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Lexington
The kings troops reached Lexington Massachusetts, when they heard the town they saw 70 minutemen drawn up in lines in the village.Eight minuteman were killed and ten more were wounded, but only one british was injured. The Battle of Lexington, the first battle of the Revolutionary War, lasted only 15 minutes. -
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Concord
Colonists in Boston were watching the darkened countryside rang with church bells and gunshots which were prearranged signals, sent from town to town, that the british were coming. -
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Bunker Hill
British General Thomas Gage sent 2,400 british soldiers up the hill. Colonists held their fire until the last minute and then they began to mow down the advancing redcoats before retreating. The colonists had lost 450 men. The British suffered over 1,000 casualties -
New York
British forces under General William Howe defeat patriot forces under General George Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn, the americans suffered 1,000 casualties to the british. The british only loss 400 men. -
Trenton
Washington's Forces had defeated a regular army in the field the victory sharply increased. -
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Saratoga
General John Burgoyne planned to lead an army down routes of lakes from Canada to Albany, where he would meet the British troops as they came to New York City. Burgoyne didn't have his fellow british officers because they were preoccupied in Philadelphia and they couldn't meet him. American troops finally surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga where he surrendered on October 17, 1777. -
Philadelphia
The British had captured Philadelphia on September 26, 1777, following General George Washington's defeat at the battle of Brandywine and The battle of Clouds. -
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Valley Forge
While this hopeful turn of events took place in Paris Washington, and Burgoyne and his continental army, low on food and supplies fought to stay alive at winter camp in Valley Forge. More than 2,000 soldiers died, yet the survivors didn't desert. -
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Yorktown
The armies of Lafayette and Washington moved south toward Yorktown. Meanwhile a French Naval Force defeated a British fleet and then blocked the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, thereby obstructing British sea routes to the bay. By late September, about 17,000 French and American troops surrounded the British on the Yorktown peninsula and began bombarding them day and night, less than a month later on, October 19, 1781, Cornwallis finally surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
The colonial empire of Great Britain was destroyed in North America. The American revolutionary was ended.