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was a major engagement and major British victory, -
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston -
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on nearby Breed's Hill. -
is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting -
They began the effort by recapturing New York. First, they drove Washington off Long Island -
It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War -
was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle -
Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington -
the First Battle of Savannah because of the siege of 1779