1775
Boston Campaign
From Lexington and Concord through Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights, the Boston Campaign transformed local resistance into an organized continental war and ended with the British evacuation of the city.
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A connected military-history atlas for the opening phase of the American Revolution. Move from a campaign to a battle, from a tactical phase to a formation, and from an interpretation back to the source record supporting it.
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Campaign atlas
Opening Campaigns
1775
Lake Champlain and Northern Frontier Campaign, 1775–1776
Fort Ticonderoga opened the Lake Champlain corridor to the rebels; after the failed Canadian invasion, Benedict Arnold’s improvised fleet fought at Valcour Island to delay a stronger British advance south.
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Canadian Campaign
The Continental invasion of Canada combined Montgomery’s advance up the Richelieu with Arnold’s difficult march through Maine, failed at Quebec, and ended in a retreat toward Lake Champlain.
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Southern Campaign of 1775–1776
Great Bridge, Moores Creek Bridge and Sullivan’s Island formed three distinct southern crises in which Patriot forces defeated or frustrated Crown efforts to restore authority before the main British war effort shifted north.
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New York and New Jersey Campaign
The New York and New Jersey Campaign joined a British amphibious offensive, a sequence of American withdrawals, the collapse of the Hudson positions, and Washington’s winter counteroffensive. Reading Brooklyn, Manhattan, Westchester, Fort Washington, Fort Lee, Trenton, Assunpink Creek, and Princeton as one operational sequence reveals how naval mobility, roads, rivers, intelligence, logistics, and preservation of the Continental Army repeatedly changed the strategic meaning of tactical victories and defeats.
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Battle Guides
Apr 19, 1775 · Massachusetts
Battles of Lexington and Concord
On April 19, 1775, a British expedition to Concord collided with militia resistance at Lexington, North Bridge and along a sixteen-mile battle road. The day did not resemble one compact battle: it became a chain of encounters that ended with the regulars fighting their way back toward Boston.
May 10, 1775 · New York
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
The May 10, 1775 capture of Fort Ticonderoga was a small action with disproportionate strategic value. The rebels gained a key northern post, material, and a foothold on the route toward Canada, while the fort’s artillery later became part of the Boston siege story.
Jun 17, 1775 · Massachusetts
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought primarily on Breed’s Hill on June 17, 1775. Britain captured the position, but the casualty bill and the defenders’ resistance made the battle one of the most consequential tactical demonstrations of the opening year.
Dec 9, 1775 · Virginia
Battle of Great Bridge
Great Bridge was a short but strategically important Virginia battle on December 9, 1775. The confined approach favored the Patriot defense, and the Crown defeat accelerated the collapse of effective royal authority in the colony.
Dec 31, 1775 · Quebec
Battle of Quebec
The failed American assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775 was the climax of the invasion of Canada. It combined severe operational time pressure with difficult urban terrain, divided assault columns and a determined garrison under Guy Carleton.
Feb 27, 1776 · North Carolina
Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
Moores Creek Bridge on February 27, 1776 was a campaign interception as much as a firefight. Patriot forces used the crossing to break a Loyalist column before it could unite with British forces arriving on the North Carolina coast.
Mar 4, 1776 · Massachusetts
Dorchester Heights and the Evacuation of Boston
The occupation of Dorchester Heights in March 1776 ended an eleven-month siege without a set-piece battle on the scale of Bunker Hill. Artillery, fortification and geography combined to make the British position in Boston strategically untenable.
Jun 8, 1776 · Quebec
Battle of Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières on June 8, 1776 was an attempted counterstroke during the collapsing Canadian invasion. The Americans entered difficult ground, failed to achieve surprise and were pushed back toward the Lake Champlain line.
Jun 28, 1776 · South Carolina
Battle of Sullivan’s Island
Sullivan’s Island on June 28, 1776 was an artillery and naval-positioning battle. William Moultrie’s unfinished palmetto fort absorbed a punishment that British planners expected to be decisive, while shoals and weak army-navy coordination frustrated the larger attack on Charleston.
Aug 27, 1776 · New York
Battle of Brooklyn
The first major battle after the Declaration of Independence was a major British tactical victory. The subsequent East River evacuation preserved Washington’s main army, while competing force and casualty estimates require careful separation by source and measurement scope.
Sep 15, 1776 · New York
Battle of Kip’s Bay
The Battle of Kip’s Bay on September 15, 1776 was an amphibious landing on Manhattan’s East River shore that converted the British victory on Long Island into a direct threat to the American army still spread across lower Manhattan. Naval gunfire, a rapid landing of roughly 4,000 Crown troops, and the collapse of the militia line forced Washington to accelerate the withdrawal toward Harlem Heights. Its importance lies less in a long firefight than in the way sea power, landing-site choice, command uncertainty and road geometry nearly turned an evacuation into an encirclement.
Sep 16, 1776 · New York
Battle of Harlem Heights
A morale-important American battlefield success fought in upper Manhattan one day after the landing at Kip’s Bay.