American Revolutionary War??

Question

what was the First battle of the Revolution?

Answer 1

There are quite a few different candidates, depending on when you thing the revolution started. (What the Congress said in 190x is pretty irrelevant. Since when have any Congressman known anything about history!) Point Pleasant wasnt even a battle between Americans and Brits... it was just a skirmish with some Indians out on the western frontier with no national consequences at all.

So, there was a famous incident in Maine, and the Burning of the HMS Gaspee and HMS Rose incidents in Rhode Island, the Boston "Massacre", the Boston Tea Party, etc.

But the event that really set things on fire, that instigated major military action by Britain, that got the colonies all in a dither so that they raised troops all up and down the colonies and sent George Washington off to take charge, was the fighting on Lexington Green and at Concord Bridge in Arpil 1775 in which a large number of British regular troops were killed and Boston wound up beseiged.

After that, there was no turning back. It was full scale warfare.

Answer 2

Battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia (officially recognized by the U.S. Congress in 1908 as the first battle of the American Revolution) (10/10/1774)