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Boston colonists are shot by British troops
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Representatives from the colonies get together to unite the oppose British taxes
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The The revolutionary war start and Paul Revere makes his famous ride to warn the colonist that the “British are coming”
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The actual fighting starts with the first “shot heard around the world”. The Americans win as the British retreat.
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Major battle where William Prescott told the American troops "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes".
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The Continental Congress agrees to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware river on Christmas night and surprise the enemy.
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Continental Congress adopted the “Stars and Stripes” flag sewn by Betsy Ross
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British general John Burgoyne surrenders his army to the Americas after suffering defeat at the battle of Saratoga.
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France recognized the United States as an independent country with the Treaty of Alliance.
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The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown was the unofficial end to the war.
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Treaty that officially ended the war.
