Battles.
The principal battles in which the people of the
United States have been engaged, as colonists and as a nation, are as follows:
French and Indian War.
| Great Meadows | May 28, 1754 |
| Fort Necessity | July 4, 1754 |
| Fort Beau Sejour | June 16, 1755 |
| Fort Gaspereaux | June 17, 1755 |
| Monongahela | July 9, 1755 |
| Bloody Pond (near Lake George) | Sept. 8, 1755 |
| Head of Lake George | Sept. 8, 1755 |
| Oswego | Aug. 14, 1756 |
| Fort William Henry | July 6, 1757 |
| Near Ticonderoga | July 6, 1758 |
| Ticonderoga | July 8, 1758 |
| Louisburg | July 26, 1758 |
| Fort Frontenac | Aug. 27, 1758 |
| Alleghany Mountains | Sept. 21, 1758 |
| Fort Niagara | July 25, 1759 |
| Montmorenci | July 31, 1759 |
| Plains of Abraham | Sept. 13, 1759 |
| Sillery | April 28, 1760 |
| Revolutionary War. |
| Lexington | April 19, 1775 |
| Bunker (Breed's) Hill | June 17, 1775 |
| Near Montreal (Ethan Allen captured) | Sept. 25, 1775 |
| St. John's (Siege and Capture of) | Oct. and Nov. 1775 |
| Great Bridge | Dec. 9, 1775 |
| Quebec | Dec. 31, 1775 |
| Moore's Creek Bridge | Feb. 27, 1776 |
| Boston (Evacuation of) | Mar. 17, 1776 |
| Cedar Rapids | May 9, 1776 |
| Three Rivers | June 8, 1776 |
| Fort Sullivan (Charleston Harbor） | June 28, 1776 |
| Long Island | Aug. 27, 1776 |
| Harlem Plains | Sept. 16, 1776 |
| White Plains | Oct. 28, 1776 |
| Fort Washington | Nov. 16, 1776 |
| Trenton | Dec. 26, 1776 |
| Princeton | Jan. 3, 1777 |
| Hubbardton | July 7, 1777 |
| Oriskany | Aug. 6, 1777 |
| Bennington | Aug. 16, 1777 |
| Brandywine | Sept. 11, 1777 |
| Bemis's Heights (first), Sept. 19; (second） | Oct. 7, 1777 |
| Paoli | Sept. 20, 1777 |
| Germantown | Oct. 4, 1777 |
| Forts Clinton and Montgomery | Oct. 6, 1777 |
| Fort Mercer | Oct. 22, 1777 |
| Fort Mifflin | Nov. 16, 1777 |
| Monmouth | June 28, 1778 |
| Wyoming | July 4, 1778 |
| Quaker Hill (R. I.) | Aug. 29, 1778 |
| Savannah | Dec. 29, 1778 |
| Kettle Creek | Feb. 14, 1779 |
| Brier Creek | Mar. 3, 1779 |
| Stono Ferry | June 20, 1779 |
| Stony Point | July 16, 1779 |
| Paulus's Hook | Aug. 19, 1779 |
| Chemung (near Elmira, N. Y.） | Aug. 29, 1779 |
| Savannah | Oct. 9, 1779 |
| Charleston (Siege and Surrender of) | May 12, 1780 |
| Springfield (N. J.) | June 23, 1780 |
| Rocky Mount (N. C.) | July 30, 1780 |
| Hanging Rock (N. C.) | Aug. 6, 1780 |
| Sander's Creek (near Camden, S. C.） | Aug. 16, 1780 |
| King's Mountain (S. C.) | Oct. 7, 1780 |
| Fish Dam Ford | Nov. 18, 1780 |
| Blackstocks | Nov. 20, 1780 |
| Cowpens | Jan. 17, 1781 |
| Guilford | Mar. 15, 1781 |
| Hobkirk's Hill | April 25, 1781 |
| Ninety-six (Siege of) | May and June 1781 |
| Augusta (Siege of) | May and June 1781 |
| Jamestown | July 9, 1781 |
| Eutaw Springs | Sept. 8, 1781 |
| Yorktown (Siege of) | Sept. and Oct. 1781 |
| naval engagements. |
| Hampton, Va. (British fleet repulsed) | Oct. 24, 1775 |
| Fort Sullivan, Charleston Harbor (British fleet repulsed) | June 28, 1776 |
| Fort Stony Point, on the Hudson (captured by British fleet） | May 31, 1779 |
| Verplanck's Point, on the Hudson (captured by British fleet） | June 1, 1779 |
| British fleet and American flotilla of thirty-seven vessels on Penobscot River (latter destroyed) | Aug. 13, 1779 |
| Bon Homme Richard and the Alliance against the Serapis (off coast of England） | Sept. 23 1779 |
| American fleet captured the Scarborough (off coast of England） | Sept. 23 1779 |
| French fleet attacked Savannah (forced by the British to withdraw) | Oct. 9, 1779 |
| War with the Indians. |
| Miami River | Oct. 19 and 22, |
| St. Clair's Defeat | Nov. 4, 1791 |
