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Proclamation of 1763
October 7th 1763
King George grate Britain's acquisition French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which the settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Massacre
March 5th 1770
street fight between a Patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed -
Boston Tea Party
Deceber 16th 1773
they raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor organized as a protest against taxes on tea -
Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Fort Ticonderoga
battle in American revolutionary troops captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775. -
Bunker Hill
The first important battle of the American War of Independence 1775, which was fought at Breed's Hill the British defeated the colonial forces. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a fortified attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. -
Publishing of Common Sense
in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights is the central area of South Boston. It is the highest area in the neighborhood and commands a view of both Boston Harbor and downtown. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle Of Trenton
A battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey. -
Battle of princeton
A battle of Princeton was a battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey. -
Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. -
Valley Forge
Continental Army camped during one winter in the American Revolution. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi and was christened on 29 September 1984 -
Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
