This Month in the American Revolution: Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act and First Continental Congress, Battle of Saratoga and Surrender at Yorktown

From the American Battlefield Trust.

OCTOBER 7, 1763

**   Proclamation of 1763.  King George III banned American colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

OCTOBER 7-23, 1765

**  Stamp Act Congress meets in Philadelphia to discuss  the crisis.

SEPTEMBER  5 -- OCTOBER 26, 1774

**  The First Continental Congress meets at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

OCTOBER 7, 1777

**  Battle of Saratoga, New York, concludes with a major American victory.

OCTOBER 19, 1781

**  British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia. 

--Cooter

This Month in the American Revolution: First Continental Congress, Eutaw Springs, Brandywine, Nathan Hale and Yorktown

From the American Battlefield Trust September 2022 calendar.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1774

**  The First Continental Congress opens at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

SEPTEMBER 8,1781

**  Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina

SEPTEMBER 11, 1777

**  Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania

SEPTEMBER 16, 1776

**  Battle of Harlem Heights, New York

SEPTEMBER 22, 1776

**  British execute Nathan Hale, a soldier in the Continental Army.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1781

**  Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, begins

--Cooter