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Marquis De Lafayette
helped to trained the continental army. -
Lexington
British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons -
Concord
kicked off the revolutionary war -
Bunker Hill
Boston was being besieged by thousands of American militia. British were trying to keep control of the city and control its valuable seaport. -
New York
It happened right after the United States declared it's independence. and was a decisive defeat for George Washington and his Continental Army. It was a decisive defeat for George Washington and his Continental Army. -
Trenton
Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned -
Philadelphia
Hosted the first continental congress. It held in carpenter's hall before war -
Saratoga
The battle had a turning point in war because it convince potential partners such as France -
Valley forge
Washington and his continental army desperately low food and supplies -
Yorktown
A french naval force defeated a British fleet and then blocked entrance to the chesapeake -
Treaty of Paris
Confirmed the U.S independence and set boundaries of the new nation