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04/19/1775 |
Siege of Boston begins. |
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04/22/1775 |
Gen. Thomas Gage prohibits residents from leaving Boston. |
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04/27/1775 |
Gen. Gage allows residents of Boston to leave the city – if they turn in their weapons. |
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05/10/1775 |
Colonial troops capture Fort Ticonderoga in New York. |
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05/10/1775 |
Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. |
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05/13/1775 |
As a show of force, Gen. Israel Putnam leads some 2,200 Colonial troops from Cambridge to Charlestown. |
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05/23/1775 |
Colonial forces in Roxbury are reinforced by the arrival of 1,400 troops from Rhode Island. |
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05/24/1775 |
John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. |
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05/25/1775 |
Gens. John Burgoyne, Henry Clinton, and William Howe arrive in Boston. |
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05/27/1775 |
Battle of Chelsea Creek is fought. |
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