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Fort Ticonderoga
A large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York a fames fort -
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Revolutionary war
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Proclamation of 1763
Brief description The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire It help start the war -
Boston Massacare
British army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others It help start the war -
Boston Tea Party
American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into It help start the war -
Dorchester Heights
Thousands of militiamen from the Northern colonies converged on Boston, pushing the British back within what were then relatively narrow city limits a fames battle -
Lexington and Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War a fames battle -
Bunker Hill
Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War a fames battle -
Olive Branch Petition
a final attempt to avoid a full-blown war it was trying stop the war -
Publishing of Common Sense
It presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of whether or not to seek independence was the central issue of the day -
Battle of Trenton
during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton fames battle -
Battle of Trenton
George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton Fames battle -
Saratoga
British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war the turning point of the war -
Valley Forge
the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.[1] Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers Fames camp -
Battle of Yorktown
a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis Fames Battle -
Treaty of Paris
ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other ending the war
