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British General, Thomas Gage, sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns. the colonists had stored in the town of Concord outside of Boston.
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the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War
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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.
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The leaders of the colonial forced boston learned that the british generals were planing to send troops out from the city.
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British troops landed on Staten Island.
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announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states.
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the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.
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George Washington was motivated to strike again against British positions in New Jersey.
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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.
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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.
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Washington and Rochambeau's troops arrived
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formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule.
