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The violent clash on March 5, 1770, began with an argument that led to a riot outside of the Customs House. Captain Preston of the 29th Regiment arrived with eight fellow Redcoats to extract White from the square. The crowd pressed on the soldiers and shots were fired by the Redcoats.
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It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea
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passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. Its purpose was to allow the colonies to consult over the common dispute with England.
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To race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops - 700 of them - were marching to Concord to arrest them.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence
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The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army
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Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country.
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The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War
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ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.