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The famous shot heard around the world marked the start of the American War of Independence.
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The Congress met inside the Independence Hall, preparing for war.
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The American patriots were defeated at this battle, but they proved they could hold their own against the British Army.
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1,675 Americans assaulted the city, only to meet with defeat.
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Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
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The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle.
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The Battles of Saratoga 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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This was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the area surrounding present-day Malvern, Pennsylvania.
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The more than 12,000 soldiers and hundreds of civilians that marched into Valley Forge with the Continental Army.