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Paul Revere's job was to get on his horse and warn the two Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British Troops were coming to arrest them.
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These battles were the first military commitments of the American Revolutionary War
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The Americans fought the British on Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, though the British won, they lost at a large cost.
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The Declaration of Independence was and official decision to be an independent country and break free from the British rule.
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This was when George Washington crossed the Delaware to advance against German mercenaries
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The British and Hessian troops finally surrendered to the American troops.
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This is where the American troops set up camp for the winter of 1777-1778. They army became a fighting unit here.
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The American and French troops trapped the British troops in Yorktown, which forced them to surrender, therefore, the end of the American Revolutionary War.
