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The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere
Paul Revere was out at night to relay a message illegally and got caught -
Battle of lexington and Concord
-1st battle of American Revolutionary War
-shot heard around the world -ralph waldo emerson
-BRITISH Victory
-Battle of Concord
-Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to boston -
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
-Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allan capture the fort
-Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
-AMERICAN Victory -
Second Continental Congress meet
-they decide to start printing their own money
-they set up a post office
-they created continental Army led by George Washington
-Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
-king hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-fought on Breed's Hill
-"don't Fire Until you see the whites of their eyes" -William Prescott
-BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) british learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
Washington arrives on outskirts of boston with Continental troops
-Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
-Need weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
-pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
-"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. the blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
British Surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
-washington puts cannons on dorchester hights overlooking boston
british retreat - AMERICAN VICTORY -
Second Continental Congress meet again
-Debate on declaring independence
-thomas jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for independence
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The Declaration of independence is signed!
