# List of American Revolutionary War battles

vteAmerican Revolutionary War Campaigns and theaters
Boston
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Northern
New York and New Jersey
Saratoga
Philadelphia
Northern after Saratoga
Western
Southern
Gulf Coast
Yorktown
Naval (West Indies) :
vteBoston campaign 1774–1776
1774
Powder Alarm
Suffolk Resolves
1775
Lexington and Concord
Lexington Alarm
Siege of Boston
Thompson's War
Menotomy
Fairhaven
Chelsea Creek
Machias
Bunker Hill
Gloucester
Saint John
Falmouth
Charlottetown
1776
Knox artillery train
Dorchester Heights :
vteCanadian campaign
1775
Ticonderoga
Fort St. Jean
Longue-Pointe
Arnold's expedition
Quebec
1776
Saint-Pierre
The Cedars
Trois-Rivières
Valcour Bay :
vteSouthern theater 1775–17791775
Gunpowder Incident
Kemp's Landing
Snow Campaign
Savage's Old Fields
Great Cane Brake
Great Bridge
1776
Norfolk
Moore's Creek Bridge
Rice Boats
Sullivan's Island
Gwynn's Island
Lindley's Fort
Coweecho River
1777
Thomas Creek
1778
Alligator Bridge
1st Savannah
1779
Beaufort
Van Creek
Kettle Creek
Brier Creek
Chesapeake raid
Stono Ferry
Fort Bute
Lake Pontchartrain
Charles Town
Baton Rouge
2nd Savannah :
vteSaratoga campaign 1777
Fort Ticonderoga
Hubbardton
Fort Anne
Slaying of Jane McCrea
Fort Stanwix
Oriskany
Bennington
Saratoga
Freeman's Farm
Bemis Heights
Forts Clinton and Montgomery
Kingston :
vtePhiladelphia campaign 1777–1778
Bound Brook
Short Hills
Staten Island
Cooch's Bridge
Brandywine
Clouds
Paoli
Germantown
Red Bank
Fort Mifflin
Gloucester
White Marsh
Matson's Ford
Valley Forge
Conway Cabal
Quinton's Bridge
Clow Rebellion
Crooked Billet
Barren Hill
Carlisle Peace Commission
Monmouth :
vteNorthern frontier after 1777
Cobleskill
Wyoming Valley
Big Runaway
German Flatts
Unadilla and Onaquaga
Carleton's Raid
Cherry Valley
Minisink
Sullivan Expedition
Newtown
Boyd and Parker
Royalton Raid
Klock's Field
Johnstown
Cedar Bridge :
vteNew York City area after 1777
Baylor Massacre
Edgar's Lane
Stony Point
Paulus Hook
Young's House
Connecticut Farms (NJ)
1st Long Island
Springfield
Bull's Ferry
Pine's Bridge
2nd Long Island
Delaware Bay :
vteSouthern theater 1780–17831780
1st Mobile
Charleston
Moncks Corner
Lenud's Ferry
Waxhaws
Mobley's Meeting House
Ramsour's Mill
Huck's Defeat
Colson's Mill
Rocky Mount
Hanging Rock
Camden
Fishing Creek
Musgrove Mill
Wahab's Plantation
Black Mingo
Charlotte
McIntyre Farm
Kings Mountain
Shallow Ford
Tearcoat Swamp
Fishdam Ford
Blackstock's Farm
1781
Yorktown Campaign
Richmond
Waters Creek
Cape Henry
Blandford
Spencer's Ordinary
Green Spring
Francisco
Chesapeake
Yorktown
The Village
Cowpens
Cowan's Ford
Torrence's Tavern
Hart's Mill
Summerfield
Pyle's Massacre
Wetzell's Mill
Pensacola
Guilford Court House
Fort Watson
Hobkirk's Hill
Fort Motte
Portevent’s Mill
Augusta
Ninety-Six
House in the Horseshoe
Elizabethtown
Eutaw Springs
Lindley's Mill
Raft Swamp
1782
Videau's Bridge
Wambaw
Combahee River
James Island
1783
Chesapeake Bay :
vteWestern theater
Island Flats
1st Fort Henry
Boonesborough
Illinois
Vincennes
Fort Pitt
Fort Laurens
Chillicothe
St. Louis
Bird's invasion
Piqua
La Balme's Defeat
Fort St. Joseph
Coshocton
Lochry's Defeat
Long Run
Gnadenhütten
Little Mountain
Crawford expedition
Bryan Station
Blue Licks
2nd Fort Henry
Arkansas Post :
vteAtlantic naval theatre
Nassau
Block Island
Turtle Gut Inlet
Barbados
Yarmouth
Capture of USS Hancock
Frederica
North Channel
Charles Town
1st Long Island
1st Cape Henry
Cape Split
Cape Breton
Capture of USS Trumbull
Cape Ann
1st Chesapeake
Capture of HMS Savage
1st Delaware Bay
Halifax
2nd Cape Henry
Hudson Bay
2nd Long Island
2nd Delaware Bay
Kedges Strait
3rd Delaware Bay
2nd Chesapeake Bay :
This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties.
Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war
* Boston campaign (1775–1776)
* Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776)
* New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777)
* Saratoga campaign (1777)
* Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778)
* Yorktown campaign (1781)
* Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781)
* Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
* Western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1777–1782)
* Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War

## Battles (in chronological order)

| Battle | Date | Location | Outcome |
| Powder Alarm* | September 1, 1774 | Massachusetts | British soldiers remove military supplies |
| Storming of Fort William and Mary* | December 14, 1774 | New Hampshire | American insurgents seize powder and shot after brief skirmish. |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord | April 19, 1775 | Massachusetts | American insurgent victory: British forces raiding Concord driven back into Boston with heavy losses. |
| Siege of Boston | April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776 | Massachusetts | American victory: British eventually evacuate Boston after Americans fortify Dorchester heights |
| Gunpowder Incident* | April 20, 1775 | Virginia | Virginia governor Lord Dunmore removes powder to a Royal Navy ship, standoff with American insurgents is resolved peacefully |
| New York Armory Raid* | April 23, 1775 | New York | American victory: Sons of Liberty capture muskets, bayonets and cartridge boxes from the armory at City Hall |
| Capture of Fort Ticonderoga | May 10, 1775 | New York | Major American victory, capture British posts at Ticonderoga and Crown point |
| Battle of Chelsea Creek | May 27–28, 1775 | Massachusetts | American victory - capture of British ship Diana |
| Battle of Machias | June 11–12, 1775 | Massachusetts (present-day Maine) | American forces capture the HM schooner Margaretta |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | June 17, 1775 | Massachusetts | British victory: British drive American forces from the Charlestown peninsula near Boston but suffer heavy losses |
| Capture of Turtle Bay Depot* | July 20, 1775 | New York | American victory: Sons of Liberty capture storehouse and magazine |
| Battle of Gloucester | August 8, 1775 | Massachusetts | American victory |
| Raid on the Battery | August 23, 1775 | New York | American victory: 23 royal cannon from The Battery were taken under fire from HMS Asia offshore |
| Siege of Fort St. Jean | September 17 – November 3, 1775 | Quebec | American victory - capture of British force and subsequently overrun Montreal and much of Quebec |
| Battle of Longue-Pointe | September 25, 1775 | Quebec | British victory |
| Burning of Falmouth | October 18, 1775 | Massachusetts | British burn Falmouth |
| Battle of Kemp's Landing | November 14, 1775 | Virginia | British victory |
| Siege of Savage's Old Fields | November 19–21, 1775 | South Carolina | American insurgent victory - defeat of British loyalist force |
| Battle of Great Bridge | December 9, 1775 | Virginia | American victory: Lord Dunmore's loyalist force is defeated |
| Snow Campaign | December 1775 | South Carolina | American insurgent victory; a campaign against loyalists in South Carolina |
| Battle of Great Cane Break | December 22, 1775 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Quebec | December 31, 1775 | Quebec | British victory: British repulse American assault on Quebec city |
| Burning of Norfolk | January 1, 1776 | Virginia | British bombard Norfolk; Americans destroy what they see as a loyalist stronghold |
| Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge | February 27, 1776 | North Carolina | American victory: loyalist force of Regulators and Highlanders defeated |
| Battle of the Rice Boats | March 2–3, 1776 | Georgia | British victory |
| Raid of Nassau | March 3–4, 1776 | Bahamas | American victory. They raided against the Bahamas to obtain supplies |
| Battle of Saint-Pierre | March 25, 1776 | Quebec | American victory |
| Battle of Block Island | April 6, 1776 | Rhode Island | British victory |
| Battle of The Cedars | May 18–27, 1776 | Quebec | British victory |
| Battle of Trois-Rivières | June 8, 1776 | Quebec | British victory: Americans forced to evacuate Quebec |
| Battle of Sullivan's Island | June 28, 1776 | South Carolina | American victory: British attack on Charleston is repulsed |
| Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet | June 29, 1776 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Gwynn's Island | July 8–10, 1776 | Virginia | American victory |
| Battle of Lindley's Fort | July 15, 1776 | South Carolina | American victory: Native Americans' attack repulsed |
| Battle of Long Island | August 27, 1776 | New York | British victory: in the largest battle of the war the American army of George Washington is outflanked and routed on Long Island but later manages to evacuate to Manhattan |
