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Between 3,000 and 4,000 minutemen fired on the British soldiers.
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The Colonists fought the British troops.
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Colonists lost 450 British suffered over 1,000 casualties.
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British sailed into New york harbor with 32,000 soldiers.
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American troops finally surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga,where he surrendered.
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Washington defeated a garrison of Hessians.
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More than 2,000 soldiers died there.
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He led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war.
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The second continental congress met to fund the military.
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Cornwallis finally surrendered.The Americans had shocked the world and defeated the British.
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It confirmed U.S independence and set boundaries of the new nation.
