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This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. The Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists.
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Kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.
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Washington, who would one day become the first American president, accepts an assignment to lead the Continental Army. In 1774, Washington joined the Continental Congress as a delegate from Virginia. The next year, the Congress offered Washington the role of commander in chief of the Continental Army.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Edward Rutledge was the youngest signer, and Benjamin Franklin was the oldest signer. John Hancock's. John Hancock's now-iconic signature on the Declaration is nearly 5 inches
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The British Army successfully moved against the American Continental Army led by George Washington.
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Fought eighteen days. Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis Heights
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Commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops. The most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
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all references to it were confined to a two-party version of the document signed by North Vietnam and the United States. the United States agreed to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and advisors
