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the first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence. -
The winter of 1777-78 was not the coldest or the worst winter experienced during the war but regular freezing and thawing plus intermittent snowfall and rain coupled with shortages of provisions clothing and shoes made living conditions extremely difficult -
greed; mounting debt; resentment of other officers; a hatred of the Continental Congress; and a desire for the colonies to remain under British rule -
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17 1781 near the town of Cowpens, -
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place on the 19th of August 1812, one month after the war's first engagement between British and American forces. -
American forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the port city of Baltimore, Maryland. The combatants first met at the Battle of North Point -
forced the British forces to remain in place and shattered their illusions of a quick and easy conquest. It also granted Jackson the time to build earthworks and other defenses he desperately needed to hold off the much larger enemy force. -
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8th 1815 between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson roughly 5 miles southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana -
Jackson decisively won the election, carrying 55.5% of the popular vote and 178 electoral votes, to Adams' 83. The election marked the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System. -
The Battle of the Alamo was an event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution 13 day siege Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo -
Lincoln took office following the 1860 presidential election, in which he won a plurality of the popular vote in a four-candidate field -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
in the American Civil War the first of two engagements fought at a small stream named Bull Run near Manassas in northern Virginia -
battle in the American Civil War fought by Union and Confederate forces -
general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses s. Grant precipitated the capitulation of other Confederate forces and led to the end of the bloodiest conflict in American history. -
an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship USS Maine in the Havana Cuba harbor killing 266 of the 354 crew members -
The star spangled banner whose words were written by Francis Scott Key on Sept 14 1814,during the War of 1812 with Britain was adopted by Congress as the US national anthem in 1931