Fort Mercer, was fought on October 22, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War. A force of 1,200 Hessian troops was sent to take Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River just south of Philadelphia, but was defeated by a smaller force of Continental Army troops.
1777年11月
Battle of Gloucester (1777)
The Battle of Gloucester was a skirmish fought between November 25, 1777 and the early morning of November 26, 1777, during the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. It was the first battlefield command for the Marquis de Lafayette.
1777年12月
怀特马什战役
怀特马什之战 美国独立战争期间，1777年12月5日至12月8日费城战役期间，在临近华盛顿堡的一个叫做怀特马什的小村落展开的一场小规模的会战。这是英国远征军与北美大陆军在1777年的最后一场战斗。英军指挥官威廉·豪从占领的费城抽调出军队，打算在冬季到来之前，彻底击溃乔治·华盛顿的大陆军，但遭到大陆军的顽强反击，威廉·豪的作战计划因此受挫，最后不得不撤出战场，返回费城。英军撤退后，华盛顿则率大陆军转移到了福吉谷营地。
1778年5月
Battle of Cobleskill
The Battle of Cobleskill was an American Revolutionary War raid on the frontier settlement of Cobleskill, New York on May 30, 1778. The battle took place in what is now the hamlet of Warnerville, New York, near the modern Cobleskill-Richmondville High School. The raid marked the beginning of a phase in which Loyalists and Haudenosaunee, encouraged and supplied by British authorities in the Province of Quebec, attacked and destroyed numerous villages on what was then the western frontier of New York and Pennsylvania.
1778年5月
Mount Hope Bay raids
The Mount Hope Bay raids were a series of military raids conducted by British troops during the American Revolutionary War against communities on the shores of Mount Hope Bay on May 25 and 31, 1778. The towns of Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island were significantly damaged, and Freetown, Massachusetts was also attacked, although its militia resisted British attacks more successfully. The British destroyed military defenses in the area, including supplies that had been cached by the Continental Army in anticipation of an assault on British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island. Homes as well as municipal and religious buildings were also destroyed in the raids.
1778年5月
Battle of Barren Hill
The Battle of Barren Hill was a minor engagement during the American Revolution. On May 20, 1778, a British Army force attempted to encircle a smaller Continental Army force then under the command of Marquis de Lafayette. The maneuver failed, and the Continental Army escaped the trap but the British took the field.
1778年5月
Battle of Crooked Billet
The Battle of Crooked Billet was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on May 1, 1778 near the Crooked Billet Tavern in Moreland Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. In the skirmish action, British forces under the command of Major John Graves Simcoe launched a surprise attack against Brigadier General John Lacey and three regiments of Pennsylvania militia, who were caught sleeping. The British inflicted significant damage, and Lacey and his forces were forced to retreat into neighboring Warminster, Bucks County.
1778年6月
蒙茅斯战役
蒙茅斯之战，1778年6月28日，在美国独立战争期间，乔治·华盛顿将军指挥的北美大陆军与亨利·克林顿爵士将军指挥的英军在今天新泽西蒙茅斯县发生的一场会战。
1778年6月
Battle of Alligator Creek Bridge
The Battle of Alligator Bridge took place on June 30, 1778, and was the only major engagement in an unsuccessful campaign to conquer British East Florida during the American Revolutionary War. A detachment of Georgia militiamen under the command of General James Screven chased Thomas Brown's Loyalist company into a large position of British regulars established by British Major Mark Prevost and were turned back.
1778年7月
Battle of Wyoming
The Battle of Wyoming was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militia and a force of Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois warriors. The battle took place in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, in what is now Luzerne County. The result was an overwhelming defeat for the Patriots. The battle is often referred to as the Wyoming Massacre because of the roughly 300 Patriot casualties, many of whom were killed by the Iroquois as they fled the battlefield or after they had been taken prisoner.
1778年8月
Battle of Rhode Island
The Battle of Rhode Island took place on August 29, 1778. Continental Army and militia forces commanded by Major-General John Sullivan had been on Aquidneck Island besieging British forces occupying Newport, Rhode Island. They chose to lift the siege and planned to withdraw to the northern part of Aquidneck Island. The British then sortied, supported by recently arrived Royal Navy ships, and attacked the retreating Americans. The battle ended inconclusively, but Continental forces then chose to withdraw further to the mainland, leaving Aquidneck Island including Newport in British hands. The soldiers in combat were about 4,875 in the American army and 2,950 in the British army, for a total of 7,825 making it the largest battle in New England based on numbers.
