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What caused the start if the american revolution was over taxation.
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The Revolutionary War starts and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonists that the "British are coming".
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The actual fighting starts with the first "shot heard around the world". The Americans win as the British retreat.
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The Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.
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On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England.
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George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River on Christmas night and surprise the enemy.
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The continental congress adopts the stars and stripes flag sewn by Betsy Ross.
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
