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The Revolutionary War: A Chronology of America's Fight for Independence
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The Revolutionary War was a bloody eight-year battle. Follow the war from the first gunshot in Lexington to the signing of the Treaty of Paris, and see how America's fight for independence unfolded. Meets Common Core standards for analyzing chronology text structures.
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Danielle Smith-Llera
Danielle Smith-Llera grew up in coastal Virginia, hearing unforgettable tales about her Mexican and Irish ancestors. She first moved overseas to teach in international schools in Hungary and Brazil. Life in the U.S. Foreign Service has taken her around the world to live in India, Jamaica, Romania, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Washington, DC. She loves sharing stories—fiction, nonfiction, and a mixture of both—in classrooms, museum exhibits, and, of course, books.
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The Revolutionary War - Danielle Smith-Llera
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WAR ON THE HORIZON
Patriot Paul Revere snapped the reins, urging his horse through the night from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts. He stopped to pound on doors, waking sleeping American colonists to alarming news. More than 650 British soldiers were marching toward Lexington with loaded muskets.
But Great Britain had not always been the colonists’ enemy. For more than 100 years, colonists enjoyed being part of the vast British empire. The British government protected the 13 colonies with its navy, the most powerful in the world. Most colonists were proud subjects of King George III. But while the king gave them the freedom to elect their own governments, colonists had no say in British Parliament.
But now colonists leaped from their beds to beat drums and clang church bells. About 70 young men snatched up weapons and dashed to Lexington’s wide, green lawn in the town center. These were not soldiers, but Minutemen—ordinary people ready to fight at a moment’s notice. Dressed in ordinary clothes, these men arranged themselves in rows. They waited. Out of the early morning fog emerged British soldiers in bright red uniforms. It was April 19, 1775. Great Britain and its American colonies were about to go to war.
LEADING TO LEXINGTON
Twenty years before the events in Lexington, British soldiers and colonists fought side by side on American soil. Their enemy was France and its American Indian allies. These groups fought the French and Indian War (1754–1763) for control of North America. In 1763 Great Britain and its American colonies rejoiced at defeating France.
But in London King George III and his ministers could not enjoy the victory for long. They worried about debt. The British government had borrowed a great
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