Military Events
The land and naval campaigns of 1778, from Valley Forge and Monmouth to the first Franco-British fleet actions at Ushant and St. Lucia.
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Capture of Savannah
The Capture of Savannah on December 29, 1778, opened the British "southern strategy" of the Revol...
Battle of St. Lucia (December 1778)
The Campaign for St. Lucia from December 14–28, 1778 represents the first major naval confrontati...
Battle of Rhode Island
The Battle of Rhode Island, fought on August 29, 1778, on Aquidneck Island near Newport, was the ...
Battle of Ushant (1778)
The Battle of Ushant (also known as the First Battle of Ushant) was fought on July 27, 1778, appr...
George Rogers Clark's Illinois Campaign (1778)
The Illinois Campaign of 1778 was a Virginia militia expedition into the British-held Illinois Co...
War of the Bavarian Succession
The War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–1779) was a conflict between Prussia and Austria over th...
Battle of Monmouth
The Battle of Monmouth was fought on June 28, 1778, near Freehold, New Jersey, between the Contin...
Valley Forge Encampment Ends
On June 19, 1778, the Continental Army departed Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, ending a transformati...
Lafayette's Barren Hill Escape
On May 20, 1778, the Marquis de Lafayette narrowly escaped a British trap at Barren Hill, Pennsyl...
Haudenosaunee Strategic Alliance in 1778
In 1778 the Six Nations Confederacy fractured openly along wartime lines — Mohawk, Seneca, and Ca...
1778: Military Turning Point — From Encampment to Global ...
The year 1778 marks the Continental Army's transformation from a desperate winter encampment into...