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== Revolutionary War battles == | == Revolutionary War battles == | ||
names are usually preceded with "Battle of..." | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bunker Hill|June 17, 1775, following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the British attempted to resupply their garrison at Boston, but was blocked by colonials on land and in the harbor; the colonial resistance was called, "the siege of Boston" (April 1775-March 1776); George Washington was appointed by the Continental Congress to command the American forces, who were importantly supplied with canons taken from Fort Ticonderoga in Nov., 1775, giving them a line of fire upon the British. Just before the battle, the Americans stealthily occupied Bunker Hill, which the British attacked head-on, suffering far more casualties than the Americans; while the Americans were forced to abandon Bunker Hill, the British realized that colonial military resistance could be effective; the British finally abandoned Boston in March, 1776}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lexington and Concord|April 19, 1775, Massachusetts; colonial militia drive back British troops who marched towards Concord to seize colonial military supplies (which had already been moved out); the fighting stasrted at Lexington and concluded at the "North Bridge" in Concord, where the 100 British troopers were outfought by 400 colonial militia; | |||
the British movement from Boston was announced by Paul Revere ("The Midnight Ride") and another man who rode from Boston to warn about the British movement (the signal for which was two lanterns in the Old North Church to indicate the British initial movement was "by sea" ("one if by land, two if by sea")}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Long Island|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Saratoga|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Yorktown|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Yorktown|}}</ul></li> | ||
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