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lexington
paul revere, williams dawes, and samuel prescott sent a message to everybody that more than 700 troops were coming, when the redcoats arrived, 70 were ready to fire their guns but ended up injured and some of them killed. the battle only lasted 15 minutes. -
Concord
the british marched to concord the same day that they fought with the minutemen and massacred them. between 3000 and 4000 minutemen had assembled that day, they killed over a dozen british soldiers. -
bunker hill
general thomas cage decided to to strike at militiamen on breeds hill that was close to a bunker. the general a sent over 2400 british soldiers to the hill and fought. the colonist lost 450 men and the british got over 1000 people injured. -
new york
the british left new england to stop the rebellion by isolating it, they decided to move to new york. they sent over 32000 soldiers with force. -
trenton
the general led over 2400 men in small rowboats through a ice choked delaware river and surprise attacked a garrison of hessians -
philadelphia
the british soon regrouped however however and in september of 1777 they capture the american capital at philadelphia. it was after valley forged -
saratoga
militian mens troops finally surrender burgoyne at saratoga where general john burgoyne surrendered on october 17 1777. these victory made france believe american could win the war -
valley forge
the troops only ate rice and vinegar and there feet were frost bitten things were not going good to the continental army. washington try to stop it by hitting them -
marquis de lafayette
arrive to offer their help. led a command in virginia in the last year of the war with the help of european military leader -
yorktown
the british surrender cornwallis finally surrendered american beat them -
treaty of paris
the delegates signed the treaty of paris which confirmed the us independence and became a new nation. because of this the united states became larger from the canada border to florida.