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Boston Massacre
A fight broke out between colonists and British soldiers. The soldiers fired into the crowd withought orders. 5 civilians died and 6 were injured. The fight was broken up, but this was leading up to the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
When the Tea Act was passed, the colonists were so mad that they snuck onto 3 British ships while dressed like Native Americans. They dumped 340 tea chests in the Boston Harbor. -
Ride of Paul Revere
After hereing that the British were coming by water he rode to Lexington and Concord shouting "The Regulars are coming!" He rode with William Daws and Samuel Prescot. Revere was captured by British Guards but later escaped. -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
The British were goingto destroy the stored supplies in concord but thanks to Paul Revere the colonists knew about the attack and hid the supplies and got ready to attack the British. At Lexington the colonists were out numbered and retreated. When they got to concord the Colonists chased the British back to Boston. The colonists lost at Lexington, but won at Concord -
Battle at Bunker Hill
This battle was actually on Breed's Hill. The British keept retreating and coming back up the hill towards the colonists. The British won, but the colonists proved that they could face the British. -
Invasion of Canada
The colonists tried to take Canada. They wanted to make it a colony. They went out in a blizard. The colonists lost. -
Thomas Paine writes Common Sense
It wasa a 47 page pamphlet arguing that America should be a free country. -
Declaration of Independence is adopted
It said that the 13 colonies were independent states and not part of the British Empire. A committee drafted it and aproved it. We still celebrate the aproval on July 4th. -
Battle at New York
The British won this battle. It wasn't very good for the colonists because of the British's strong navy and the harbor so close. Goerge Washington retreited withought loosing a single man. -
Battle of Trenton
The British were going to cut off New England from the other colonies. The colonists built a dam, delayed, and attacked the British and forced them to surrender. The colonists won -
Battle at Saratoga
The colonists won. This was the turning point of the Revolutionary War, because France and Spain saw we could fight against the British so they became friends with us. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Goerge Washington was the general and in charge of the 10,000 men that went to Valley Forge to train. There were very bad conditions with little supplies. Some men didn't have clothes or bed sheets. 2,000 men died and 2,000 retrieted. They were there till June 19, 1778.
