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This is the start of the American Revolutionary War. Minutemen and redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord "The shot heard 'round the world."
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Thomas Paine's book Common Sense is published.
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Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence; it's sent to the printe
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by the British and the Americans to end the Revolutionary War.
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