Important Dates In The American War For Indepnedence

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1770

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>Boston "Massacre"
>Parliament votes to repeal all of the Townsend Acts but the tea tax

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1773

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>Boston Tea Party

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1774

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>Parliament passes the first of the "Intolerable Acts"
>Parliament passes the Quebec Act
>First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia

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1775

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>The first shots of the Amercian War for Independence fired at Lexington and Concord
>Second Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia
>Patriots capture Ft. Ticonderoga
>Battle of Bunker Hill
>Washington takes command of Continental Army
>Continental Congress issues Olive Branch Petition
>George III issues Proclamation of Rebellion
>Parliament passes Prohibitory Act

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1776

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>Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
>Contental Congress adopts Delaration of Independence
>British capture New York
>Washington suprises Hessians at Trenton

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1777

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>Patriot victory at Princeton
>British victory at Brandywine
>British capture Philadelphia
>British victory at Germantown
>Patriot victory at Saratoga
>Washington camps at Valley Forge

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1778

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>France joins the Patriot cause
>Battle of Monmouth ends in a stalemate
>Patriots capture frontier outpost of Kaskaskia
>British capture Savannah

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1779

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>Patriots capture frontier outpost of Vincennes
>Spain joins the Patriot cause

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1780

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>British capture Charleston
>French troops begin to arrive
>British victory at Camden
>Patriot victory at King's Mountain

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1781

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>Patriot victory at Cowpens
>British surrender at Yorktown

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1783

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>Great Britain and the United States sign Treaty of Paris