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