1778年9月
Siege of Boonesborough
The siege of Boonesborough was a military engagement which took place in September 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. On September 7, Shawnee chief Blackfish, who was allied to the British, led an attack on the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough. Months before the battle, Blackfish had captured and adopted Daniel Boone, the founder of Boonesborough. Boone escaped the Shawnees in time to lead the defense of the settlement. Blackfish's siege was unsuccessful and was lifted after eleven days. Boone was then court-martialed by fellow officers who suspected him of harboring Loyalist sympathies. He was acquitted, but soon left the settlement.
1778年10月
Affair at Little Egg Harbor
The Affair at Little Egg Harbor took place on October 15, 1778, in South Jersey during the American Revolutionary War. American Loyalists commanded by Patrick Ferguson surprised an outpost of Patriot Kazimierz Pułaski‘s Legion at night, killing 45 and capturing five. The raid took place about one week after the Battle of Chestnut Neck, a British raid aimed at suppressing privateers who used the area as a base to harass and seize British ships and their cargoes.
1778年11月
Cherry Valley massacre
The Cherry Valley massacre was an attack by British and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) forces on a fort and the town of Cherry Valley in central New York on November 11, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It has been described as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the war. A mixed force of Loyalists, British soldiers, Senecas, and Mohawks descended on Cherry Valley, whose defenders, despite warnings, were unprepared for the attack. During the raid, the Seneca in particular targeted non-combatants, and reports state that 30 such individuals were killed, in addition to a number of armed defenders.
1779年2月
博福特戰役
博福特之战，别称皇家港岛之战，是于1779年美国独立战争期间在南卡罗莱纳州博福特附近进行的一场会战。此场会战发生在大不列颠王国军队加强对萨凡纳周围地区的管制后不久，其于1778年12月夺取了萨凡纳。
1779年2月
Battle of Kettle Creek
The Battle of Kettle Creek was the first major victory for Patriots in the back country of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War that took place on February 14, 1779. It was fought in Wilkes County about eleven miles (18 km) from present-day Washington, Georgia. A militia force of Patriots defeated and scattered a Loyalist militia force that was on its way to British-controlled Augusta. Several Loyalist prisoners were subsequently hanged.
1779年2月
Siege of Fort Vincennes
The siege of Fort Sackville, also known as the siege of Fort Vincennes or the Battle of Vincennes, was an American Revolutionary War frontier battle fought in present-day Vincennes, Indiana. In February 1779, an American militia led by Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark defeated the British garrison of Fort Sackville commanded by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton. Clark surprised the fort after a gruelling march from Kaskaskia, and following the execution of four Odawa captives, forced Hamilton's surrender.
1779年3月
Battle of Brier Creek
The Battle of Brier Creek was fought on March 3, 1779, near Brier Creek in eastern Georgia as part of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. A British force of 900 regulars and militia under Lieutenant-colonel Jacques Marcus Prevost defeated an American force of 1,100 regulars and militia under Brigadier General John Ashe and Colonel Samuel Elbert. In a lopsided battle the Americans suffered at least 150 killed and a further 227 captured, among them Elbert, while the British sustained only 16 casualties. The battle boosted Loyalist cause in the region while severely damaging Patriot morale.
1779年6月
Battle of Stono Ferry
The Battle of Stono Ferry was an American Revolutionary War battle, fought on June 20, 1779, near Charleston, South Carolina. The rear guard from a British expedition retreating from an aborted attempt to take Charleston held off an assault by militia forces under American General Benjamin Lincoln.
1779年7月
斯托尼角战役
斯托尼角之战 是美国独立战争期间的1779年7月15日夜晚至16日凌晨美国大陆军与英国军队在纽约州的斯托尼角发生的会战。
1779年7月
Battle of Minisink
The Battle of Minisink took place during the American Revolutionary War at Minisink Ford, New York, on July 22, 1779. It was the only major skirmish of the Revolutionary War fought in the upper Delaware River valley. The battle was a decisive Haudenosaunee and Loyalist victory, as the Patriot militia was hastily assembled, ill-equipped and inexperienced.
1779年8月
Penobscot Expedition
The Penobscot Expedition was an unsuccessful expedition launched by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress during the American Revolutionary War. On June 17, 1779, 700 British Army troops under Brigadier-general Francis McLean landed on the coast of the District of Maine and established a series of fortifications around Fort George on the Majabigwaduce Peninsula in the upper Penobscot Bay with the goals of establishing a military presence on that part of the coast and establishing the colony of New Ireland. In response, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, supported by the Second Continental Congress, raised an expedition to drive McLean's troops out.
