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What? No they didn't.
They repeatedly abandoned cities. House to house fighting was way too difficult, the Americans didn't have an adequate supply of bayonets, and urban warfare was a crazy plan even at the best of times because the whole thing could burn down.
No armed American resistance fought for control of Boston when the British occupied it. They besieged Boston, and surrounded it with Artillery, causing the British to then abandon it.
No armed American resistance fought for control of New York. After the Battle of Long Island, the Americans made mild attempts to keep the British from landing, but they eventually just evacuated.
The Americans abandoned Philadelphia, their capital.
The Americans surrendered to a British siege in Charleston (SC). They did not fight house to house.
The Americans repeatedly abandoned the control of cities because urban warfare was dangerous for all but crack infantry with excellent equipment. It's also a defensive fucking nightmare. It made more sense to burn towns than it was to waste time fighting in them. It's why the British burned Charlestown (MA) when they tried to push the Americans off of Bunker/Breed's Hill.
The Americans abandoned cities because it was basically lunacy to try and fight in them. Normally, towns and buildings were used for sniper fire (like at Bennington & Concord), or specific buildings were used as defensive strong-points (like the 1st Maryland's defense of the Church on Long Island to cover the American rout). The Americans did launch attacks on Trenton & Princeton because in both cases the British/Prussian garrison was completely unaware of their presence.
This is such a standard practice in the Napoleonic era that it's why civilian casualties were dramatically small in even the largest wars. Literally only 1 Gettysburg civilian died at the Battle of Gettysburg. She got hit by a stray round.
If you ever go on a ghost tour of Gettysburg, they always stop by that house. Supposedly the bullet hole is still there, but I really doubt the original wood lasted this long, I think they mocked it up as a prop
The would could have lasted if they had been actively preserving it, but I doubt that that's the case. They've repeatedly had to rebuild lots of Gettysburg.
On a side note, I'd never learned that the Americans didn't have proper, muzzle attachable, bayonets for most of their battles and units. When I found that out, suddenly, a lot of British military behavior made sense, but their commentary is infuriating. All those aggressive frontal assaults make sense because if you get close to the Americans... they have to break. They literally do not have bayonets and literally can't defend themselves from a charge. Meanwhile the British letters are all "haw haw haw, the Americans run from the bayonet. What cowards!" That's bullshit. Your rifles have pointy bits. Of course the Americans aren't going to get stabbed in the gut. No wonder they started shooting from 100 yards.
Simultaneously, it really gives credit to the Americans at the Battle of Germantown. They made a ballsy fucking charge right into the British lines, through a town, with close artillery support, under cover of fog, but with no bayonets. That's great to have those advantages, but make no mistake, charging a defensive position that has bayonets when you don't have one... is super sketch.