| Landing at Kip's Bay | September 15, 1776 | New York | British victory: British capture New York City and hold it for the duration of the war |
| Battle of Harlem Heights | September 16, 1776 | New York | American victory: Americans repulse British attack on Manhattan |
| Battle of Coweecho River | September 19, 1776 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Valcour Island | October 11, 1776 | New York | British victory: British defeat American naval force on Lake Champlain, but victory comes too late to press the offensive against the Hudson valley |
| Battle of Mamaroneck | October 22, 1776 | New York | British tactical victory |
| Battle of White Plains | October 28, 1776 | New York | British victory |
| Battle of Fort Cumberland | November 10–29, 1776 | Nova Scotia | British victory |
| Battle of Fort Washington | November 16, 1776 | New York | British victory: British capture 3,000 Americans on Manhattan in one of the most devastating defeats of the Continental Army in the war |
| Battle of Fort Lee | November 20, 1776 | New Jersey | British victory: Americans begin general retreat |
| Ambush of Geary | December 14, 1776 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Iron Works Hill | December 22–23, 1776 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Battle of Trenton | December 26, 1776 | New Jersey | American victory: Americans capture Hessian detachment at Trenton |
| Second Battle of Trenton | January 2, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Princeton | January 3, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory: Americans defeat a small British force, the British decide to evacuate New Jersey |
| Battle of Millstone | January 20, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Forage War | January–March 1777 | New Jersey | Americans harass remaining British forces in New Jersey |
| Battle of Punk Hill | March 8, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Bound Brook | April 13, 1777 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Battle of Ridgefield | April 27, 1777 | Connecticut | British victory |
| Battle of Thomas Creek | May 17, 1777 | East Florida | British victory |
| Meigs Raid | May 24, 1777 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Short Hills | June 26, 1777 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Siege of Fort Ticonderoga | July 5–6, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| Battle of Hubbardton | July 7, 1777 | Vermont | British victory |
| Battle of Fort Ann | July 8, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| Siege of Fort Stanwix | August 2–23, 1777 | New York | American victory: British fail to take Fort Stanwix |
| Battle of Oriskany | August 6, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| Second Battle of Machias | August 13–14, 1777 | Massachusetts (present-day Maine) | British victory |
| Battle of Bennington | August 16, 1777 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Staten Island | August 22, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| Battle of Setauket | August 22, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| First Siege of Fort Henry | September 1 or 21, 1777 | Virginia | American victory |
| Battle of Cooch's Bridge | September 3, 1777 | Delaware | British victory |
| Battle of Brandywine | September 11, 1777 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Battle of the Clouds | September 16, 1777 | Pennsylvania | Battle called off due to rain |
| Battle of Freeman's Farm | September 19, 1777 | New York | British tactical victory: First of the two Battles of Saratoga |
| Battle of Paoli | September 21, 1777 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Siege of Fort Mifflin | September 26 – November 15, 1777 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Battle of Germantown | October 4, 1777 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery | October 6, 1777 | New York | British victory |
| 2nd Battle of Saratoga | October 7, 1777 | New York | American victory: Also called the Battle of Bemis Heights. British under Burgoyne driven back and forced to surrender 10 days later; American victory demonstrates to France that the Americans can win; Franco-American treaty follows in 1778. |
| Battle of Red Bank | October 22, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Gloucester | November 25, 1777 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of White Marsh | December 5–8, 1777 | Pennsylvania | American victory |
| Battle of Matson's Ford | December 11, 1777 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Battle of Barbados | March 7, 1778 | Barbados | British victory |
| Battle of Quinton's Bridge | March 18, 1778 | New Jersey | British victory |
| North Channel Naval Duel | April 24, 1778 | Great Britain | American victory |
| Battle of Crooked Billet | May 1, 1778 | Pennsylvania | British victory |
| Battle of Barren Hill | May 20, 1778 | Pennsylvania | Indecisive |
| Mount Hope Bay raids | May 25–30, 1778 | Rhode Island | British victory |
