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LEXINGTON
The darkened countryside came with gunshots and signals from town to town, the british people were coming. then the kings troops went to lexington told the minutemen to throw down there weapons but someone fired and the british fired there guns causing some injured and killed. -
CONCORD
the british then went to concord and found a empty arsenal. after everything with the minute men they marched back to boston but the march became a slaughter between more of the minutemen. -
BUNKERHILL
General Tomas Gage decided to have a militia men on breeds hill, near bunker hill. Gage sent 2400 british soldiers up the hill, the colonist held there fire and began to back down before finally retreating. -
NEW YORK
In desperate for victory washington risked everything. On a fierce storm he led 2400 men in rowboats across the delaware river. -
TRENTON
they marched to trenton and had defeated a garrison pf hessians in a surprise attack. the british soon had regrouped and captured the american capital at philadelphia -
PHILADELPHIA
Captured the American capital. Burgyone Didn't realize that his fellow British officers were preoccupied with holding Philadelphia and wasn't going to meet him. -
SARATOGA
Burgoyne traveled through wilderness, militiamen, and soldiers form the army all over new york and new england. American troops surrounded Burgoyne at saratoga, he then surrendered. -
Valley Forge
Washington and his Continental Army that was low on food and supplies, had fought to stay alive at Wintercamp -
-Marquis De Lafayette
He lobbied French for reinforcement. Also lead a command in Virginia in the last year's of the war. -
Yorktown
About late September 1700 French and American troops surrounded The British on the Yorktown Peninsula and begin bombarding them day and night -
Treaty of Paris
The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris which confirmed US independence and set the boundaries of a new nation