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He warned colonial militias in Lexington and Concord about the approaching British troops, allowing them to assemble and prepare for the Battles of Lexington and Concord -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America's Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War -
It happened when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and captured the fort's small British garrison. -
The Second Continental Congress was a governing assembly of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that convened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, to manage the American Revolution -
George Washington was posthumously promoted to General of the Armies of the United States on March 13, 1978, retroactively effective July 4, 1976, to recognize him as the highest-ranking officer in U.S. military history -
British victory that demonstrated the American militia's ability to stand against the British Army -
It was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Quebec -
Thomas Paine wrote The American Crisis, a series of 16 pamphlets published between 1776 and 1783, to inspire the Continental Army during the American Revolution. -
created by a committee appointed by the Continental Congress, with Thomas Jefferson as the primary author, to explain the reasons for the American colonies' separation from Great Britain -
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military -
After crossing the Delaware River in a treacherous storm, General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later -
a period of extreme hardship for the Continental Army, marked by disease, starvation, and exposure to harsh weather, leading to the deaths of thousands of soldiers -
The Battles of Saratoga were two battles between the American Continental Army and the British Army fought near Saratoga, New York
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a British military campaign during the american revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia that ended in June 18th 1778 -
final major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, in which American and French forces trapped British General Cornwallis's army in Yorktown Virginia ending in october 19 1781 -
1783 treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War,