The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world',marked the start of the American War of Independence(1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.
The Battle of Lexington
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
The Boston tea party
The Boston Massacre wasa deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
The Boston Massacre
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Washington crossed the Delaware Riverso that his army could attack an isolated garrison of Hessian troopslocated at Trenton, New Jersey
On the way to New Jersey
Washington Crosses the Delaware
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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The stamp act
Does the paper has a stamp on it
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War