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By breannakuhs

  • British reach menotomy

    British reach menotomy
    1630 British reach Menotomy (now Arlington), scene of day‟s bloodiest fighting. Percy now pressed from all directions. British give no quarter to anyone fighting from houses; some militia prisoners killed by British captors.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    March 1765 Stamp Act seeks to recoup small part of French and Indian War debt. Resented in America as “taxation without representation” and because disputes will be settled in Admiralty courts.

  • Taxing Goods

    Taxing Goods
    June 1767 Townshend Acts taxes some goods, including tea. Colonists protest, boycott, harass Royal collectors.

  • Generl Thomas

    Generl Thomas
    Sept 1768 British regiments are stationed in Boston as part of General Thomas Gage‟s attempt to “overawe” inhabitants. Increase in violent confrontations between soldiers and Bostonians.

  • Tea

    Tea
    16 Dec 1773 Boston Tea Party: raiders careful to avoid violence and limit destruction to the tea.

  • battle of lexington and concord spark.

    battle of lexington and concord spark.
    Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.

  • Anniversary of Boston Massacre

    Anniversary of Boston Massacre
    6 Mar 1875 Bostonians mark anniversary of Boston Massacre. Tensions high. British 47th Regiment tars and feathers a Boston peddler who offered to buy uniforms and arms from soldiers.

  • soldiers didn't get sleep

    soldiers didn't get sleep
    1900 British reach Charlestown Peninsula; some soldiers hadn‟t slept for two days, had marched 40 miles, under fire all day long. It takes three hours to ferry wounded to Boston.