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He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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George Washington is appointed county surveyor of the frontier county of Culpeper. He was seventeen years old. As surveyor for Culpeper County, Virginia, he became the first official county surveyor in the colonies.
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Washington and his forces encounter and slaughter a small detachment of French forces. The Battle of Jumonville Glen is considered as the first encounter of the French and Indian War.
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Washington was serving under General Edward Braddock. The troops were ambushed by the French and Indians. Washington was appointed commander in chief of all Virginia forces.
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Washington leads several hundred colonial troops as part of a victorious British attack on Fort Duquesne. The victory effectively marks the cessation of hostilities around Virginia for the remainder of the French & Indian War.
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This treaty ended the French and Indian War which was signed by France, Great Britain, and Spain.
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The British draw an imaginary line to maintain the settlement toward west of the Appalachian mountains. King George III prohibited all westard settlers without guarantees of security from local Native American nations.
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The first attempt to finance the defence of the colonies by the British Government. British Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. It was a tax put on the American colonies which said they had to pay a tax on all sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents. It was called the Stamp Act because the colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on it that showed they had paid the tax.
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The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They also led to event of the Boston tea Party.
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Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent, "taxation without representation."
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Parliament agreed to repeal the Stamp Act, but declared that the government had the right to tax colonies.
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Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.
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The Boston Tea Party was referred as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston". In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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The British Parliament was very angry and responded to the Boston Tea Party by closing Boston Harbor and took away many of Massachusetts' self-governing powers.
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The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies which became the governing body of the United States, during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations.
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The American Revolutionary war was the 7 years war between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which had declared themselves the independent United States of America.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought within the towns of Lexington, Concord. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
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It was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. The siege began after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, when the militia from surrounding Massachusetts communities blocked land access to Boston.
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Washington was appointed commander in chief of the armed forces of the United Colonies.
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It was one of the first major battles of the War of Independence. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Boston, which was also involved in the battle, and was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops,
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The Olive Branch Petition was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.
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The Second continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence–written largely by Jefferson–in Philadelphia on July 4, a date now celebrated as the birth of American independence.
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The Battle of Long Island was a defeat for the Continental Army under General George Washington which gave the British control of the important city of New York.
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The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) 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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The victory on the war Battles of Saratoga encourged France to enter into the war of 1778.
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This battle took place on June 27th and 28th in New Jersey. Washington sets up headquarters at West Point on July 8th. On July 10th, France declares war on Britain.
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A peace plan is approved by Congress stipulating independence and British evacuation of America on August 14th.
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Maryland's ratification of the Articles of Confederation makes them the governing document of the new United States of America.
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Washington led a joint Continental-French force to victory over British general Charles Cornwallis's forces at Yorktown, Virginia. It is the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783 was signed between the United States and Great Britain which ended the revolutionary war and recognized the United states as an independent nation.
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George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. He took the oath of office on April 30th in New York City. He was addressed as "Mr. President."
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The first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States guarantee basic liberties to Americans.
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George Washington died at Mount Vernon on December 14th. He was 67 years old. In his last will and testament he arranged for all of his slaves to be freed.
