Video: 'John Adams Suggests Mass. Militas Join Together to Create Continental Army'
(Thursday, June 15, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The Second Continental Congress elected George Washington, 43, as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army today by unanimous vote.
Video: 'John Adams Suggests Mass. Militas Join Together to Create Continental Army'
(Wednesday, June 14, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The Second Continental Congress decided today to proceed with the establishment of a Continental Army for purposes of common defense, adopting the forces already in place outside Boston and New York.
Video: 'The Revolution Part01 Boston Bloody Boston' (Apr. 19, 1775, at 32:30)
(Wednesday, April 19, 1775, 5:00 a.m.; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War began today with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.
Video: 'Celebrating Evacuation Day'
(Tuesday, November 25, 1783, noon; following the American Revolutionary War) — The British today evacuated New York, their last military position in the United States during the Revolutionary War.
