This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties.
Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war
- Boston campaign (1774–76)
- Invasion of Canada (1775–76)
- New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–77)
- Saratoga campaign (1777)
- Philadelphia campaign (1777–78)
- Yorktown campaign (1781)
- Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–81)
- Gulf Coast campaign (1779–82)
- Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
- Western theater of the American Revolutionary War (1777–82)
- Caribbean theater of the American Revolutionary War (1778–83)
- Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War
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