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Paul Revere made his famous Midnight Ride along with two other riders.
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The famous scientist George Washinton Carver was a lieutenant in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
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The famous American spy Nathan Hale was actually discovered and executed for his crimes against Britain.
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The city of Providence, Rhode Island was called "Traitor's Den" by the American patriots because of how the city's government officially denounced the Revolution throughout the war.
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The Intolerable Acts placed upon the American colonists were enacted as a result of the Boston Tea Party.
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Fourteen men were killed in the Boston Massacre.
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The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the war because it inspired the French to openly support the American patriots.
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In 1775, Benedict Arnold led the American forces that captured Fort Ticonderoga.
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Washington crossed the Delaware River in order to attack Trenton, New Jersey.
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Revolutionary War hero George Washington appears on the Purple Heart medal.
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American soldiers in the Continental Army could earn the title of Ace if they had five or more confirmed kills.
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The Boston Tea Party saw patriots destroy tea that was owned by the British East India Company.
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One of the famous slogans the American patriots said during the Revolution was "No taxation without federation."
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The American naval officer John Paul Jones actually attacked the British Isles during the Revolutionary War.
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Samuel Adams is famous for the revolutionary protests he led in Richmond.
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The British owned colonial Florida during the Revolutionary War, but control of the territory was handed over during the negotiations to end the war.
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George Washington only became the commander of the Continental Forces after four other officers rejected the position.
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During the Revolutionary War, there was a conflict called the Battle of Cowpens.
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Friedrich von Steuben, the officer who helped Washington organize and train the Continental Army, was actually Prussian.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought because British troops tried to seize an armory of stashed weapons kept at Lexington.
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Benjamin Franklin acted as an ambassador to France throughout much of the Revolutionary War.
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John Jay delayed the Treaty of Paris because he refused to negotiate with the British until they admitted that America was already independent of them.
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Americans called the British soldiers "redcoats" during the Revolution.
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George Washington and his men constructed Fort Necessity during a unique battle of the Revolutionary War.
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General John Sullivan is perhaps best-known for the battles he waged against Iroquois settlements after their warriors attacked patriot positions.
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The original Jeffersonian draft of the Declaration of Independence specifically denounced the slave trade in America.
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One of America's greatest allies in the War for Independence was Spain who provided a naval blockade that prevented Charles Cornwallis from fleeing Yorktown.
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American independence was established by the signing of the Constitution on July 4th, 1776.
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The American Revolutionary War saw the first battle between ironclad warships.
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It was the deputies of Generals Washington and Cornwallis who handled the ceremonial surrendering of the sword at the Siege of Yorktown.
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