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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. -
The first battle of the Revolutionary War in Lexington Massachusetts and concord. -
Early in the Revolutionary War the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
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. -
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. -
General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton -
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 -
naturally defensible plateau where they could train and recoup from the year's battles. -
Lee botched an attack on the British rearguard at Monmouth Court House -
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory -
Franco American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
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.