American Revolutionary War 1775–1783

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Key battles

• Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
• Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
• Siege of Boston (1775)
• Battle of Quebec (1775)
• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (1775)
• Battle of Long Island (1776)
• Battle of Trenton (1776)
• Battle of Fort Washington (1776)
• Battle of Valcour Island (1776)
• Battle of White Plains (1776)
• Battle of Harlem Heights (1776)
• Battle of Trois-Rivières (1776)
• Landing at Kip's Bay (1776)
• Battles of Saratoga (1777)
• Battle of Princeton (1777)
• Battle of Brandywine (1777)
• Battle of Germantown (1777)
• Battle of Bennington (1777)
• Battle of Oriskany (1777)
• Battle of the Assunpink Creek (1777)
• Battle of Monmouth (1778)
• Battle of Wyoming (1778)
• Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779)
• Siege of Savannah (1779)
• Battle of Camden (1780)
• Battle of Waxhaws (1780)
• Siege of Charleston (1780)
• Battle of Kings Mountain (1780)
• Siege of Yorktown (1781)
• Siege of Pensacola (1781)
• Battle of Guilford Court House (1781)

Who lived through the American Revolutionary War

Well-known people alive during 1775–1783:

• Napoleon (1769–1821) — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) — German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) — Austrian composer of the Classical period (1756-1791)
• George Washington (1732–1799) — Founding Father and first U.S. president; soldier and slave owner (1732–1799)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) — German composer (1770-1827)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) — German philosopher (1724-1804)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790) — Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817) — English novelist (1775–1817)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) — German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
• John Adams (1735–1826) — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
• James Cook (1728–1779) — British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
• Francisco Goya (1746–1828) — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) — German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
• Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — Japanese artist (1760-1849)
• James Madison (1751–1836) — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) — President of the United States from 1825 to 1829
• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) — president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
• William Blake (1757–1827) — English poet and artist (1757–1827)
• James Watt (1736–1819) — British engineer (1736–1819)
• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) — Austrian composer (1732–1809)
• James Monroe (1758–1831) — president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)

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