What were the two towns near Boston where the first battles of the American Revolution were started?
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Concord was one, Lexington the other.
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They were both once a British Colony
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Many old city directories available online.  Many of them are in PDF format, so you can search by address rather than name. Just google the name of your town and the words "city directory".\n\nFor example, this site:  http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/people/directories.html\noffers the city directories for Boston for a number of years from 1845 to 1925.\n\nYou can also search the census through 1930 for your address.  \n\nMost public libraries have the census available through ancestry.com or heritagequest.com for free.  You may be able to access the services from home using your library card.
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multiple years, you mean the american revolution\n\n1775-1783
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Saratoga Campaign.\n\nThere were 2 Battles of Saratoga.\n\nThe Battle of Saratoga (First)/ Freeman's Farm\nSeptember 19, 1777 at Freeman's Farm, New York\n\nhttp://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/770919b.htm\n\nThe Battle of Saratoga (Second)/Bemis Height's\nOctober 7, 1777 at Saratoga, New York\n\nhttp://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/771007.htm\n\nLink to all The Battles of the Revolutionary War.\n\nhttp://www.myrevolutionarywar.com/battles/index.htm\n\nThe American Revolution.\n\nThis hyperlink is a fantastic resource for information on the American Revolution.\n\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/Weblinks/AHAP_Weblinks4.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts\nDate: April 19, 1775\n\nBunker Hill, Boston, Massachusetts\nAlso Known As: Battle of Breed's Hill\nDate: June 17, 1775\n\nQuebec, Canada\nDate: December 31, 1775\n\nMoore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina\nDate: February 27, 1776\n\nFort Sullivan, Charleston, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: 1st Battle of Charleston\nDate: June 28, 1776\n\nTrenton, New Jersey\nDate: December 26, 1776\n\nPrinceton, New Jersey\nDate: January 3, 1777\n\nSaratoga, New York\nIncludes: Fort Stanwix, Bennington, Freeman's Farm, Bemis Heights\nCampaign Dates: June 20-October 7, 1777\n\nMonck's Corner, South Carolina\nDate: April 14, 1780 Siege of Charleston, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: 2nd Battle of Charleston\nDate: April 2-May 12, 1780\n\nWaxhaws, South Carolina\nAlso Known As: Buford's Massacre\nDate: May 29, 1780\n\nCamden, South Carolina\nDate: August 16, 1780\n\nKing's Mountain, South Carolina\nDate: October 7, 1780\n\nCowpens, South Carolina\nDate: January 17, 1781\n\nGuilford Courthouse, North Carolina\nDate: March 15, 1781\n\nPensacola, West Florida\nDate: March 9-May 10, 1781\n\nYorktown, Virgina \nCampaign Date: May-October 17, 1781 \n\nEach for different reasons. Read up on why they were pivotal in their own right.
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THE PLAIN STEEL marker on Sleepy Hole Road in Suffolk pings in the winter wind. It says that James Bowser was the only Negro from Nansemond County to fight in the American Revolution. \n\nread more about it on the website...\n\nit is a college with significant ties to the black community, so there is no suprise in a building being named after him.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_revolution\n\nshould help  has alot of info on it :)
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Boston is a city, it never had a Governor. Did you want the Governors of Mass. or the Mayors of Boston in the 1800's???
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The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with almost 23,000 casualties.
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Engalnd, and the colonies. The colonies did most of the fighting until William Pitt, the English Secretarty of State started demanding shelter, equipment, supplies, and manpower from the colonists. These demands and forced service of men  lead to the colonies revolting against England and the Revolutionary War. Since France was already at war with England, they became our allies (being enemies of our enemies).
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Called for civil disobedience against the British\n\nFirst met in Philly in 1774
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Boston, MA\n\nHer mom is Swedish, though!
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Red Sox.  Born and raised in Beantown. In good times and in bad times. Go Red Sox!
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There were two Boston tea parties! \n\n      Everyone knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money\n\n\n History's first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776! \n\n      The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his submarine the Turtle because it resembled two large tortoise shells of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar. On September 6, 1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. The submarine was supposed to secure a cask of gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder could be planted. \n\nBenedict Arnold was the best general in the Continental Army! \n\n      "Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776, he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side. Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he disapproved of the French alliance\n\n By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in Washington's army was black! \n\n      At first Washington was hesitant about enlisting blacks. But when he heard they had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his mind. The all-black First Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves who were promised freedom if they served until the end of the war -- distinguished itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they were all but wiped out in a British attack. \nThere were women in the Continental Army, even a few who saw combat! \n\n      Probably the best known is Mary Ludwig Hays, nicknamed "Molly Pitcher." She replaced her wounded husband at his cannon during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Another wife of an artilleryman, Margaret Corbin, was badly wounded serving in her husband's gun crew at the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776. Thousands of other women served in Washington's army as cooks and nurses.\n\nBy 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington! \n\n      There were no less than 21 regiments (estimated to total 6,500 to 8,000 men) of loyalists in the British army. Washington reported a field army of 3,468. About a third of Americans opposed the Revolution. \n\nKing George almost abdicated the throne when the British lost! \n\n      After Yorktown, George III vowed to keep fighting. When parliament demurred, the King wrote a letter of abdication -- then withdrew it. He tried to console himself with the thought that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans long for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that, sir, he will be the greatest man in the world
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on nearby Breed's Hill, June 17, 1775.
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We have had two wars with Britian, the American Revolution and the War of 1812.  The American Revolution had many causes including taxes without corresponding representation in the British Parliament. Also resentment of the Quartering of British soldiers in colonist homes, the Boston Massacre, and the British punishment of Boston for the Boston Tea party. The War of 1812 was fought because the British were kidnapping American sailors off of American ships, and the British provoking Indians to attack Americans.