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he was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
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he was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War.
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was a massive war involving Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden.
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the stamp act was the tax on any paper you can buy. you would need a stamp to prove you payed for it
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the boston massacre was a street fight between the patriots and the British troops
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the tea tax was passed so the govermantcan pay for the french and indian war.
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the sons of liberty dump the tea into the harbor
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
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this is the night were the british were invading the town so paul rever rode warning
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british troops march to the citys
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the congress meets a second time
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mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hil
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statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states,
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was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence
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the first move in a planned surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessians
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during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.
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The British wanted to take control of the Hudson River Valley to cut off New England from the other colonies. General Burgoyne with 7,700 troops approached Albany, New York, from Canada
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Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter
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The British, since the end of the French and Indian War, had made a great effort to keep the Indians friendly to them in the area of what is now Southern Illinois and Ohio. By the time of the Revolution, they had turned the Indians against the colonists who were encroaching on the Indian hunting grounds.
