The most inadvertently prophetic words that Adams ever uttered were his last: Thomas Jefferson survives.
For it was the Jeffersonian image that broke free of the aggregated anonymity, the founders
or the fathers,
and eventually ascended into heaven with Washington. During the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Jeffersonian legacy became the most adaptable and all-purpose political touchstone in American political history.
British Campaigns
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 |
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 Gottlieb Rall | George Washington |
Battle of Princeton | 03-Jan-1777 | Charles Mawhood | George Washington |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993)