# data[].attributes.body
April 1775
In Lexington on their way to Concord
In these battles their was a famous shot around the world. People didn't really know if it was war. The colonists were the ones who won these battles.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

# data[].attributes.body
June 17,  1775
First Major Battle
Massachusetts
This battle was basically the colonists waiting for the British on the top of the hill and shooting at them with headshots easily but it gave the colonists a pyrrhic victory but the British surrender them and they won.

# data[].attributes.headline
Declaration of Independence adopted by Second Continental Congress

# data[].attributes.subject
Declaration of Independence adopted by Second Continental Congress

# data[].attributes.body
July 4, 1776
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The reason they wrote the declaration of independence is because it would talk about the reasons why the colonists wanted to break up with Britain.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Declaration of Independence adopted by Second Continental Congress

# data[].attributes.body
October 1777
New York
The British wanted to take control of the Hudson River during the battle to have a strategy to win the battle. The French saw that the colonists had a chance to win these battles so the French joined the colonists side. The colonists end up winning.

# data[].attributes.body
Winter 1777
Pennsylvania
It's a training camp and the soldiers didn't really have the appropriate clothes for the weather. In this training camp, 10,000 men that were 30% Irish, 1/7 were African American, and other percentages for Englishman, Frenchmen, Polish and natives. The men in this camp has very poor conditions like being overcrowded or their food shortage and illnesses. Through this camp the Continental Army improved on discipline and organization.

# data[].attributes.body
October 1781
Virginia
The British got out numbered with the colonists having 19,900 troops while they have 9,000. The British would get in redoubts but the colonists would get closer and closer. Later on the colonists surrounded the British and won the victory.

# data[].attributes.body
Early 1783
The British had at least 1,000 men killed or wounded throughout the whole war. Later on, Parliament took action and stopped the war. Which made the Treaty of Paris get signed.