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The names of the three ships were Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver. The destroyed tea was worth an estimated 10,000. In today’s money this would be about equal to a million dollars
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The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774. The idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain much support until after the Port of Boston was closed because of the Boston Tea Party.
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The British suffered extensive loss but the Americans considered the contest an good start to the war.
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While the British drove the Americans from out of Charlestown . The battle was at the time considered to be an American defeat but has since been lifted to the ranks of a heroic stands.
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The British and Canadians drove off the American attack and ended the threat so the British controled Canada
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In 1776, the British set forth to subdue the colonies. They began the effort by recapturing New York. First, they drove Washington off Long Island; then, from lower Harlem.
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The Americans were driven back but were able to draw off from the White Plain position and march into New Jersey while the British returned to Manhattan.
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The British and Germans that attack win the battle
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The battle was a physical and moral victory for Washington and his American troops.
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The Americans outmanoeuvred the British and escaped Cornwallis’ encircling move, although the two regiments, 17th and 55th Foot, must be considered the heroes of the battle.
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The Americans withdrew from Ticonderoga leaving it in British hands.
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The British and Hessians were left occupying the field having driven the Americans from their position on Brandywine Creek.
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The British were left on the field but suffered significantly higher casualties than the Americans, which they could not afford.
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The British won the battle although failing to follow up the success, permitting Washington to withdraw and reform his army behind a fort
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The Americans forced the surrender of Burgoyne’s force.
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As John Paul Jones is fighting the Serapis, the captain of the Serapis ask if he wants to surrender but Jones replys " I have not yet began to fight
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The militia on each side remained consistently unreliable in battle during the war. The one area in which the Tory militia excelled was in assalting their enemies.
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The Americans were driven back but were able to draw off from the White Plain position and march into New Jersey while the British returned to Manhattan.
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The future Americans and French owned the British as they were traped. Last major battle of the Revolution
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When U.S., G.B., French, Spain, Neitherland were their to go over the agrements of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
