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This is when Paul Revere made his famous ride to tell the colonists that the British were coming
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Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British
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Major Battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independance
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George Washington and his troops cross Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy
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The Continental Army under George Washington spends the winter training at Valley Forge
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The Continental Congress adopts the "Stars and Stripes" Flag sewn by Betsy Ross
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France recognized the United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance
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Defined the official government of the United States
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end of the war