| Battle of Cobleskill | May 30, 1778 | New York | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of Monmouth | June 28, 1778 | New Jersey | Draw: British break off engagement and continue retreat to New York |
| Battle of Alligator Bridge | June 30, 1778 | East Florida | British victory |
| Battle of Wyoming | July 3, 1778 | Pennsylvania | British-Iroquois victory |
| First Battle of Ushant | July 27, 1778 | Bay of Biscay | Indecisive |
| Battle of Newport | August 29, 1778 | Rhode Island | British victory |
| Grey's raid | September 5–17, 1778 | Massachusetts | British victory |
| Invasion of Dominica | September 7, 1778 | Dominica | French victory |
| Siege of Boonesborough | September 7, 1778 | Virginia | American victory |
| Attack on German Flatts | September 17, 1778 | New York | British-Iroquois victory |
| Baylor Massacre | September 27, 1778 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Battle of Edgar's Lane | September 30, 1778 | New York | American victory |
| Raid on Unadilla and Onaquaga | October 2–16, 1778 | Indian Reserve | American victory |
| Battle of Chestnut Neck | October 6, 1778 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Affair at Little Egg Harbor | October 16, 1778 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Carleton's Raid | October 24-November 14, 1778 | Vermont | British victory |
| Cherry Valley Massacre | November 11, 1778 | New York | British-Iroquois victory |
| Action of 12 December 1779 | December 15, 1778 | Honduras | British victory |
| Capture of St. Lucia | December 18–28, 1778 | St. Lucia | British victory |
| Capture of Savannah | December 29, 1778 | Georgia | British victory |
| Battle of Beaufort | February 3, 1779 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Kettle Creek | February 14, 1779 | Georgia | American victory |
| Siege of Fort Vincennes | February 23–25, 1779 | Indiana | American victory |
| Battle of Brier Creek | March 3, 1779 | Georgia | British victory |
| Battle of Chillicothe | May 1779 | Quebec | American victory |
| Chesapeake raid | May 10–24, 1779 | Virginia | British victory |
| Capture of Saint Vincent | June 16–18, 1779 | St. Vincent | French victory |
| Battle of Stono Ferry | June 20, 1779 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Great Siege of Gibraltar | June 24, 1779 – February 7, 1783 | Gibraltar | British victory |
| Capture of Grenada | July 2, 1779 | Grenada | French victory |
| Tryon's raid | July 5–14, 1779 | Connecticut | British victory |
| Battle of Grenada | July 6, 1779 | Grenada | French victory |
| Battle of Stony Point | July 16, 1779 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Minisink | July 22, 1779 | New York | British-Iroquois victory |
| Penobscot Expedition | July 24-August 29, 1779 | Massachusetts | British victory |
| Battle of Paulus Hook | August 19, 1779 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of Newtown | August 29, 1779 | Indian Reserve | American victory |
| Capture of Fort Bute | September 7, 1779 | West Florida | American-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Lake Pontchartrain | September 10, 1779 | West Florida | American victory |
| Boyd and Parker ambush | September 13, 1779 | Indian Reserve | British-Iroquois victory |
| Action of 14 September 1779 | September 14, 1779 | Azores | British victory |
| Siege of Savannah | September 16-October 18, 1779 | Georgia | British victory |
| Battle of Baton Rouge | September 20–21, 1779 | West Florida | American-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Flamborough Head | September 23, 1779 | Great Britain | American victory |
| Action of 6 October 1779 | October 6, 1779 | France | French victory |
| Battle of San Fernando de Omoa | October 16-November 29, 1779 | Guatemala | British victory |
| Action of 11 November 1779 | November 11, 1779 | Portugal | British victory |
| Action of 20 November 1779 | November 20, 1779 | Portugal | British victory |
| First Battle of Martinique | December 18, 1779 | Martinique | British victory |
| Action of 8 January 1780 | January 8, 1780 | Spain | British victory |
| Battle of Cape St. Vincent | January 16, 1780 | Portugal | British victory |
| Battle of Young's House | February 3, 1780 | New York | British victory |
| Battle of Van Creek | February 11, 1780 | Georgia | Loyalist victory |
| San Juan Expedition | March–November, 1780 | Guatemala | American-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Fort Charlotte | March 2–14, 1780 | West Florida | American -Spanish victory |
| Siege of Charleston | March 29-May 12, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory: British recapture South Carolina following the battle |
| Battle of Monck's Corner | April 14, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Second Battle of Martinique | April 17, 1780 | Martinique | American victory |
| Battle of Lenud's Ferry | May 6, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Bird's invasion of Kentucky | May 25-August 4, 1780 | Virginia | British victory |
