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Lead up to the Revolutionary War
Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. Also in December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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George Washington take command
"In June 1775, Congress ordered General George Washington to take command of the Continental Army besieging the British in Boston. Despite having little practical experience in managing large, conventional armies, Washington proved to be a capable and resilient leader of the American military forces during the war.
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The Revolutionary War
The American Revolution (1775-83) is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown.
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Horatio Gates
When the beginning of the Revolutionary War put a stop to his work with his estate in Virginia, Horatio decided to fight alongside the Americans and joined the army, where he was commissioned by Congress as a Brigadier General and the first Adjutant General of the U.S. Army on July 17, 1775.
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The 13 colonies
Traditionally, when we tell the story of “Colonial America,” we are talking about the English colonies along the Eastern seaboard. It is incomplete but the story of those 13 colonies is an important one. It was those colonies that came together to form the United States.
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Richard Montgomery
On September 16, Montgomery launched an attack against Fort St. Jean. Unable to storm the fort, he was forced to lay siege. Finally on November 2 the British garrison surrendered. Though a victory, the siege had badly delayed the campaign with winter approaching.
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Declaring the independence
By June 1776, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, a growing majority of the colonists had come to favor independence from Britain. On July 4, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence
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Saratoga battle
The British entered Philadelphia on September 25. Washington rebounded to strike Germantown in early October before withdrawing to winter quarters near Valley Forge. Howe’s move had left Burgoyne’s army exposed near Saratoga, New York, and the British suffered the consequences of this on September 19.
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Stalemate in the North and Battles in the South
Washington’s army attacked British forces near Monmouth. The battle effectively ended in a draw. A joint attack on Rhode Island failed, and for the most part the war settled into a stalemate phase in the North. British forces began an offensive in the region, though the Americans scored a victory over Loyalist forces.
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Revolutionary Wars draws to a close
American forces had managed to force Cornwallis and his men to withdraw to Virginia’s Yorktown peninsula. The British removal of their troops from Charleston and Savannah in late 1782 finally pointed to the end of the conflict. British and American negotiators in Paris signed preliminary peace terms in Paris.
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Ratification of the Treaty of Paris
Among the team’s notable achievements were British recognition of American independence; Great Britain’s ceding to the United States all territory between the Allegheny Mountains on the east and the Mississippi River on the west. For its part, the United States agreed to end the persecution of Loyalists.
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