1779年8月
Battle of Newtown
The Battle of Newtown was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by Major General John Sullivan that was ordered by George Washington to end the threat of the Haudenosaunee who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War. Opposing Sullivan's four brigades were 250 Loyalist soldiers from Butler's Rangers, commanded by Major John Butler, and 350 Haudenosaunee and Lenape (Delaware). Butler and Mohawk war leader Joseph Brant did not want to make a stand at Newtown, and instead proposed to harass the enemy on the march, but were overruled by Sayenqueraghta and other Indigenous war leaders.
1779年8月
Battle of Paulus Hook
The Battle of Paulus Hook was fought on August 19, 1779, between Continental Army and British forces in the American Revolutionary War. The Patriots were led by Major Light Horse Harry Lee, and launched a nighttime raid on the British-controlled fort in what is today downtown Jersey City. They 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. Lee was rewarded by the Second Continental Congress with a gold medal, the only non-general to receive such an award during the war.
1779年9月 – 1779年10月
薩凡納圍城戰
萨凡纳围城战，或称第二次萨凡纳战役发生于1779年的美国独立战争。该年年初，萨凡纳才刚被英国中校阿奇巴德·坎贝尔率领的远征军团所攻占。法美联军尝试在1779年9月16日到10月18日的围攻中收复萨凡纳。10月9日的主要攻势也被英军的工事所阻。发动攻势中，为美军作战的波兰贵族卡齐米日·普瓦斯基却受到重伤。由于法美联军迟迟无法拿下，围攻最终宣告失败，而英军则控制著萨凡纳一直到1782年7月，几乎是战争将结束之时。
1779年9月
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)
The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez's march into West Florida.
1779年9月
Battle of Lake Pontchartrain
The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single-ship action on September 10, 1779, part of the Anglo-Spanish War. It was fought between the British sloop-of-war HMS West Florida and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, then in the British province of West Florida.
1779年9月
Capture of Fort Bute
The capture of Fort Bute, also known as the Battle of Manchac Post, 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 on September 7, 1779.
1780年3月 – 1780年5月
查爾斯頓圍城戰
查尔斯顿围城战是美国独立战争后期的一场重要战斗，在此之后，英军开始利用其战略优势横扫南方的殖民地。这场围城战中，大陆军损失的人数亦是整场战争中最多的。
1780年3月
Battle of Fort Charlotte
The Battle of Fort Charlotte, also known as the siege of Fort Charlotte, was a two-week siege conducted by Spanish general Bernardo de Gálvez against the British fortifications guarding the port of Mobile, during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1779-1783. Fort Charlotte was the last remaining British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans, Louisiana. Its fall drove the British from the western reaches of West Florida and reduced the British military presence in West Florida to its capital, Pensacola.
1780年5月
沃克斯華戰役
沃克斯华之战 是美国独立战争中的一场会战，爆发于1780年5月29日的兰卡斯特，交战双方分别是阿布拉罕·布佛得率领的大陆军（美军）及伯纳斯特·塔尔顿率领的英军。当其他美军听闻塔尔顿拒绝了布佛得的投降后，便称此战役为沃克斯华大屠杀。
1780年5月
Battle of St. Louis
The Battle of St. Louis, also known as the Attack on St. Louis and the Battle of Fort San Carlos, was fought on May 26, 1780, between British-allied Indians and defenders of the Franco-Spanish village of St. Louis, Louisiana during the American Revolutionary War. The garrison, a motley assortment of regulars and militiamen led by Upper Louisiana's lieutenant governor, Captain Fernando de Leyba, suffered a small number of casualties.
1780年6月
Battle of Springfield
The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780, in Union County, New Jersey. After the Battle of Connecticut Farms, on June 7, 1780, had foiled Lieutenant General Wilhelm, Baron von Knyphausen's expedition to attack General George Washington's army at Morristown, New Jersey, Knyphausen and Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton, British commander-in-chief in North America, decided upon a second attempt. Although the British were initially able to advance, they were ultimately forced to withdraw in the face of newly arriving rebel forces, resulting in a Continental victory. The battle effectively ended British ambitions in New Jersey.
1780年8月
卡姆登戰役
卡姆登之战 在1780年8月16日发生于今美国南卡罗莱纳州卡姆登以北10公里，是美国独立战争里大不列颠王国彻底击败美国的一场会战，加强了英国对卡罗莱纳省的控制。中将查尔斯·康沃利斯领导英军，兵力2100；少将霍雷肖·盖兹领导美军，兵力4000。
1780年8月
Battle of Piqua
The Battle of Piqua, also known as the Battle of Peckowee, Battle of Pekowi, Battle of Peckuwe and the Battle of Pickaway, was a military engagement fought on August 8, 1780, at the Indian village of Piqua along the Mad River in western Ohio Country between the Kentucky County militia under General George Rogers Clark and Shawnee Indians under Chief Black Hoof. The Indians were driven off and the village and surrounding fields burned, but Clark suffered daunting casualties. Clark's expedition was in response to Bird's invasion of Kentucky earlier that summer by a combined force of Shawnee, Lenape and Miami warriors that killed and captured hundreds of white settlers.
