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Proclamation of 1763
One of the biggest problems confronting the British Empire in 1763 was controlling land speculators in both Europe and the British colonies whose activities often led to frontier conflicts. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. -
Publishing of Common Sense
The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Bunker Hill
1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula. -
Olive Branch Petition
It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. -
Dorchester Heights
800 American soldiers stood guard along the river of Dorchester shores, 1,200 American soldiers occupied Dorchester Heights. -
Trenton
Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. -
Valley Forge
With winter almost setting in, and with the prospects for campaigning greatly diminishing, General George Washington sought quarters for his men.
