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North American phase of a war between France and Britain to control colonial territory (1754 – 63). The war's more complex European phase was the Seven Years' War.
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a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Old World and New World). It was one of the most significant events concerning ecology, agriculture, and culture in all of human history. Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the Americas in 1492 launched the era of large-scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds that resulted in this ecological revolution, henc
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In Boston, tensions mounted rapidly in 1770 until a confrontation left five Boston workers dead when panicky troops fired into a crowd.
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Incident on Dec. 16, 1773, in which American patriots dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of tea from three British ships into Boston Harbor.
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In the early-morning hours of October 10, 1835, rebellious Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large garrison of Mexican soldiers (at San Antonio de Bexar) and the major Texas port of Copan.
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was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texan Army engaged and defeated General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes.
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was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texan Army engaged and defeated General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes.
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(February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, USA). All but two of the Texan defenders were killed.
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middle County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Monotony (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston
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General George Washington's resounding defeat of Lord Cornwallis's British army;
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people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants,[2] whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.[3] Despite the fact that the decision is no longer "jurisprudentially important," it nevertheless had, and continues to have, lasting cultural and historical ramification/implications.
