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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 is the treaty that started the revolutionary war. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is the first fighting in the revolutionary war. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
Publishing of Common Sense
Common Sense was writen by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776. It is the writing that motavated the thirteen colonies to fight to gain there independence. -
Dorchester Heights
Dorchester Heights is a place in south boston where fighting went on after the battles of Lexington and Concord were one action we remember as Fortification of Dorchester Heights took place on march 2nd. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a document that declared that the thirteen colonies were not a part of the British Empire any longer and that they were on there own. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen. -
Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. -
Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. -
Princeton
The Battle of Princeton was a battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces close to Princeton, New Jersey. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga was a battle between 2 and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of New York. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the commander of the Continental Army George Washington, the future first president of the United States, leads histroops into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. -
Yorktown
Yorktown 1781 George Washington begins the Battle of Yorktown against British General Charles Cornwallis and his British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 is the treaty that ended the revolutionary war.
