British Campaigns

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Boston Campaign
Battle	End Date Sort descending	Commander for British \| Americans
Battle of Bunker Hill	17-Jun-1775	William Howe \| Israel Putnam
Fortification of Dorchester Heights	04-Mar-1776	William Howe \| George Washington

New York and New Jersey Campaign
Battle	End Date Sort descending	Commander for British \| Americans
Battle of Long Island	27-Aug-1776	William Howe \| George Washington
Battle of Harlem Heights	16-Sep-1776	Alexander Leslie \| George Washington
Battle of White Plains	28-Oct-1776	William Howe \| George Washington
Battle of Fort Washington	16-Nov-1776	William Howe \| George Washington
Battle of Trenton	26-Dec-1776	Johann Rall \| George Washington
Battle of Princeton	03-Jan-1777	Charles Mawhood \| George Washington

Saratoga Campaign
Battle	End Date Sort descending	Commander for British \| Americans
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga	06-Jul-1777	William Delaplace \| Ethan Allen
Battle of Oriskany	06-Aug-1777	John Johnson \| Nicholas Herkimer
Battle of Bennington	16-Aug-1777	Friedrich Baum \| John Stark
Battles of Saratoga	07-Oct-1777	John Burgoyne \| Horatio Gates

Philadelphia Campaign
Battle	End Date Sort descending	Commander for British \| Americans
Battle of Brandywine	11-Sep-1777	William Howe \| George Washington
Battle of Germantown	04-Oct-1777	William Howe \| George Washington
Battle of Red Bank (Fort Mercer)	22-Oct-1777	Carl Emil von Donop \| Christopher Greene
Siege of Mud Island Fort (Fort Mifflin)	15-Nov-1777	John Montresor \| militia
Battle of Monmouth	28-Jun-1778	Henry Clinton \| George Washington

Southern Campaign
Battle	End Date Sort descending	Commander for British \| Americans
Battle of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton	06-Oct-1777	Henry Clinton \| George Clinton, James Clinton
Battle of Savannah	29-Dec-1778	Robert Howe \| Archibald Campbell
Siege of Savannah	20-Oct-1779	Augustin Prevost \| Benjamin Lincoln
Siege of Charleston	12-May-1780	Henry Clinton \| Benjamin Lincoln
Battle of Waxhaws	29-May-1780	Benedict Arnold \| Abraham Buford
Battle of Camden	16-Aug-1780	Charles Cornwallis \| Horatio Gates
Battle of Guilford Courthouse	15-Mar-1781	Charles Cornwallis \| Nathanael Greene
Battle of Eutaw Springs	08-Sep-1781	Alexander Stewart \| Nathanael Greene
Siege of Yorktown	19-Oct-1781	Charles Cornwallis \| George Washington
Battle of Cowpens	07-Nov-1781	Banastre Tarleton \| Daniel Morgan

As in the case of his career as commander-in-chief, Washington’s most important act as president was his giving up the office. The significance of his retirement from the presidency is easily overlooked today, but his contemporaries knew what it meant. Most people assumed that Washington might be president as long as he lived, that he would be a kind of elected monarch like the king of Poland. Hence his retirement from the presidency enhanced his moral authority and set a precedent for future presidents.

— Gordon S. Wood

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (2009)