1780年9月
Battle of Charlotte
The Battle of Charlotte was fought on September 26, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. It took place at what was then the Mecklenburg County courthouse; which is now the site of the Bank of America tower at Trade and Tryon Streets in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. An advance guard of General Charles Cornwallis' army rode into town and encountered a well-prepared American militia under the command of William R. Davie in front of the court house. A skirmish ensued in which George Hanger, leading British cavalry, was wounded. The small American force, which had not intended more than token resistance, withdrew north toward Salisbury, North Carolina upon the arrival of Cornwallis and the main army.
1780年10月
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was fought on October 7, 1780, in South Carolina during the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. Fought almost entirely between Patriot and Loyalist troops, the battle resulted in a decisive Patriot victory. Taking place 9 miles (14 km) south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in what is now rural Cherokee County, South Carolina, the battle has been described as "the war's largest all-American fight."
1780年11月
布萊克斯托克農場戰役
布莱克斯托克农场之战是美国独立战争中的一场会战，爆发于今日的南卡罗莱纳州犹尼昂郡，交叉泊的几里外。时间是1780年11月20日。美军最终获得胜利。
1781年1月
考彭斯戰役
考彭斯之战 是一场美国革命军决定性的胜利，美军在丹尼尔·摩根准将率领下击败了伯纳斯特·塔尔顿的军队。该场会战是南方战场的一部分。这场会战扭转了战局，美军并开始重占失去的南方土地。
1781年1月
Battle at The Village
The Battle at The Village was fought on January 7, 1781. It was a failed British attempt to recapture a Spanish fortification at "The Village," during the American Revolutionary War. The attack was led by Waldecker Colonel Johann von Hanxleden who was killed in the attempt.
1781年2月
Pyle's Massacre
Pyle's Massacre was an engagement fought in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina, on February 24, 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. The battle was fought between Patriot troops attached to the Continental Army under Colonel Henry Lee III and Loyalist North Carolina militiamen commanded by John Pyle. Due to the unique uniforms worn by Lee's men, the Loyalists mistakenly believed they were the British Legion, who were en route to reinforce Pyle. When Lee's men opened fire, they took Pyle's forces totally by surprise. This resulted in an extremely lopsided victory for Lee, and Pyle's command was scattered and routed.
1781年3月 – 1781年5月
Siege of Pensacola
The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The siege was commanded by Bernardo de Gálvez, whose nearly 8,000 troops ultimately overran the British forces in the region. The success of the siege resulted in Gálvez' promotion to governor of West Florida and Louisiana.
1781年3月
吉爾福德縣府戰役
吉尔福德县府之战 是一场爆发于1781年3月15日的美国独立战争会战，发生地在今日美国北卡罗莱纳州的格林斯伯勒。1,900名英国军队在康沃利斯侯爵的指挥下，与由弥敦内尔·格连将军指挥的4,400名美军进行战斗。
1781年3月
Battle of Cape Henry
The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron under Vice-admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French squadron under Admiral Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches. Destouches, based in Newport, Rhode Island, had sailed for the Chesapeake as part of a joint operation with the Continental Army to oppose the British army of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold that was active in Virginia.
1781年4月
Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on April 25, 1781, near Camden, South Carolina. A small American force under Nathanael Greene occupying Hobkirk's Hill, north of Camden, was attacked by British troops led by Francis Rawdon. After a fierce clash, Greene retreated, leaving Rawdon's smaller force in possession of the hill.
1781年4月
Battle of Blandford
The Battle of Blandford, also called the Battle of Petersburg, took place near Petersburg, Virginia on 25 April 1781, late in the American War of Independence. Roughly 2,300 British regulars under the command of Brigadier General William Phillips defeated about 1,000 American militia under Major General Baron von Steuben.
1781年4月
Siege of Fort Watson
The siege of Fort Watson was an American Revolutionary War confrontation in South Carolina that began on April 15, 1781, and lasted until April 23, 1781. Continental Army forces under Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee and South Carolina militia under Francis Marion besieged Fort Watson, a fortified British outpost that formed part of the communication and supply chain between Charleston and other British outposts further inland.
