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5 days ago · On 19 December 1777, the exhausted and starving soldiers of the Continental Army staggered into Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a location about 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Philadelphia at the confluence of the Valley Creek and the Schuylkill River. It had been a long and difficult campaign.
3 days ago · September 24, 1777 at Diamond Island, New York - Having previously captured 300 British troops on the west shore of Lake George, Col. John Brown's Continentals successfully raided the British post at Diamond Island, located south of Ticonderoga. They were unsuccessful in capturing Fort Ticonderoga itself.
1 day ago · The British captured Louisbourg after a month-long siege in June–July 1758 and destroyed the French supply stock at Fort Frontenac in August 1758. During that time, the French were compelled to retreat from Fort Duquesne when some of their First Nations allies made a separate peace agreement with the British.
3 days ago · Battle of the First of June, the first great naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought on June 1, 1794, between the French and the British in the Atlantic Ocean about 430 miles (690 km) west of the Breton island of Ouessant (Ushant). The battle arose out of an attempt by the British.
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5 days ago · The Spanish Attack of 1742. 1747 map of St. Simons Island, showing the sequence of the 1742 battles. After Oglethorpe’s attempt to capture Spanish Florida in 1740, he returned to Frederica to prepare for a counterattack. This came in 1742, when a combined Spanish force of St. Augustine's Garrison, free Black soldiers from Fort Mosé, and ...
4 days ago · Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown (now part of Boston) during the Siege of Boston. Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause.
