Battles

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Battle Location End Date Sort descending
Battle of Lexington and Concord Massachusetts 19-Apr-1775
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga New York 10-May-1775
Battle of Bunker Hill Massachusetts 17-Jun-1775
Battle of Quebec Quebec, Canada 31-Dec-1775
Fortification of Dorchester Heights Massachusetts 04-Mar-1776
Battle of Long Island New York 27-Aug-1776
Battle of Harlem Heights New York 16-Sep-1776
Battle of Valcour Island New York 11-Oct-1776
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge North Carolina 27-Oct-1776
Battle of White Plains New York 28-Oct-1776
Battle of Fort Washington New York 16-Nov-1776
Battle of Trenton New Jersey 26-Dec-1776
Battle of Princeton New Jersey 03-Jan-1777
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga New York 06-Jul-1777
Battle of Oriskany New York 06-Aug-1777
Battle of Bennington New York 16-Aug-1777
Battle of Brandywine Pennsylvania 11-Sep-1777
Battle of Germantown Pennsylvania 04-Oct-1777
Battle of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton New York 06-Oct-1777
Battles of Saratoga New York 07-Oct-1777
Battle of Red Bank (Fort Mercer) New Jersey 22-Oct-1777
Siege of Mud Island Fort (Fort Mifflin) Pennsylvania 15-Nov-1777
Battle of Rhode Island Rhode Island 08-Feb-1778
Battle of Monmouth New Jersey 28-Jun-1778
Battle of Savannah Georgia 29-Dec-1778
Battle of Stony Point New York 15-Jul-1779
Siege of Savannah Georgia 20-Oct-1779
Siege of Charleston South Carolina 12-May-1780
Battle of Waxhaws South Carolina 29-May-1780
Battle of Camden South Carolina 16-Aug-1780
Battle of Kings Mountain South Carolina 07-Oct-1780
Battle of Guilford Courthouse North Carolina 15-Mar-1781
Battle of Chesapeake Capes Virginia — Chesapeake Bay 05-Sep-1781
Battle of Groton Heights Connecticut 06-Sep-1781
Battle of Eutaw Springs South Carolina 08-Sep-1781
Siege of Yorktown Virginia 19-Oct-1781
Battle of Cowpens South Carolina 07-Nov-1781

[George] Mason’s obvious legacy is in his contribution to America’s founding documents: the Declaration of Independence through the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Constitution through his role at the Philadelphia Convention, and the Bill of Rights through his dogged opposition to a Constitution without one. Mason may have taken a circumscribed view of the rights he advocated — limiting the right of representation to white men or restricting freedom of the press to a ban on prior restraint — but he put words on paper that could be given more expansive meanings by later generations.

Jeff Broadwater
George Mason: Forgotten Founder (2006)