The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution
British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War.
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
