Boston Massacre

- Battle of Lexington and Concord - the Battle of Quebec - Boston siege - Bunker Hill - Battle of Long Is land - Battle of Kip s bay - Battle of Valcour - Harlem Heights - Pell s Point - Pelham - White Plains -- Battle of Pell s Poin t - Battle of White Plains - Fort Washington - Trenton - Princeton - Bound Brook - Ticonderoga - Fort Hook - Battle of Oriskany - Saratoga - Camden - Savannah - Cowpens - battle of Ushant (1778) - Yorktown -- Battle of the Chesapeake Battle of Long Island was fought on August 27, 1776, during a campaign in New York during the American War of Independence. August 22, Admiral Lord Richard Howe, British commander in chief in the area of New York ordered the departure of the Continental Army against the dawn. American outpost of Colonel Edward Handa sent a message to Washington that the British were preparing to enter on Long Island from Staten Island, occupied by them July 3 forces 22,000 people. Under the overall command of General Sir William Howe, the operational command of Generals: Lord Charles Cornwallis and Sir Henry Clinton, British forces had gathered 4,000 people.