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Date: April, 1775

Location: Massachusetts

Recap in your own words: The British soldiers were supposed to find the weapons that the colonists were hiding in Concord and Lexington but Paul Revere told the colonists that the British were coming. The colonists lost at Lexington but won at Concord.

Who won and why: In the end the colonists won because they overwhelmed the British soldiers by attacking them before they could organize themselves.

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Date: June 17, 1775

Location:  Boston

Recap in your own words: The colonial militia found out that the British planed to take Breed's hill and Bunker hill. So in the night they took the hills and fortified them. When the British attacked the militia had the high ground and took out a lot of the British soldiers. The colonists lost because they ran out of ammunition. But they managed to kill more than a thousand British soldiers. If they had not run out of ammunition then they would have won.

Who won and why: The British won the battle but the colonists had a Pyrrhic victory since they killed more than a thousand British soldiers.

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Date: July 4,1776

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Recap in your own words: It was a document that declared that the 13 colonies were no longer under the control of Britain.

Who won and why: The colonists because they have declared themselves an independent nation.

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Date: October, 1777

Location: New York

Recap in your own words: The British wanted to take the Hudson river and New York. But the British got trapped for two weeks in this one part because there were a lot of colonists. They tried to fight another part of the area but then they surrendered because they had no reinforcements and there were too many colonists.

Who won and why: The colonists because they overwhelmed the British. This was a turning point because the French arrived to help the colonists after Saratoga.

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Date: Winter, 1777

Location: Pennsylvania

Recap in your own words: Valley Forge was where the continental army was located. It was overcrowded, there was little food, and there were no warm clothes. But the soldiers there were trained to fight like a professional army by foreign officers that were sent to help.

Who won and why: It was not a battle.

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Date: October 1781

Location: Yorktown, Virginia

Recap in your own words: The British soldiers in Yorktown were trapped by thousands of American and French troops. They could not receive troops because the bay near by was blockaded by the French Navy. The Americans bombarded the town for weeks until the British surrendered. This was the last major battle of the Revolution because the British had lost a third of their forces and could not fight on.

Who won and why: The Americans because they trapped the British and set up a successful blockade that prevented reinforcements from getting through to the British.

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Date: Early 1783

Location: Paris, France

Recap in your own words: After the battle of Yorktown, the British saw that the American Revolution was too costly so they signed the treaty of Paris which ment that they had to recognize the 13 colonies as an independent country. It also said that they had to give up the land west of the Mississippi river and return confiscated property to loyalists.

Who won and why: For the Americans this was a victory because this signaled that they were now independent from Britain.