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Events relating to america
George Washington raises on Prospect Hill a new American flag, the British red ensign on a ground of thirteen stripes – one for each colony
In Common Sense, an anonymous pamphlet, English immigrant Thomas Paine is the first to argue that the American colonies should be independent
George Washington drives the British garrison from Boston, and moves south to protect New York
The revolutionary convention of Virginia votes for independence from Britain, and instructs its delegates in Philadelphia to propose this motion
Virginia's motion for independence from Britain is passed at the Continental Congress of the colonies with no opposing vote
Thomas Jefferson's text for the Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress in Philadelphia
John Hancock is the first delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence, formally written out on a large sheet of parchment
George Washington, driven from New York by the British, retreats towards Philadelphia
Spanish America is now administered as four viceroyalties - New Spain, New Granada, New Peru and La Plata
Buenos Aires rather than Asunción is chosen to be capital of the new Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata
George Washington defeats the British at Trenton at a psychologically important moment in the course of the war
Congress adopts a new flag for independent America – the stars and stripes
George Washington, heavily defeated in a battle at Brandywine, is forced to relinquish Philadelphia to the British
The American general Horatio Gates captures the army of General Burgoyne near Saratoga
The US Congress agrees the final version of the Articles of Confederation, defining the terms on which states join the Union
Benjamin Franklin persuades the French to sign a Treaty of Alliance, committing France to the US cause
France, joining the American colonies in their fight against Britain, sends a large fleet across the Atlantic
The American naval hero John Paul Jones makes successful raids around the coasts of Britain
In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings
The British rapidly abandon Philadelphia on news of the expected arrival of a French fleet
The British adopt a new policy in the south, landing in Georgia and capturing much of South Carolina
Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy
U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, fights H.M.S. Serapis near England's Flamborough Head
An Indian uprising in Spanish Peru is led by a descendant of the Incas, Tupac Amaru II
The capture of British go-between John André yields proof that US general Benedict Arnold is in the pay of the British
