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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest -
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independence, document approved by the Continental Congress -
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. -
he Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle that took place in Trenton, New Jersey. -
Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Monmouth was fought near Monmouth Court House on June 28, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton. -
British Lieutenant 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. -
The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory -
The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies),