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American Revolution Begins
"On the eve of 18 April 1775, General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts, dispatched a force of 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, with secret orders to capture and destroy arms and supplies stored by the Massachusetts militia in the town of Concord.
However, Patriot militiamen under the leadership of the Sons of Liberty anticipated this raid, and the confrontation between militia and British regulars en route to Concord."
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Declaring Independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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The Battle Of Princeton
"A little more than a week after his stunning surprise victory at Trenton in New Jersey, Commander-in-Chief of the American Continental Army George Washington pressed his advantage and scored another decisive victory over the British at nearby Princeton."
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Battle of Saratoga
"The Battle of Saratoga was an American Revolutionary War battle fought between the Continental Army, led by Horatio Gates, and the British Army, commanded by John Burgoyne, from September 19 to October 17, 1777, on the Hudson River, in Saratoga, New York. It consisted of two military engagements: the Battle Freeman’s Farm and the Battle of Bemis Heights, and the final British surrender at Saratoga on October 17."
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Battles at Sea
"On September 23, 1779, an American navy ship named the Bonhomme Richard took on the British warship Serapis off the coast of England. The American captain, John Paul Jones, saw two of his major guns explode on the first discharge. Undismayed, he pulled alongside the Serapis and the two ships pounded each other for more than two hours. At one point, when asked if he would surrender, Jones replied, 'I have not yet begun to fight!'"
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American Loss in Charleston
"In the spring of 1780, about 8,500 British and Loyalist troops and 14 ships surrounded the city of Charleston, trapping an American army under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln. On May 12, Lincoln surrendered his entire army of 5,500 men, along with huge amounts of weapons."
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British Surrender at Yorktown
"America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia.
General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived. That was lucky for General George Washington and the Continental army."
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The Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. Based on a1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory. The 1783 Treaty was one of a series of treaties signed at Paris in 1783 that also established peace between Great Britain and the allied nations of France, Spain, and the Netherlands."
- US Department of State