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Revolutionary War,

The popular name of the struggle of the American colonies against Great Britain for independence in 1775-83; also known in American history as the first war for independence. For a detailed statement of causes the reader is referred to Declaration of Independence. The following is a chronological record of the war:

Battle of Lexington, Mass., at dawn of	April 19, 1775
Col. Samuel H. Parsons and Benedict Arnold plan, at Hartford, Conn. the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y.	April 27. 1775
Arnold leads his company from New Haven to Boston, arriving	April 29, 1775
Fort Ticonderoga captured by Ethan Allen	May 10, 1775
Crown Point, N. Y., captured by Americans	May 12, 1775
Americans under Benedict Arnold capture St. John, Canada	May 1, 1775
British Generals Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne arrive at Boston from England with troops	May 25, 1775
Congress votes to raise 20,000 men	June 14, 1775
George Washington is unanimously elected by Congress commander-in-chief of the American forces.	June 15, 1775
Battle of Bunker Hill, June 16-17: and burning of Charlestown	June 17, 1775
Resolved by Congress, “That a sum not exceeding two million of Spanish milled dollars be emitted by Congress in bills of credit for the defence of America.”	June 22, 1775
Washington takes command of the army at Cambridge	July 3, 1775
Declaration by Congress, the causes and necessity for taking up arms	July 6, 1775
First provincial vessel commissioned for naval warfare in the Revolution, sent out by Georgia	July 10, 1775
Importation of gunpowder, saltpetre, sulphur, and fire-arms permitted by act of Congress	July 15, 1775
Georgia joins the United Colonies	July 20, 1775
Franklin's plan of confederation and perpetual union, “The United colonies of North America,” considered by Congress	July 21, 1775
Congress resolves to establish an army hospital	July 27, 1775
British vessel, the Betsy, surprised by a Carolina privateer off St. Augustine bar, and 111 barrels of powder captured	Aug., 1775
King issues a proclamation for suppressing rebellion and sedition in the colonies	Aug. 23, 1775
American troops under Gen. Richard Montgomery sent into Canada to cut off British supplies	Sept., 1775
Col. Benedict Arnold, with a force of about 1,100 men, marches against Quebec via Kennebec River	Sept., 1775
English ship seized off Tybee Island, Ga., by the Liberty people, with 250 barrels of powder	Sept. 17, 1775

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British capture Col. Ethan Allen and thirty-eight men near Montreal	Sept. 25, 1775
Bristol, R. I., bombarded	Oct. 7, 1775
Gen. William Howe supersedes General Gage as commander of the British army in America, who embarks for England	Oct. 10, 1775
Falmouth, Me., burned by British	Oct. 18, 1775
St. John, Canada, surrenders to Americans under Montgomery	Nov. 2, 1775
Congress orders a battalion to protect Georgia	Nov. 4, 1775
British fleet repulsed at Hampton, Va., Oct. 25, 1775, and Lord Dunmore declares open war	Nov. 7, 1775
Night attack of the British vessels Tamar and Cherokee on the schooner Defence, in Hog Island Channel, S. C.	Nov. 12, 1775
Americans under Montgomery capture Montreal	Nov. 13, 1775
Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Johnson, John Dickinson, and John Jay, appointed by Congress a committee for secret correspondence with friends of America in Great Britain, Ireland, and other foreign nations	Nov. 29, 1775
Battle of Great Bridge, Va.	Dec. 9, 1775
Congress appoints Silas Deane, John Langdon, and Christopher Gadsden, a committee to fit out two vessels of war, Nov. 25, orders thirteen vessels of war built and appoints Esek Hopkins commander	Dec. 13, 1775
British vessels driven from Charleston Harbor, S. C., by artillery company under Colonel Moultrie, stationed on Haddrell's Point	Dec., 1775
American forces united under Montgomery and Arnold repulsed at Quebec; General Montgomery killed	Dec. 31, 1775
Washington unfurls the first Union flag of thirteen stripes at Cambridge, Mass.	Jan. 1, 1776
Norfolk, Va., partly burned by Governor Dunmore	Jan. 1, 1776
Battle of Moore's Creek, N. C.: McDonald's loyalists routed by militia; seventy killed and wounded.	Feb. 27, 1776
Silas Deane appointed political agent to the French Court	March 2, 1776

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