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  • British Capture of Charles Town
    Mar 29, 1280

    British Capture of Charles Town

    was a major engagement and major British victory,
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party

    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
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on nearby Breed's Hill.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting
  • British capture New York

    British capture New York

    They began the effort by recapturing New York. First, they drove Washington off Long Island
  • saratoga

    saratoga

    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
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle
  • Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington
  • British capture of Savannah

    British capture of Savannah

    the First Battle of Savannah because of the siege of 1779