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Intolerable Acts
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Navy was Formed
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Marines Come to Life
The Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Marine Corps. -
Paul Revive Ride
He rode to Concord to advise local compatriots to secure their military stores in advance of British troop movements. -
“The Shot Heard ’Round the World”
- It's unclear who shot first
- Took place in Lexington, MA
- 273 British dead
- Only 95 Americans dead
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George Washington takes Charge
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Increase in Forces
General Howe crossed the narrows to the Long Island shore with 15,000 troops, increasing the number to 20,000. -
France Helps with the War
- They had secretly furnished financial and material aid since 1776.
- Now they prepared fleets and armies, but they have not declared war.
- They had secretly furnished financial and material aid since 1776.
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Surviving Valley Forge
It was a hungry winter, which was made worse by the quartermaster and commissary mismanagement, a graft of contractors, and the unwillingness of farmers to sell products for paper money. -
Setbacks in the North
- The British raided New Bedford, Massachusetts, and New Haven and New London, Connecticut.
- Loyalists and Indians attacked settlements in New York and Pennsylvania.
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Frances Declares War
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Spain Declares War
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Netherlands Help America
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Vigorous Blow to America
- Clinton cut off the city from relief and, after a brief siege, compelled Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to surrender.
- There was a loss of 5,000 troops which was virtually the entire Continental Army in the South
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Preliminary Articles of Peace
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Treaty of Paris
- This ended the U.S. War of Independence.
- Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States (with western boundaries to the Mississippi River) and ceded Florida to Spain.
