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/Massachusetts14
ActonActon's company, led by Captain Isaac Davis, was the first t→ArlingtonThen called Menotomy, this town saw the bloodiest combat of →BedfordThe Bedford Flag, carried by Nathaniel Page on April 19, 177→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→LincolnLincoln militia joined the fighting on April 19, 1775, ambus→MarbleheadMarblehead fishermen rowed Washington's army across the Dela→PlymouthThe town that symbolized English settlement in America sent →QuincyQuincy was the birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adam→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→Rome / OriskanyThe Battle of Oriskany (August 6, 1777) was among the Revolu→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→
/Pennsylvania8
CarlisleCarlisle served as a staging point for military operations a→Chadds FordThe Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777) was Washington→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→
/Connecticut5
DanburyBritish raiders burned the American supply depot at Danbury →GrotonThe massacre at Fort Griswold during Arnold's raid killed su→LebanonLebanon was home to Governor Jonathan Trumbull, the only col→New HavenBritish forces raided New Haven in 1779, burning and looting→New LondonBenedict Arnold led the British raid that burned New London →
/North Carolina6
EdentonIn October 1773, fifty-one Edenton women publicly pledged to→Guilford CourthouseCornwallis won at Guilford Courthouse in March 1781 but lost→HalifaxOn April 12, 1776, the Fourth Provincial Congress of North C→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 Island4
/Maryland2
/New Hampshire3
/Georgia2
/Vermont3
/Delaware2
/Maine3
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