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The boston massacre
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Date
March 5, 1770
Deaths
5
Injured (non-fatal)
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The boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Winner:Colonial
Casualties
Americans:50 killed,59 wounded,5 missing
British:73 killed,173 wounded,26 missing
In the year leading up to the battle of lexington and concord,the british army conducted a series of raids on the communities surrounding boston,where the americans were storing shots and power -
The battle of bunker hill
American soldiers:2,400
British:3,000
Important figures: america: Israel putnam,william prescott,joseph warren,john stark
British:william howe, robert pigot,james abercrombie,henry clinton
Winner:british
Casualties:Americans:115 killed,505 wounded,30 captured
British:226 killed, 828 wounded -
Battle of trenton
american soldiers:2,400 men, 18 cannons
british:1,500,6 cannons
important figures :america:george washington,nathaniel green
british:johann rall
winner:americans
casualties:americans:2 dead,5 wounded
british:22 killed, 83 wounded,896 captured -
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Siege of Ticonderoga
America: 800 indians
british:3,000 men
Important figures:America:Arthur st. clair
british:john burgoyne, william phillips
Winner:British
Casualties:americans:7 killed ,11 wounded
british:5 killed
