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Boston Massacre
A confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was highly publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American Colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation," dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
In the Battles of Lexington and Concord, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the two Massachusetts towns -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Some 2,200 British forces under the command of Major General William Howe and Brigadier General Robert Pigot landed on the Charlestown Peninsula then marched to Breed's Hill. -
Declaration of Independence
The goals of this document were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. -
British Capture New York
At the Battle of Brooklyn, the Americans suffered 1,000 casualties to the British loss of only 400 men. New York City was captured by the British -
Battle of Trenton
General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. -
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Saratoga
The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
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Valley Forge
On December 19th, 1777, 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. -
Battle of Monmouth
The British surrender at Saratoga brought the French into the war as American allies. -
British Capture of Savannah
British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia. -
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British Capture of Charleston
During the American Revolution, British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina, the principal port city of the southern American colonies. -
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Battle of Yorktown
On September 28th, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.