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About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. This was made up of two battles
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Major General Gage was the Commander-in-Chief in Boston. He has 11 battalions of foot in Boston, 1 in New York and 6 others spread through North America. There were 7,000 men in all.
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The drafting of the U.S. Delclaration of Independence. Took place in the wake of the Seven Years War between Great Britian and France which left Britain deep in dept.
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The Second Continental Congress was the only official government of the newly proclaimed United States.
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After finalizing the text on July 4th, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially puplised as a printed broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public.
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The Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the Bell in 1751 to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges, Pennsylavania's original Constitution. It speaks of the rights and freedoms valued by people all over the world.
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The night the Declaration of Independence was read to George Washingtons troops the Americans destroyed the bronze statue of Great Britain's King George III which stood at the foot of Broadway on the Bowling Green.
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Nathan Hale was a lieutenant in the Continental Army. In his early twenties he worked as a schoolteacher before the revolution. In late September 1776 he volunteered to cross the British lines to travel to Long Island in order to gather intelligence. His mission was discovered and he was captured by the British. Was Hanged because he was a young spy.
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Lieutenant General Wilhelm Von Kynphausen and a force of 3,000 Hessian mercenaries and 5,000 Redcoats lay siege to Fort Washington at the northern end and highest point of Manhattan Island. Nearly 3,000 Patriots were taken prisoner, and valuable ammunition and supplies were lost to the Hessians.
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The Battle of Oriskany, as a part of the British was plan of 1777, Lieutenant Colonel Barry St. Leger led his army eastward across the Mohawk Valley towards Albany. Both sides suffered heavy losses at this battle.
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Between the raiding party and the colonialist militiamen General John Burgoyne was the commander of the British Army and he needed supplies. He sent a regimant of 800 soldiers, including British, German Hessians, to capture Bennington and bring back the supplies for the British Army.
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This is part of the Battles of Saratoga. Major General Burgoyne with 6,000 men left Montreal Quebec in Canada in June 1777. When they went through Northern New York, they stopped at Fort Ticonderoga and took that fort over from the Americans.
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Major General Burgoyne's men had no choice but to retreat to Saratoga. They had suffered 600 losses compared to the Patriot loss of only 150 men. On October 17, 1777, Majoy General Burgoyne with less than 5,000 men surrendered to a Patriot Army of 20,000 men.
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The Battles of Saratoga were a major turning point in the was. The British goal of taking control of the North died and they were forced to give up hope of ever regaining full authority over the northern Colonies. The French decided then to join the Patriots in the was against the British and they were part of the victory at Yorktown, where General Cornwallis' troops also surrendered.
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15,000 British Troops under General Sir Henry Clinton evacuate Philadelphia, the former U.S. capital. On June 24th, the Continental Congress returned to the city from its temporary quarters at York, Pennsylavania.
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Nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending th American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York Citys, the last British General George Washington entered the city in triump to the cheers of New Yorks, U.S. city had remained in British hands since its capture in September 1776.
