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It was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought in Middlesex County, Provincce of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Mentomy, and Cambridge.
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A small force of Green Mountain boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and overcame a small British fore at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.
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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.British defeated the Americans.
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Battle of Princeton was a battle in which George Washington and his army decided to attack the British but had to fall back before Cornwallis arrived with reinforcements.
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The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal in the American Revolution in which George Washington and the continental Army against Hessians soldiers. The Americans won.
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The Battles of Saratoga 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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The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy and their withdrawal from Philadelphia, shifted their focus to the American Southern Colonies. It was a decisive success for the British.
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The Battle of King's Mountain was a military engagement between Patriot and Loyalist militias in South Carolina during the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in a decisive victory for the Patriots.
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The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War
