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Patriots vs British
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British soldiers killed five and wounded six men in an incident known as the Boston Massacre.
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British Parliament passed an act that allowed the East India Company tohave a monopoly over the tea trade in the colonies.
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Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe forced out William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.