| Battle of St. Louis | May 25, 1780 | Louisiana (present-day Missouri) | Patriot-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Waxhaws | May 29, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Connecticut Farms | June 7, 1780 | New Jersey | British victory |
| Battle of Mobley's Meeting House | June 10–12, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Ramsour's Mill | June 20, 1780 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Springfield | June 23, 1780 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Huck's Defeat | July 12, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Bull's Ferry | July 20–21, 1780 | New Jersey | Loyalist victory |
| Battle of Colson's Mill | July 21, 1780 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Rocky Mount | August 1, 1780 | South Carolina | Loyalist victory |
| Battle of Hanging Rock | August 6, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Pekowee | August 8, 1780 | Quebec | American victory |
| Action of 9 August 1780 | August 9, 1780 | Atlantic | Franco-Spanish victory |
| Action of 10 August 1780 | August 10, 1780 | France | British victory |
| Action of 13 August 1780 | August 13, 1780 | Ireland | British victory |
| Battle of Camden | August 16, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Fishing Creek | August 18, 1780 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Musgrove Mill | August 18, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Black Mingo | August 28, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Wahab's Plantation | September 20, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Charlotte | September 26, 1780 | North Carolina | British victory |
| Action of 30 September 1780 | September 30, 1780 | Bermuda | British victory |
| Battle of McIntyre Farm | October 3, 1780 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | October 7, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory: halts first British invasion of North Carolina |
| Battle of Shallow Ford | October 14, 1780 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Royalton Raid | October 16, 1780 | Vermont | British victory |
| Battle of Klock's Field | October 19, 1780 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Tearcoat Swamp | October 25, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| La Balme's Defeat | November 5, 1780 | Quebec | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of Fishdam Ford | November 9, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Blackstock's Farm | November 20, 1780 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Fort St. George | November 23, 1780 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Jersey | January 6, 1781 | Jersey | British victory |
| Battle of Mobile | January 7, 1781 | West Florida | American-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Cowpens | January 17, 1781 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Cowan's Ford | February 1, 1781 | North Carolina | British victory |
| Capture of Sint Eustatius | February 3, 1781 | Sint Eustatius | British victory |
| Battle of Summerfield | February 12, 1781 | North Carolina | Patriot victory |
| Battle of Harts Mill | February 17, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Haw River | February 24, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Wetzell's Mill | March 6, 1781 | North Carolina | British victory |
| Siege of Pensacola | March 9-May 8, 1781 | West Florida | American-Spanish victory |
| Battle of Guilford Court House | March 15, 1781 | North Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Cape Henry | March 16, 1781 | Virginia | British strategic victory, tactically indecisive |
| Siege of Fort Watson | April 15–23, 1781 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Porto Praya | April 15, 1781 | Cape Verde | Draw |
| Battle of Blandford | April 25, 1781 | Virginia | British victory |
| Battle of Hobkirk's Hill | April 25, 1781 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Fort Royal | April 29, 1781 | Martinique | French victory |
| Action of 1 May 1781 | May 1, 1781 | France | British victory |
| Battle of Fort Motte | May 8–12, 1781 | South Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Pine's Bridge | May 14, 1781 | New York | Loyalist victory |
| Battle of Portevent's Mill | May 16, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Siege of Augusta | May 22-June 6, 1781 | Georgia | American victory |
| Siege of Ninety-Six | May 22-June 18, 1781 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Invasion of Tobago | May 24-June 2, 1781 | Tobago | French victory |
| Action of 30 May 1781 | May 30, 1781 | Barbary Coast | British victory |
| Battle of Spencer's Ordinary | June 26, 1781 | Virginia | British victory |
| Francisco's Fight | July 1781 | Virginia | American victory |
| Battle of Green Spring | July 6, 1781 | Virginia | British victory |
| Naval battle of Louisbourg | July 21, 1781 | Nova Scotia | Franco-American victory |
