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Both battles were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. It was a 15 minute battle that ended the same day.
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This battle started and ended the same day. It took the whole day for the battle. It was a British Victory
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The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights. was a defeat for the Continental Army under General George Washington and the beginning of a successful campaign that gave the British control of the city of New York.
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George Washington—Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army—devised a plan to cross the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26 and surround the Hessian garrison.
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ritish General William Howe set out to capture the city of Philadelphia. His reasons for the decision: It was the largest city in English North America, the seat of Congress, populated by numerous Loyalists, part of a fertile region, and could be supplied from the sea using the Delaware River
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Ended October 7, 1777 marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution.
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a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British
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A treaty between the French and it's allies and Britain. The treaty document was signed in Paris at the Hotel d'York by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay (representing the United States), and David Hartley (a member of the British Parliament representing the British monarch, King George III).
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Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
