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This event marked the start of the American war of independance
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This battle influenced Francis Scott Key to write the words that eventually come to what we know as the National Anthem
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Congress adopted the Star Spangled Banner as the National anthem as a way for us to remember when America got it's independence.
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The Battle of the Alamo is part of the Texas Revolution where the Mexican won causing Texas to gain independence and become it's own self-governing republic.
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The Battle of Bull Run was the first battle of the American Civil War.
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After an unknown explosion of the USS Maine shattering relations with Spain causing the declaration of war in April of 1898.