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American revolution
the american army were outmatched, they had a volunteer militia and they were against the British, the strongest army in the current time -
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Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence - -
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The American Revolution in 1775 is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The war arose from growing tensions of Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militia in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. -
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For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. Attempts by the British government to raise revenue by taxing the colonies met with heated protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. -
Common sense
The colony's still hoped for peace with England, but because of Thomas paine's common sense thing it told them that they should be independent and fight by themselves -
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the colonist wrote the declaration of independence in 1776 -
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Battles of Long Island and White Plains
British forces occupy New York after American defeats. -
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colonist met in the second continental congress, they decided that the army should be leaded by George Washington -
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Battle of Trenton, New Jersey, providing a boast to American morale. -
The midnight ride
three colonial leaders were coming to lexington and soldiers there were waiting for them in lexington to fight against the British they killed eight colonist in the time -
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France provides covert aid to the Americans -
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France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British to surrender at Yorktown, in 1781, the Americans had won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783. -
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2-3 January: Battle of Princeton, New Jersey General Washington broke camp at Trenton to avoid a British advance, attacking the British rearguard and train near Princeton and then withdrawing to Morristown.