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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. -
Boston Massacre
Happened on King Street in Boston between American colonists and a lone British soldier. -
Lexington/Concord
British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column -
Bunker (Breed's) Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine published his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Though little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries. -
Declaration of Independence
A document signed on the 4th of July that made America free and independent and John Hancock signed it. -
Battle at Trenton/Princeton
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Battle of Saratoga
Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution.
9/19/1777 and 10/7/1777 -
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War in the south/Charleston
Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as 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 War. The war was three weeks of nonstop fighting.
On October 17 1781 the battle was offically over.
