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-Washington lost more battles then he won

-1775 Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capturedBritish garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point

-1775 colonists siezed Bunker Hill

-1,500 colonists

-July 1775 Continental Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition professing American loyalty to the crown

-Hessians were hired under the rule of George lll

-October 1775 British burned Falmouth

-Richard Montgomery pushed up Lake Champlain and captured Montreal

-January 1776 the British set fire to Norfolk. They were finally forced to evacuate Boston

-"God save the king" was replaced with "God save the congress"

-1776 Common Sense was published. 120,000 copies sold

-It called for a new political society

-June 7 1776 Richard Henry Lee said the colonies should be free.

-John Adams wrote that July 2 would be celebrated with fire works

-Declaration of Independance was signed july 4 1776

-Written by Jefferson

-Tory- someone whose head is in England and body is in America

-Loyalists were 16 percent

-Benjamin and his son were on opposite sides

-The educated were loyalists

-Loyalists were not treated well

-Washington crossed the delaware on christmas of 1776

-December 26 1776 washington attacted hessians

-Burgoyne surrendered to Horatio Gates Oct. 17 1777

-After Saratoga in 1777 the British parliment passed a measure that offered americans home rule within the empire

-Feb 6 1778 france offered a treaty of alliance

-Treaty of paris 1783