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French & Indian War
The war happened when the british wanted to take over the the english colony to make it into a fur trading post. It ended sometime in 1763. -
Boston Tea Party
Some colonists from Boston sailed a ship into the Boston Harbor and it had a bunch of tea in it and they dumped it into the Boston harbor. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act ment that every printed piece of paper had to have a printed stamp on it. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an event of a whole bunch of colonist who were agrivating the british soliders and throughing rocks and hiting the british soliders with sticks so the soliders shot at the colonists five of the men were shot to death others wounded. -
Tea Tax
The tea tax was the event that the british started puting taxes on everything like cards and tea for the british army like guns and ammo. -
Midnight Ride
it was when Paul Rever went through lexington and concord warning the colinists about the british. -
Battle Of Lexington & Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was an order by british General Tomas Gage to destroy all the guns and ammothe colonist had stored in the town of Concord they also planned to arrest Samuel Addams and John Hancock. -
Battle Of Buncker Hill
It was a fight between the british and the english and the british won the big battle. -
Molly Pitcher
Born to German immigrants on Oct. 13, 1754 married a soldier by the name of John Casper Hays died on January 22 1832. -
Decloration Of Independance
It was a contract that people sighned to have all equal right and to have seprate states. -
George Rogers Clark
At 26, George Rogers Clark was a confident frontiersman with a vision that would nearly double the size of his country in one stroke. A red-haired six-footer, Clark was a knowledgeable frontiersman, an outstanding field commander, and extremely confident of his abilities to move and persuade anyone to do what was necessary to succeed against formidable odds of time, money, and manpower. -
Battle Of Long Island
The British recognized the strategic importance of New York as the focal point for communications between the northern and southern colonies. Washington also recognized this, and in April of 1776 he marched his troops from Boston to New York. He positioned his troops on the western end of Long Island in anticipation of the British arrival. The American outpost of Colonel Edward Hand's sent word that the British were preparing to cross Long Island from Staten Island on August 22, at dawn. -
Battle Of Trention
On December 26th, Washington's Army crossed the Delaware and surprised the British at Trenton. The main attack was made by 2,400 troops under Washington on the Hessian Garrison. Washington's troops acheived total surprise and defeated the British forces. The American victory was the first of the war, and helped to restore American morale. -
Lord Cornwallis/Yorktown
British General and colonial governor Charles Cornwallis was born on Dec. 31, 1738, and died on Oct. 5, 1805. Cornwallis was the eldest son of the 1st Earl Cornwallis. Educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge, he became an Ensign in the 1st (Grenadier) Guards just before his 18th birthday. -
Crossing Of Delaware
The crossing was washington crossing the delaware river in dead of night to go and attack the british while they were drunk and gambeling. -
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Connecticut on June 6, 1755. At age 14, he enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. While at Yale, he became close friends with Benjamin Tallmadge, a fellow Yale student who would later become George Washington's head of intelligence during the Revolutionary War. Hale graduated from Yale with honors and became a school teacher in nearby East Hadaam, and later in New London. When the war began, he joined the Connecticut militia and became a first se -
Battle Of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga, comprising two significant battles during September and October of 1777, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The Battle was the impetus for France to enter the war against Britain, re-invigorating Washington’s Continental Army and providing much needed supplies and support -
Burning Of the Boston Tax Office
The colinist burned down the tax office because they didn't agree with the british -
Valley Forge
It was a place where the american army made there camp in winter. -
Vincennes
King George III's Proclamation of 1763 gave the Indians the land west Appalachian Mountains for their Hunting Grounds. The British used this to their advantage. Colonel Henry Hamilton of the British Army paid the Indians for any colonist scalps. This, of course, encouraged the Indians to attack the white colonists and at the same time protected the British because they did not want to lose the money they were receiving.
