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Place where the first battle of the revolutionary war began, 70 minutemen versus a troop of British soldiers. The battle began when someone shot a musket after the british troops had ordered them to put them down. 18 minutemen were killed and 10 were injured, only one british soldier was hurt, the battle lasted only 15 minutes
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The place where British troops marched to after the battle at lexington, when they arrived and approached their arsenal and found that it was empty. When they turned around to march back to Boston, they were approached my 3000-4000 minutemen. The minutemen began to attack the British and killed off a vast majority of them. The surviving troops fled back to Boston.
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The second continental congress in philadelphia debated their move. The loyalties that divided the colonists sparked endless debates at the congress with the great britain.
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Deadliest battle in the war where minutemen ambushed redcoats and killed most of them showing they had a chance to win the war
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The british quickly attempted to take hold of new york city, they sealed into New York harbor in the summer of 1776 with the force of 3200 soldiers.
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Washington led 2,400 men to Trenton,New Jersey and defeated the british soldiers with a surprise attack.
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the British surrender the battle at saratoga turned out to be the most important events of this war.
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the colonists continued to battle Cornwallis. The British general decided to take the battle to Virginia and the British had surrendered in Yorktown.
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Delegates signed the treaty of paris, which gives a barrier of a new nation
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The continental army was low on food and supplies at winter camp
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