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Bloody riot British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. -
a political protest 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. -
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces -
the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
New Yorkers heard the cannon blasts of the Battle of Long Island. Five days later, an expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars, 10 ships of line, 20 frigates, and 170 transports defeated Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invaded Manhattan Island. -
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle -
marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
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functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.
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was fought near Monmouth Court House. during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton -
holding the City, against a British invasion force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell. The British capture of the city led to an extended occupation and was the opening move in the British southern strategy to regain control of the rebellious Southern provinces by appealing to the relatively strong Loyalist sentiment there. -
a major engagement and major British victory in American revolution
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at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
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