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1,000's of Redcoats in Boston
General Gage brings thousands of British. soldiers to Bostons with more on the way -
Midnight night Paul revere
Paul revers rides to warn the sons of liberty in Lexington and concord that the "British were coming... The British are coming." -
Battles of Lexington And Concord
.Battle of Lexington
-"1st battle of american Revolutionary War"
-"shot heard round the world" Ralph waldo
Emerson -BRITISH Victory
.Battle Of concord
-American stoped British enforcers -
second Continental Congress meet
*Print $$$$
*set up post office
*Created Continental army led by George Washington
*Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
- King hires 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response -
battel of bunker hill
*Fought on Breed's hill
*"Don't fire until you see the whites of their
eyes" -William Prescott
*BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
*Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
*Need weapons
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"Common Sense" published by Thomas pain
*pamphlet inspires more colonists to become
patriots
*"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads separation. The blood of the blood of the slain,the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine,Common Sense -
British surrender Boston
*Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
*Washington puts cannons on dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
*British retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet again
*Debate on Declaring independence
*Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress Votes for independence
- All 13 colonies vote Yes on declaring independence
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The Declaration of Indepedence is sighned!
Fireworks