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Important Battles And Events.

Published on Mar 29, 2016

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THE BATTLE OF LEXINTON/CONCORD

  • "Shot heard round the world "
  • The british won but they retreated .
  • April 1775
Photo by EliPongo
2.

THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL (BREEDS HILL)

  • The British won
  • The patriots gained confidence
  • Because the had just stood up to
  • The MOST powerful army in the world.
  • June 1775
Photo by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL
3.

THE OLIVE BRANCH PETITION

  • The colonists requested peace with Britain
  • The king refused and called the colonists
  • Rebels.
  • July 1775
Photo by mtgf93
4.

COMMON SENSE

  • 1-1776
  • Made for the colonists to
  • Change their minds
  • About the british.
Photo by Marion Doss
5.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  • July 4 1776
  • The writers comitted treason.
Photo by arellis49
6.

BRITISH TAKE OVER LONG ISLAND

  • 1776
  • The british are winning the war
Photo by Peter aka anemoneprojectors
7.

WASHINGTON CROSSES THE DELAWARE

  • Winter of 1777
  • Won the battles at trenton and
  • Princeton
  • On cristmas
Photo by Steve and Sara
8.

BATTLE OF SARATOGA

  • October of 1777
  • The turning point of the war!
  • The british surrender about 6,000 soldiers
Photo by national museum of american history
9.

VALLEY FORGE PA.

  • 1777-1778
  • 1/4 of our troops died
  • Do to sickness or frozen
  • The french join the war!
Photo by Montgomery County Planning Commission
10.

YORKTOWN VIRGINIA

  • General cornwallis surrendered
  • Patriots won the war
  • Oct. 1781
Photo by Ken Lund
11.

TREATY OF PARIS

  • Sep. 1783
  • the us is free and independant
  • New boundaries
  • West to the massissippi
  • South to florida and north to canada
Photo by cliff1066™

Michael Pitzo