Patriots vs British

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    Patriots vs British

  • British soldiers killed five and wounded six men in an incident known as the Boston Massacre.

    British soldiers killed five and wounded six men in an incident known as the Boston Massacre.

  • British Parliament passed an act that allowed the East India Company tohave a monopoly over the tea trade in the colonies.

    British Parliament passed an act that allowed the East India Company tohave a monopoly over the tea trade in the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe forced out William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.