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The colony of Massachusetts was seen by King George III and his ministers as the hotbed of disloyalty.
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A series of punitive measures that were intended to cow the restive population into obedience.
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Revere issued a warning to local allies. The following day, several hundred men assembled and stormed the fort, capturing the six-man garrison, seizing a significant quantity of powder, and striking the British colours; a subsequent party removed the remaining cannons and small arms.
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The Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Navy
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Gage received a letter from Dartmouth informing him that Massachusetts had been declared to be in a state of open revolt and ordering him to “arrest and imprison the principal Actors and Abettors in the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress.”
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Those killed and wounded at the Battles of Lexington and Concord numbered 273 British and 95 Americans.
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The battle was a moral victory for the Americans.
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On July 3 Washington assumed command of the American forces at Cambridge.
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The British force sailed on June 10, 1776, from Halifax to New York and on July 5 encamped on Staten Island.
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Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga.
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British maintained control of the North American seaboard for most of 1779 and 1780
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Cornwallis surrendered his army of more than 7,000 men on October 19.
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Ended the U.S. War of Independence. Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States (with western boundaries to the Mississippi River) and ceded Florida to Spain.
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