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Know as the " Shot Heard 'Round the World". Started the Revolutionary War.
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To plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts; Congress was called upon to take charge of the war effort.
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The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
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Attempted to capture the British-occupied city of Quebec and with it win support for the American cause in Canada. The attack failed, and the effort cost Montgomery his life.
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Written by Thomas Paine and was written to convince the colonists to fight against the British for their independence.
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Document stating America's Independence against Great Britain.
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Was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War.
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Functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington.
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Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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Was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Following the American retreats at the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of the Clouds, George Washington left a force under Brigadier General Anthony Wayne behind to monitor and harass the British as they prepared to move on the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia.