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Boston Massacre
British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War in Lexington Massachusetts and concord. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Early in the Revolutionary War the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independence
Important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule. -
British capture New York
New Yorkers heard the cannon blasts of the Battle of Long Island. Five days later, an expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars, 10 ships of line, 20 frigates, and 170 transports defeated Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invaded Manhattan Island. -
Battle of Trenton
General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton -
saratoga
It was two crucial battles fought eighteen days apart and was a victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War -
Valley Forge
naturally defensible plateau where they could train and recoup from the year's battles. -
Battle of Monmouth
Lee botched an attack on the British rearguard at Monmouth Court House -
British capture of Charles town
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory -
Battle of Yorktown
Franco American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
British capture Savannah
British Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia.