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credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War.
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These two battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies on the mainland of British America.
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inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
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was adopted and in finalization of becoming independent from the british
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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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site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War.