Patriots vs British

Patriots vs British

Period: Jan 1, 1770 to Dec 31, 1780

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

Mar 5, 1770

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

May 1, 1773

Boston Tea Party

Dec 17, 1773

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

May 1, 1774

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

Jun 17, 1775

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.