Peter Francisco
...at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered his forces and we won the war. I also had the privilege of many men calling me “the most famous private soldier of the Revolutionary War”. Also General Washington himself sent me a 6 foot long broadsword that I killed 11 with at Guilford Courthouse. Your Friend, -Peter Francisco- Time-Line 1775: The War Begins The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes (4/18) The Battles of Lexington and Concord (4/19) Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Seize Fort Ticonderoga (5/10) The Second Continental Congress (met in Philadelphia, 5/10) Washington named Commander in Chief (6/15) Battle of Bunker Hill (fought on Breed's Hill) (6/17) Montgomery captures Montreal for Americans (11/13) Benedict Arnold's failed attack on Quebec (12/30) 1776: The Year of Independence Paine's Common Sense published (1/15) Patriot triumph at Moore's Creek, NC (2/27) Continental fleet captures New Providence Island in the Bahamas (3/3) The British evacuate Boston (3/17) Richard Henry Lee proposes Independence (6/7) British defence of Fort Moultrie, SC (6/28) Declaration of Independence adopted (7/4) Declaration of Independence signed (8/2) Arrival of 30,000 British troops in New York harbor British win the Battle of Long Island (Battle of Brooklyn) (8/27-30) British occupy New York City (9/15) British win the Battle of Harlem Heights (9/16) Benedict Arnold defeated at Lake Champlain (10/11) American retreat at the Battle of White Plains (10/28) British capture Fort Washington, NY and Fort Lee, NJ (11/16) Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton (12/26) 1777: The War for the North Washington wins the Battle of Princeton (1/3) Washington winters in Morristown, NJ (1/6-5/28)Flag Resolution (flag possibly designed by Hopkinson, likely sewn by Betsy Ross) (6/14) St. Clair surrenders Fort Ticonderoga to the British (7/5) Lafayette arrives in Philadelphia (7/27) Americans under Herkimer defeat the British under St. Leger at Fort Stanwix, in the Mohawk Valley in Oriskany, New York (8/6) American Militia under General Stark triumph over Hessians at Bennington (8/16) British General Howe lands at Head of Elk, Maryland (8/25) British success at the Battle of Brandywine, PA (9/11) Rain-out at the Battle of the Clouds, PA (9/16) Burgoyne checked by Americans under Gates at Freeman's Farm, NY (9/19) Paoli Massacre, PA (9/21) British under Howe occupy Philadelphia (9/26) Americans driven off at the Battle of Germantown (10/4) Burgoyne loses second battle of Freeman's Farm, NY (at Bemis Heights) (10/7) Burgoyne surrenders to American General Gates at Saratoga, NY (10/17) Hessian attack on Fort Mercer, NJ repulsed (10/22) British capture Fort Mifflin, PA (11/16) Americans repulse British at Whitemarsh, PA (12/5-7) The Winter at Valley Forge, PA (12/19/77-6/19/78) 1778: Valley Forge and the French Alliance The French Alliance (2/6) British General William Howe replaced by Henry Clinton (3/7) Van Steuben arrives at Valley Forge Battle of Barren Hill, PA (5/20) Washington fights to a draw at Battle of Monmouth (6/28) George Rogers Clark captured Kaskaskia, a French village near Detroit (7/4) French and American forces besiege Newport, RI (8/8) British occupy Savannah, GA (12/29) 1779: The War Spreads Militia beat Tories at Kettle Creek, GA (2/14) American George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes on the Wabash in the Western campaign (2/25) Fairfield, CT, burned by British (7/8) Norwalk, CT, burned by British (7/11) American Mad Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, NY (7/15-16) Light Horse Harry Lee attacks Paulus Hook, NJ (8/19) John Paul Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard, captures British man-of-war Serapis near English coast (9/23) The Tappan Massacre ( No Flint Grey kills 30 Americans by bayonet) (9/28) American attempt to recapture Savannah, GA fails (10/9) Coldest Winter of the war, Washington at Morristown, NJ 1780: The Campaign for the South British captur...