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Battle of Lexington & Concord
British General, Thomas Gage, sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns. the colonists had stored in the town of Concord outside of Boston. -
Boston Massacre
the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War -
Boston Tea Party
officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The leaders of the colonial forced boston learned that the british generals were planing to send troops out from the city. -
Battle of New York
British troops landed on Staten Island. -
Declaration of Independence Signing
announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states. -
Battle of Trenton
the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. -
Battle of Princeton
George Washington was motivated to strike again against British positions in New Jersey. -
Battle of Saratoga
decided the fate of BritishBattle of Saratoga General John Burgoyne's army in the American Revolutionary War, and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. -
Valley Forge
Washington's poorly fed, ill-equipped army, weary from long marches, struggled into Valley Forge, winds blew as the 12,000 Continentals prepared for winter's fury. -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington and Rochambeau's troops arrived -
Treaty of Paris (the one that ended the Revolutionary War)
formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule.
