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2 giorni fa · The Patriots assembled a militia 15,000 strong and laid siege to Boston, occupied by 6500 British soldiers. The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia on June 14, 1775. The congress was divided on the best course of action.
10 giu 2024 · The Patriots captured Montreal and laid siege to the city of Quebec but suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Quebec (31 December 1775), where their commander, General Richard Montgomery, was killed.
24 giu 2024 · The American Revolution—also called the U.S. War of Independence—was the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
24 giu 2024 · American colonies - Revolution, Declaration, Independence: Fifteen months after the beginning of hostilities, the Second Continental Congress proclaimed American independence. Before 1775 the patriots generally desired to remain within the British Empire.
24 giu 2024 · George Washington (middle) surrounded by members of the Continental Congress, lithograph by Currier & Ives, c. 1876. (more) The First Continental Congress gave the patriot cause greater breadth, depth, and force. Its 56 members, representing all of the colonies except Georgia, were lawyers, country gentlemen, and merchants ...
1 giorno fa · On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in the colonial era capital of Philadelphia.
4 giu 2024 · Samuel Adams (1722-1803) was a prominent Patriot leader in the American Revolution (1765-1789), and a Founding Father of the United States.
