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  The colonies were wholly interested in overcoming the French in North America and appealed to the King for permission to raise armies and monies to defend themselves.
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  The British suffer a humiliating and costly defeat at Fort Carrillon,
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  Governor-General Vaudreuil of New France surrenders Montreal, the last French stronghold in North America
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  George III was one of the longest reigning British Monarchs
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  The Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending the French and Indian War. Signed on 3 November 1762
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  the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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  Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies.
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  British soldiers and Boston workers resumed the fights of the previous week.
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  The american revolution began in april 19, 1775
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  was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain.
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  Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence in the morning of a bright, sunny, but cool Philadelphia day.
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  Jefferson, at the request of the committee, drafts a declaration, of which only a fragment exists.
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