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The Americans won this battle.For the colonists; 49 were killed, 38 were wounded, five were missing, and for British; 73 were killed, 174 were wounded and 26 were missing. There were 700 British men and 77 colonists that fought on the green that day.
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Benedict Arnold teamed up with the Green Mountain Boys and surprised the British while they were sleeping. It was a big win for the colonists.
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The colonists learned that the British were going to surrounding the hills around Boston when they heard that, they went the night before and built an wall and surprised the British.
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General William Howe led the British and Hessian troops against General George Washington and the American Continental Army. An American man named Nathan Hale was executed. Also a quarter of New York City's buildings were burnt.
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Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware river on Christmas Day 1776.The victories got the colonist with control of much of New Jersey.
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British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Burgoyne surrendered ten days later after the battle.
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362–500 killed, wounded or captured from the Americans and 65–304 killed, 170–770 wounded, 60 captured from the British. The second phase of the battle the temperature remained almost consistently above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and heat stroke was said to have claimed more lives than musket fire throughout the battle.
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General Daniel Morgan took 300 Continental riflemen and some 700 militiamen with the intention of attacking the British backcountry fort, Ninety-Six.
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George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops while British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown.
