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Hessians Soldiers
Between 1706 and 1707, 10,000 Hessians served as a corps in Eugene of Savoy's army in Italy before moving to the Spanish Netherlands in 1708 -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold, the American general during the Revolutionary War who betrayed his country and became synonymous with the word "traitor," was born on this day in 1741. -
Martha Custis Washington
Martha widowed at 25, she had had four children with her late husband; two survived to young adulthood. She brought great wealth to her second marriage with Washington, which enabled him to buy much land and many slaves to add to his personal estate. She also brought nearly 100 "dower slaves" for her use during her lifetime; -
Treaty of Paris 1763
The Treaty of Paris was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement to formally end the Seven Years' of War -
Proclamation of 1763
The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies.In general, the Proclamation of 1763 was the initial and most visible sign that England was starting to take an interest in the United States again. -
Quartering Act 1765/1774
The Quartering act was to allow Britain to keep a standing army in the colonies without having to pay too much. -
Stamp Act 1765
The purpose of the Stamp Act was to place a tax on postage stamps used to send mail throughout the colonies -
Sons Of Liberty
The origins and founding of the Sons of Liberty is unclear, but history records the earliest known references to the organization to 1765 in the thriving colonial port cities of Boston and New York. -
Townshend Acts 1776
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as Indians -
Thomas Paine
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin -
1st contenintal congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774. -
Intolerable Acts
Four of the Intolerable acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 -
john adams
In 1775, the Battle of Lexington and Concord made people angry, so some important colonists had a meeting in Philadelphia to discuss it. The meeting was called the Second Continental Congress. John Adams made speeches for independence from England. -
Paul Revere
On April 16th, 1775, Paul Revere began to gather tips that a raid was planned for the city of Concord in the coming days. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was made up of two battles that began on April 18th, 1775. -
George Washington
George Washington commanded the Continental Army in American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was the first President of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. -
Declaration of Independence 1776
The main purpose of America's Declaration of Independence was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. -
Loyalists
By July 4, 1776 the Patriots had gained control of virtually all territory in the 13 colonies, and expelled all royal officials. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was a big part in the revolutaionary war, being one of the people to have Signed the Declaration of Independence, in 1776 -
Patriots
Patiots were the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence -
Thomas Jefferson
On the strength of his impressive record in the Virginia Assembly, Jefferson was catapulted from legislator to chief executive when his colleagues elected him to a one-year term as governor on June 1, 1779. -
Lord Cornwallis
In 1776, Cornwallis arrived in America two years after the Revolution started. Cornwallis came to America with the rank of major general, but by 1780, -
Battle Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams married John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States. She was the mother of John Quincy Adams. He became the sixth president of the United States. Only one other woman in American history, Barbara Bush, is both the wife and mother of an American President.
