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1 day ago · The Battle of Lexington State Historic Site is helping kick off the Lexington Community Fair with two free events on Saturday, August 10. The events include:-The Big Chill: A Homemade Ice Cream Demonstration from 3 to 4:30 p.m.-The Owl Prowl: Learn more about the owls found in the area from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
3 days ago · After the fighting at Lexington and Concord that began the war, rebel forces began a siege of Boston that ended when the American Gen. Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, forcing Gen. William Howe, Gage’s replacement, to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
7 hours ago · 440 killed. 695 wounded. 6,222 captured [7] [5] The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in the ...
3 days ago · Failing to achieve victory, the Royal Navy withdrew later that morning and the fleet set sail for New Orleans — the site of the final battle of the War of 1812. The Star Spangled Banner flag that flew so famously over Fort McHenry is now in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
1 day ago · On August 24, the American army defeated the Northwestern Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795 opened two-thirds of the Ohio Country for American settlement.
6 days ago · As the British approached Lexington, their advance guard captured 3 militia scouts that were just outside of the town, waiting to spot the British approach. The fourth militia scout, Thaddeus Brown, escaped capture and rode back into town.
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2 days ago · The siege of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of General Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army.
