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/Massachusetts10

ArlingtonThen called Menotomy, this town saw the bloodiest combat of →BostonThe Massacre, the Tea Party, the siege that expelled the Bri→CambridgeGeorge Washington took command of the Continental Army under→ConcordAt North Bridge on April 19, 1775, colonial militia did some→LexingtonBefore dawn on April 19, 1775, roughly seventy militiamen as→MarbleheadMarblehead fishermen rowed Washington's army across the Dela→PlymouthThe town that symbolized English settlement in America sent →SalemSalem's merchant fleet became a privateer navy during the wa→SpringfieldThe Springfield Armory became the new nation's primary weapo→WorcesterWorcester's patriots shut down the royal courts months befor→

/New Jersey8

ElizabethNew Jersey's colonial capital and a hub of early resistance →Fort LeeThe fall of Fort Lee in November 1776 began Washington's des→HackensackA deeply divided community on Washington's retreat route whe→MonmouthThe Battle of Monmouth in June 1778 was one of the war's lar→MorristownThe Continental Army wintered at Morristown twice, in 1777 a→New BrunswickNew Brunswick's position on the Raritan River made it a key →PrincetonDays after Trenton, Washington won again at Princeton. These→TrentonWashington's Christmas 1776 crossing of the Delaware and sur→

/New York12

AlbanyAlbany was the strategic objective of Burgoyne's failed inva→Crown PointCrown Point controlled access along Lake Champlain. The fort→Harlem HeightsThe Battle of Harlem Heights in September 1776 gave the Cont→KingstonKingston served as New York's first state capital before Bri→New York CityNew York fell to British forces in 1776 and remained occupie→NewburghWashington's headquarters at Newburgh saw the tense final mo→SaratogaThe 1777 American victory that convinced France to enter the→Saratoga SpringsThe British surrender at Saratoga in October 1777 convinced →Stony PointAnthony Wayne's daring night assault captured Stony Point in→TiconderogaEthan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticond→West PointWest Point's fortifications prevented the British from contr→White PlainsThe Battle of White Plains in October 1776 was part of Washi→

/Pennsylvania7

CarlisleCarlisle served as a staging point for military operations a→GermantownWashington's October 1777 attack on Germantown nearly succee→PaoliThe Paoli Massacre of September 1777 saw British forces surp→PhiladelphiaThe Declaration of Independence and Constitution were both s→PittsburghFort Pitt anchored American operations in the Ohio Valley. T→Valley ForgeThe Continental Army's winter encampment of 1777-78 transfor→YorkWhen the British occupied Philadelphia, the Continental Cong→

/Virginia8

AlexandriaAlexandria was George Washington's home port and commercial →CharlottesvilleBritish raiders nearly captured Governor Thomas Jefferson at→FredericksburgGeorge Washington spent his formative years near Fredericksb→Mount VernonMount Vernon was George Washington's beloved estate, which h→NorfolkNorfolk was bombarded and burned on January 1, 1776, one of →RichmondRichmond became Virginia's capital during the war and was ra→WilliamsburgVirginia's colonial capital was where Patrick Henry declared→YorktownCornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown in October 1781,→

/South Carolina8

BeaufortBeaufort changed hands during the southern campaign as contr→CamdenThe Battle of Camden in August 1780 destroyed an American ar→CharlestonCharleston's fall in 1780 was the largest American surrender→CowpensDaniel Morgan's victory at Cowpens in January 1781 destroyed→Eutaw SpringsEutaw Springs in September 1781 was the last major engagemen→Fort MoultrieThe palmetto log fort at Sullivan's Island repulsed a Britis→Hobkirk's HillGreene lost the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill in April 1781 but c→Ninety SixThe siege of Ninety Six in 1781 tested American resolve in t→

/Connecticut4

DanburyBritish raiders burned the American supply depot at Danbury →GrotonThe massacre at Fort Griswold during Arnold's raid killed su→New HavenBritish forces raided New Haven in 1779, burning and looting→New LondonBenedict Arnold led the British raid that burned New London →

/North Carolina4

Guilford CourthouseCornwallis won at Guilford Courthouse in March 1781 but lost→Kings MountainFrontier militiamen destroyed a loyalist force at Kings Moun→New BernNorth Carolina's colonial capital saw its community divided →WilmingtonWilmington served as a British base during the southern camp→

/Rhode Island2

NewportNewport hosted Rochambeau's French army from 1780. The allia→ProvidenceProvidence served as Rhode Island's political center when Ne→

/Maryland2

AnnapolisAnnapolis briefly served as the national capital where Congr→BaltimoreBaltimore's harbor launched privateers and received supplies→

/New Hampshire2

ExeterExeter served as New Hampshire's revolutionary capital. The →PortsmouthPortsmouth's shipyard built vessels for the Continental Navy→

/Georgia2

AugustaAugusta changed hands multiple times as the war swept throug→SavannahThe 1779 Franco-American siege of Savannah failed bloodily, →

/Vermont2

BenningtonThe Battle of Bennington in August 1777 destroyed a British →BrattleboroBrattleboro represented the frontier communities that contri→

/Delaware2

DoverDover served as Delaware's capital throughout the war. The s→WilmingtonWilmington sat between Philadelphia and the Chesapeake campa→

/Maine2

CastineThe Penobscot Expedition of 1779 ended in America's worst na→PortlandThen called Falmouth, the town was burned by British naval f→

/West Virginia1

WheelingFort Henry at Wheeling withstood multiple sieges during the →

/Ohio1

MariettaMarietta was founded in 1788 as the Northwest Territory's fi→

/Illinois1

KaskaskiaGeorge Rogers Clark captured Kaskaskia in 1778, extending Am→

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