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-GB: Lt.-Gen. Hugh Percy, Major John Pitcairn, Major-Gen. Francis Smith
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-Colonists: Col. James Barrett, Col. John Buttrick, Dr. Joseph Warren, John Parker, William Heath
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-First battle of war and the British went to capture military supplies but the colonists thrwarted their plans -
-GB: Cpt. William DeLaPlace ; -Colonists: Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen ; -The colonists captured the fort to get 100 canons for the war because they needed war materials.
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-GB: Sir William Howe ; -Colonists: Dr. Joseph Warren, Israel Putnam, and William Prescott ; -important colonial victory and it put into perspective that the war would not be won quickly and decisively.
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-GB: Johann Rall, Cpt. William DeLaPlace, Charles Mawhood ; -Colonists: George Washington ; -these two victorious battles of the NJ Campaign against the Hessian mercenaries in Trenton and Royal Army in Princeton helped increase the morality of the Continental Army.
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-GB: General John Burgoyne ; -Colonists: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Lincoln, Arnold Gates ; -convinced the French to join the colonists in their fight against the British, making it a global war, and also was a turning point in the war.
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-GB: Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot, Sir Henry Clinton ; -Colonists: Benjamin Lincoln ; -GB focused their attention to the southern colonies, leading to this battle, which was a major loss of equipment and manpower for the colonists
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-GB: Patrick Ferguson ; -Colonists: James Johnston, John Sevier, and William Campbell ; -turning point for the colonists in the south and stopped British advance in the South, also caused Cornwallis to retreat into South Carolina
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-GB: Lord Charles Cornwallis ; -Colonists: George Washington ; -the last battle of the American Revolution because Cornwallis was defeated by the colonists and French combined, which caused him to surrender and the British to begin making peace negotiations
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