1781年5月 – 1781年6月
Siege of Ninety Six
The siege of Ninety Six was a siege in western South Carolina late in the American Revolutionary War. From May 22 to June 18, 1781, Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene led 1,000 troops in a siege against the 550 Loyalists in the fortified village of Ninety Six, South Carolina. The 28-day siege centered on an earthen fortification known as Star Fort. Despite having more troops, Greene was unsuccessful in taking the town, and was forced to lift the siege when Lord Rawdon approached from Charleston with British troops.
1781年6月
Battle of Spencer's Ordinary
The Battle of Spencer's Ordinary was an inconclusive skirmish that took place on 26 June 1781, late in the American Revolutionary War. British forces under Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and American forces under Colonel Richard Butler, light detachments from the armies of General Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette respectively, clashed near a tavern at a road intersection not far from Williamsburg, Virginia.
1781年7月
Battle of Green Spring
The Battle of Green Spring took place near Green Spring Plantation in James City County, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. On July 6, 1781 United States Brigadier General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, leading the advance forces of the Marquis de Lafayette, was ambushed near the plantation by the British army of Earl Charles Cornwallis in the last major land battle of the Virginia campaign prior to the Siege of Yorktown.
1781年8月
Lochry's Defeat
Lochry's Defeat, also known as the Lochry massacre, was a battle fought on August 24, 1781, near present-day Aurora, Indiana, in the United States. The battle was part of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which began as a conflict between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies before spreading to the western frontier, where American Indians entered the war as British allies. The battle was short and decisive: about one hundred Indians of local tribes led by Joseph Brant, a Mohawk military leader who was temporarily in the west, ambushed a similar number of Pennsylvania militiamen led by Archibald Lochry. Brant and his men killed or captured all of the Pennsylvanians without suffering any casualties.
1781年9月 – 1781年10月
約克鎮圍城戰
约克镇围城战（或称约克镇之战）是美国独立战争中的最后一场陆上大型战斗，发生于1781年9月28日—10月19日。战斗中，罗尚博伯爵带领的法军和乔治·华盛顿将军率领的美军联手围攻困守约克镇的英军（由查尔斯·康沃利斯将军指挥），获得了决定性的胜利。在康沃利斯的军队投降之后，英国政府决定进行谈判并结束这场战争。
1781年9月
切薩皮克灣海戰
切萨皮克湾海战，又称维吉尼亚角战役或简称海角战役，于1781年9月5日切萨皮克湾附近爆发，是美国独立战争中一场关键的海战，由汤玛斯·葛瑞夫斯率领的英国舰队对抗德·葛拉瑟伯爵指挥的法国舰队。
1781年9月
Battle of Eutaw Springs
The Battle of Eutaw Springs was fought on September 8, 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major engagement of the conflict to be fought in the Carolinas. Both sides claimed a victory.
1781年9月
Battle of Groton Heights
The Battle of Groton Heights was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 6, 1781, between a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard and the more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold and Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Eyre.
1782年4月
Battle of Delaware Bay
The Battle of Delaware Bay, or the Battle of Cape May, was a naval engagement fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States during the American Revolutionary War. A British force of three vessels attacked three American privateers that were escorting a fleet of merchantmen. The ensuing combat in Delaware Bay near Cape May ended with the American sloop Hyder Ally capturing the British sloop-of-war HMS General Monk.
1782年8月
Battle of Blue Licks
The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east. On a hill next to the Licking River in what is now Robertson County, Kentucky, a force of 50 Butler's Rangers and 300 Indigenous warriors ambushed and routed 182 Kentucky militia, who were partially led by Daniel Boone, the famed frontiersman.
1782年9月
Siege of Fort Henry (1782)
The second siege of Fort Henry was a three-day engagement during the American Revolutionary War that began on September 11, 1782. A force of about 260 Wyandot, Shawnee, Mingo and Lenape attacked Fort Henry, an American fortification at what is now Wheeling, West Virginia. They were accompanied by 40 soldiers from Butler's Rangers, a British provincial regiment. The siege was one of the last engagements of the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, the story of the siege became well known to Americans due to the "gunpowder exploit" of Betty Zane.
1783年4月
Colbert raid
The Colbert raid, also known as the Battle of Arkansas Post, was an unsuccessful British attempt to capture Fort Carlos III, garrisoned by a detachment of the Louisiana Fixed Infantry Regiment, and the Franco-Spanish village of Arkansas Post, Louisiana, during the American Revolutionary War.
附近的前后事件
- 1607年詹姆斯敦 (維吉尼亞州)
- 1763年 – 1783年美國革命
- 1775年4月 – 1783年9月美國獨立戰爭本页
- 1776年美国独立宣言
- 1787年美国宪法
- 1863年蓋茨堡之戰
统治这片土地的国家
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