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    The siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia...
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    the Boston Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (1773), Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (1775), the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776)...
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    John Parker (captain) (category People of Massachusetts in the French and Indian War)
    regulars returning to Boston in an ambush known as "Parker's Revenge". Parker and his men participated in the subsequent Siege of Boston. He was unable to...
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    of militia. Subsequently, accumulated militia forces surrounded the city of Boston, beginning the siege of Boston. The main action during the siege,...
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    chief of the army of the United Colonies and of all the forces raised or to be raised by them". He was instructed to take charge of the Siege of Boston on...
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    then blockaded the narrow land accesses to Charlestown and Boston, starting the siege of Boston. Ralph Waldo Emerson describes the first shot fired by the...
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    Continental Army (category 18th-century history of the United States Army)
    out the help of France and for the remainder of the war, clothing was coming from over-sea procurement. At the time of the siege of Boston, the Continental...
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    won the Siege of Boston, forcing the British to evacuate the city on March 17, 1776. However, the combination of American and British blockades of the town...
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    Benedict Arnold (category American people of English descent)
    assist in the siege of Boston that followed the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He proposed an action to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety to seize...
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    successful Siege of Boston, which trapped garrisoned British troops from moving by land, forcing the British to ultimately abandon Boston. Cambridge Common...
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