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British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians. -
It was a political protest between the American colonists, frustrated and angry at the British for putting a tax law on tea. So the colonist dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. -
British and American soldiers fired in the towns of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. -
The American patriots were defeated by the British -
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to the Great Britain -
The Americans suffered 1,000 casualties, while the British only lost 400. So the British took the advantage and took new york -
Washington's army crossed Delaware on Christmas and over 10 days, he won two crucial battles. -
It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army
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12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children marched into Valley Forge and began to build what essentially became the fourth largest city in the colonies at the time, with 1,500 log huts and two miles of fortifications.
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indecisive engagement in the American Revolution, fought at Monmouth, New Jersey. -
The British launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia. -
Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution -
The British surrendered to George Washington