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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. When British marched into Massachusetts. -
The Continental Army's hard winter encampment during the American Revolutionary War. -
Surrender the key American stronghold of West Point to the British in 1780 for money and a position in their army. -
The Battle of Cowpens was fought between Patriot and British forces near Chesnee, South Carolina. -
Was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812 -
The failed raid of Fort McHenry forced the British to abandon their land assault on the crucial port city of Baltimore. -
A battle of fighting off Great Britain from New Orleans. -
The popular vote and 178 electoral votes, to Adams' 83 -
A battle between the Republic of Texas and Mexico -
Mexico ceded to the United States nearly all the territory now included in the states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado for $15 million. -
Is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. -
Became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
The battle was a Confederate victory and was followed by a disorganized post-battle retreat of the Union forces. -
A three-day battle in the American Civil War, which was fought between the Union and Confederate armies. -
Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of a house in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to discuss the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. -
Exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. Of the two-thirds of the crew who perished, only 200 bodies were recovered and 76 identified. -
Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. -
the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution making the song the official national anthem of the United States, which President Herbert Hoover signed into law.