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Instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts
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The introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose, to explain the colonists' right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
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Was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian (German mercenaries) forces in Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26.
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The six-month encampment of General George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778 was a major turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
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His surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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A combined American force of Colonial and French troops laid siege to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. Led by George Washington.