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the green mountain boys
Their methods were threat, intimidation, and actual violence against the New Yorkers, and they managed to keep the region free from New York control, establishing (1777) instead a separate government that ultimately achieved (1791) statehood for Vermont. Allen was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader who, before the war, fought against the Province of New York's attempts to take control of the New Hampshire Grants. -
battle of bunker hill
Place: On the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbour. Major General Howe was the main guy in charge of the British. The Americans were commanded by General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam. The British wore red coats. And there was 2,400 British soldiers and there was 1,500 Americans soldiers. I now the British won the battle. Where does digestion begin? -
the war at sea
: congress established the continental navy in 1775. Its few ships, however, had little effect on the outcome of the war. To protect their ports, the colonists were forced to rely on the armed private ships called privateers -
Battle of the long island
Place: New York, United States of America. Combatants: British and the American Continental Army, Major General Lord Howe and General George Washington. Size of the armies engaged: 20,000 British and Hessian Troops and around 10,000 Americans. -
The Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga started because the British troops came down from Canada and tried to take over New England. The Americans wanted to protect New England. They started to fight and the battle started. The British were taking over the war in the beginning, but the Americans soon fought back. The Battle of Saratoga started in Bemis Heights, New York. Bemis Heights overlooks the Hudson River. The Battle of Saratoga is said to be the biggest turning po -
the yorktown
Virginia, United States of America
Combatants: Americans and French against the British
Both sides were armed with muskets and guns. The back country riflemen carried long, small calibre rifles, weapons of considerably greater accuracy than the ordinary musket and which their owners used with proficiency. -
the swamp fox
And his name was Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina military commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.
