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| 1775 |
| | | General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Paul Revere is one of the US riders taking an urgent warning to Concord, but he is captured on the journey | |
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| 1775 |
| | | The first shot of the American Revolution is fired in a skirmish between redcoats and militiamen at Lexington, on the road to Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1775 |
| | | At Bunker Hill, overlooking Boston from the north, the American militiamen prove their worth against British professional soldiers | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Britain declares the colonies to be in a state of rebellion, and sets up a naval blockade of the American coastline | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony | |
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| 1776 |
| | | George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston, and moves south to protect New York | |
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| 1776 |
| | | The revolutionary convention of Virginia votes for independence from Britain, and instructs its delegates in Philadelphia to propose this motion | |
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