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Captain Ball was spared punishment, but the three Charleston merchants who commissioned the tea were forced to walk down to the harbor and drop the seven chests of tea overboard. The Gazette reported that "on November 3, 1774, at noon, an Oblation was made to Neptune."
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Began the American Revolution. No one knows who shot it.
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It formally severed political and economic ties between American and Great Britain.
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Washington’s men became a fighting machine there.
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Which should have been a Patriot victory, was a British victory. This led to the French not sending supplies and reinforcements as early as they had intended.
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The first major Patriot victory in the South, making it the turning point battle of the War.
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A Patriot victory that pushes the British out of SC.
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Last major battle in SC; British tactical victory, Patriot strategic advantage; the British were cut off from their major cities and they couldn’t stop the movement of supplies.
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A Patriot victory, became the last battle of the War; General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
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Officially ending the American Revolution, as well as changing the boundaries of American and other British colonies.