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The French were sore over their loss to the English in the Seven Years War, so what better way to get back at them than to help the Americans? As early as 1776, the French were sending arms to the Americans under a fake supply company. Most of the weapons
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The British were occupying Boston, ready to begin constructing fortresses on Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill to better control the harbor. The colonial forces learned of this plot and situated themselves on these two hills, ready to fight the redcoats. On June 17, 1775, the 6000 British troops
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Spies in the Revolutionary war did not have the fancy Aston Martins and other gadgets popularized in James Bond films. They had to use more basic technologies, like invisible ink. There are quite a few ways to use invisible ink, and the clever Revolutionary War spies had a very interesting
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During the night of April 19, 1775, the British soldiers under General Gage would go and capture gunpowder supplies in Concord and capture Colonial leaders in Lexington. However, spies leaked the general's plans and riders such as Paul Revere and William Dawes went to tell the colonists that
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The Boston Tea Party was a raid on tea-bearing ships that happened in 1773. This event was perpetrated by the Sons of Liberty against the East India Company because of the rising tea taxes implemented by the British. This was another event that contributed to the initiation of the Revolutionary
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On the evening of March the 5th, 1770, British soldiers fired on a mob, killing five colonists and wounding six. But why was this act perpetrated, and what happened to the murderers? Private Hugh White was the only soldier guarding the King's money in the custom house in
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The Sons of Liberty was an organization in the 13 colonies dedicated to fighting the Stamp Act through violence or print. This organization started in the summer of 1765, when a group of shopkeepers and artisans in Boston prepared themselves for an uprising against the stamp act. The reason for
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The inaptly named French and Indian war was fought in North America by the French and their Indian allies against the English and their Indian allies. This war started when the French and the English fought for land in the Ohio River valley. However, this was a theater of the
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King Philip's war was one of the most important events in the Colonial period. It was the most destructive war in American history relative to the size of the population. This war started when the American Indians became dependent on English goods and started selling their lands to
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The Salem Witch trials was an event that happened in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Many people were accused of being witches and executed with no evidence to show for it. This witch scare started when Tituba, an African (or American Indian, no one really knows) started telling her master&
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Cultivating tobacco and sugar was backbreaking work, and the English landowners wouldn't do it themselves, so they got other people to work for them. Indentured Servants Indentured servants were people from England who would try their luck in America. For passage over the Atlantic Ocean, seeds, and sometimes
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Three of the first thirteen colonies were the Southern Colonies. These were North and South Carolina and Georgia. North and South Carolina were originally one colony, and colonists from America and England flocked to its warm climate with hopes of growing sugar cane and exporting products like wine and olive