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4 days ago · The Americans maintained a siege of the city but withdrew with the arrival of British reinforcements in the spring. Pursued by the British and decimated by smallpox, the Americans fell back to Ticonderoga.
3 days ago · This map depicts significant events around Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 18–19, 1775, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams fled Lexington to safety, and Revere was joined by fellow riders William Dawes and Samuel Prescott.
- The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britai...
- On the ground, fighting in the American Revolution began with the skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials on April 19, 1775, f...
- The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make t...
- Until early in 1778, the American Revolution was a civil war within the British Empire, but it became an international war as France (in 1778) and...
- In the early stages of the rebellion by the American colonists, most of them still saw themselves as English subjects who were being denied their r...
2 days ago · The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- 4-7 June 1942
- American victory
3 days ago · by Robert Farley L. Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy's failure to build battlecruisers before World War II, such as the Lexington-class, limited its early war capabilities. Had the Navy built ...
4 days ago · The opening shots of the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Lexington and Concord —where the Massachusetts militia known as the minutemen faced their first battle—initiated a new order in Massachusetts and its sister provinces.
1 day ago · The American Revolutionary War broke out on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston. Upon hearing the news, Washington was "sobered and dismayed", and he hastily departed Mount Vernon on May 4, 1775, to join the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Commander in chief (1775–1783)
2 days ago · The 1925 Lexington Commemorative Half Dollar celebrates the Sesquicentennial of the Battle(s) of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which occurred April 19, 1775. This “shot heard around the world” as the battles of both Lexington and Concord represented the first salvos in the American Revolutionary War.
