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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 Gottlieb 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

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.

Joseph J. Ellis
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (1993)