| Battle of Dogger Bank | August 5, 1781 | North Sea | British victory |
| Battle of Piqua | August 8, 1781 | Ohio | American victory |
| Invasion of Minorca | August 19, 1781 – February 5, 1782 | Minorca | Franco-Spanish victory |
| Lochry's Defeat | August 24, 1781 | Quebec | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of Elizabethtown | August 27, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of the Chesapeake | September 5, 1781 | Virginia | French victory |
| Battle of Groton Heights | September 6, 1781 | Connecticut | British victory |
| Battle of Eutaw Springs | September 8, 1781 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Battle of Lindley's Mill | September 13, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Long Run Massacre | September 13, 1781 | Virginia | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of Yorktown | September 28-October 19, 1781 | Virginia | Franco-American victory: Cornwallis surrenders his entire force of over 7,000; escape blocked by the French navy. Last major land battle of the war. |
| Battle of Fort Slongo | October 3, 1781 | New York | American victory |
| Battle of Raft Swamp | October 15, 1781 | North Carolina | American victory |
| Battle of Johnstown | October 25, 1781 | New York | American victory |
| Second Battle of Ushant | December 12, 1781 | Bay of Biscay | British victory |
| Battle of Videau's Bridge | January 2, 1782 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Siege of Brimstone Hill | January 11-February 13, 1782 | St. Christopher | Franco-American victory |
| Action of 15 January 1782 | January 15, 1782 | Jamaica | British victory |
| Capture of Demerara and Essequibo | January 22-February 5, 1782 | Demerara and Essequibo | Franco-American victory |
| Battle of Saint Kitts | January 25–26, 1782 | St. Christopher | British victory |
| Capture of Montserrat | February 22, 1782 | Montserrat | French victory |
| Battle of Wambaw | February 24, 1782 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Gnadenhütten massacre | March 8, 1782 | Ohio | |
| Battle of Roatán | March 16, 1782 | Guatemala | American-Spanish victory |
| Action of 16 March 1782 | March 16, 1782 | Strait of Gibraltar | British victory |
| Battle of Little Mountain | March 22, 1782 | Virginia | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of Delaware Bay | April 8, 1782 | New Jersey | American victory |
| Battle of the Saintes | April 9–12, 1782 | Dominica | British victory |
| Battle of the Black River | April–August, 1782 | Guatemala | British victory |
| Battle of the Mona Passage | April 19, 1782 | Mona passage | British victory |
| Action of 20–21 April 1782 | April 20–21, 1782 | Bay of Biscay | British victory |
| Capture of the Bahamas | May 6, 1782 | Bahamas | Patriot-Spanish victory |
| Crawford expedition | May 25-June 12, 1782 | Quebec | British-Iroquois victory |
| Naval battle off Halifax | May 28–29, 1782 | Nova Scotia | British victory |
| Raid on Chester | June 30, 1782 | Nova Scotia | British victory |
| Raid on Lunenburg | July 1, 1782 | Nova Scotia | American kvictory |
| Hudson Bay Expedition | August 8, 1782 | Rupert's Land | Franco-American victory |
| Siege of Bryan Station | August 15–17, 1782 | Virginia | American victory |
| Battle of Blue Licks | August 19, 1782 | Virginia | British-Iroquois victory |
| Battle of the Combahee River | August 27, 1782 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Action of 4 September 1782 | September 4, 1782 | France | British victory |
| Action of 5 September 1782 | 5 September 1782 | Long Island | Inconclusive |
| Siege of Fort Henry | September 11–13, 1782 | Virginia | American victory |
| Grand Assault on Gibraltar | September 13, 1782 | Gibraltar | British victory |
| Action of 15 September 1782 | 15 September 1782 | Delaware Bay | British victory |
| Action of 18 October 1782 | October 18, 1782 | Hispaniola | British victory |
| Battle of James Island | November 14, 1782 | South Carolina | British victory |
| Action of 6 December 1782 | December 6, 1782 | Martinique | British victory |
| Battle of the Delaware Capes | 20 - 21 December 1782 | Cape May | British victory |
| Battle of Cedar Bridge | December 27, 1782 | New Jersey | American victory: Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas engaged John Bacon and his Loyalist bandits (known now as "Refugees") at Cedar Bridge. A brief exchange of gunfire took place, and Bacon and his men were able to escape. This was the last land battle in the U.S. |
| Action of 2 January 1783 | January 2, 1783 | Hispaniola | Inconclusive |
| Action of 22 January 1783 | January 22, 1783 | Virginia | British victory |
| Action of 15 February 1783 | February 15, 1783 | Guadeloupe | British victory |
| Action of 17 February 1783 | 17 February 1783 | Cuba | British victory |
| Recapture of the Bahamas | 14–18 April 1783 | Bahamas | British victory |
| Battle of Arkansas Post | 17 April 1783 | Louisiana (present-day Arkansas) | Spanish Victory |