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The ship named "The Deliberence" sails towards America. 120 years after Columbus had reached the same continent, but instead, to South America.
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Rollfe married Pocahontas, an indigenous princess, in Virginia
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100 Pilgrims had landed in North America. After 5 months of winter, barely half had survived. Earlier, Europeans had brought plague, and now 1/10 of the Pilgrims died.
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The Mayflower returns arrives to England. With different planta and animals, bringing some of the nature of America to Europe.
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Afterwards, tens of thousands of Europeans travel to North America in search of a better life. Germans and Irish push back the frontier. 13 Colonies are established. There is inmenses growth.
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A quarter million slaves from Africa are brought to North America.
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The unison of the native Americans and the Pilgrims started Thanksgiving.
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Boston was a powerful city, an area of commerce and exchange. A revolution started, where the public, the melting pot of people from different ethnicities, hated the British for treating them badly. Soon, there is a start of a war, with many deaths in Boston
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Hundreds of men blame the British for their problems on King Street. They all revoke against their red codes, this is how war started.
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In Concord and Lexington, people are trained and are preparing to defend themselves against the British.
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900 british redcloacks leave their Boston barracks, lexington and concord, and walk about 30 kilometers a day, to arrest the rebel leaders. Warning spreads across New England, warning of the coming of the Europeans.
Free African-American slaves were fighting with the rebels. A battle broke out among the two armies. British against the New Americans. The rebels were outnumbered by the redcoats. The American Revolutionary War started here. -
45 British War ships attack New York, with cannons and soldiers. Followed by 356 other ships coming from Britain.
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The rebel army is lead by George Washington. His inexperienced recruits were about to face one of the most impressive armies in the world.
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50 delegates fmor 13 colonies hold an emegernecy session. Some don't believe they stand a chance.
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John Adams, Benjamin Franklyn, Thomas Jefferson are the of the Founding Fathers.
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Kips Bay, New York. Men stand guard against Britain. Ships attack the coast. New York City is under fire, 200,000 British cannon balls smash the colonists in only half an hour. 4,000 birtish troops storm Manhattan, with 6 times more war experience than a Colonist recruit, causign Washington's army to collapse.
On September 28th, a fire starts, and in 2 days, destroys a quarter of the city. -
The two armies meet near Saratoga. General Simon Fraser was shot by an american colonist, the British loose 1,000 men, twice as many as the colonists.
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Washington's army has re-invented themselves thanks to a new general who brought order, discipline and hygiene, and wrote a new training manual.
9,000 battle-hardened British troops where waiting, protected by cannons. The British would be forced to surrender with so many soldiers from the Colonists. The rebels race 100 yards under fire and hand-grenades. A force of 400 storms the British troops, with the bayonettes they beat the Redcoats back. -
The British surrender two days later, and beggin negociations of peace, after 6 yers of struggle. The rebels achieved freedom,
the only country to gain independence from Britain in war, 5,000 men lost their lives.
April 30th: Washington becomes fist president!!!