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American Revolution
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington started in april 1775, as tensions were rising between the 13 American colonies and the British authorities. British soldiers marched from Boston to Concord to seize an army cache, but Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm notifing the Americans to intersept the British army. -
Battle of Bunker hill
The British defeated the Americans in the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperinced American forces were able to inflict significant casualties against the British. -
New York
The British forces were forced to leave Boston because of the American's seizing one of their cannons and using it against them. The British in retalation made New York their new base. -
Battle of Trenton and Princeton
General George Washington’s army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. A week later he returned to Trenton to lure British forces south, then executed a daring night march to capture Princeton on January 3. -
Battle of Saratoga
British General John Burgoyne achieved a small victory over the American forced led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. though weakened Burgoyne still attacked the American army, which then he was defeated and ten days later surrendered. The American's victory convinced the French to join the war as their ally. -
Philadelphia
Philadelphia was the headquarters, if not the official capitol, of the colonies during the American Revolutionary War. This historical city hosted the First Continental Congress, which was held in Carpenter's Hall, before the war, and the Second Continental Congress, which signed the Declaration of Independence. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. -
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was a French general and political leader who enthusiastically supported the American Revolution. The Continental Congress appointed him as major general in 1777, before France had officially entered into an alliance with the United States. Lafayette was wounded at Brandywine in September 1777, and endured the miserable winter at Valley Forge with Washington and his troops. -
Siege of Yorktown
The siege was a decisive victory by the combined forces of American troops led by George Washington and French army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over a British army led by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The siege was the last major land battle in the American Revolutinary war. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. This treaty, along with the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause: France, Spain and the Dutch Republic, are known collectively as the Peace of Paris. -
End of battle of Lexington and Concord
After many battles between the British and the Colonist, the Colonists come out victorious and the Colonists finally win their independence.
