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Significance First armed conflict. Propaganda victory LexingtonApril 1775 Massachusetts for U.S. Casualties: U.S.:95. British: Concord 270 Lake Ethan Allen captured fort and cannon Ft. Ticonderoga May 1775 Champlain later used in defense of Boston 1/6 of all British officers killed in war Breed's Hill June 1775 Boston die here. Only battle in long siege of (Bunker Hill) Boston Invasion of Winter Gens. Arnold and Montgomery failed in Maine/Canada Quebec 1775-76 invasion attempt of Canada Dorchester March Boston British forced to evacuate New England Heights 1776 Declaration of 2nd Continental Congress issues formal July 1776 Philadelphia Independence declaration of separation from British August U.S. forces forced to retreat to Long Island New York 1776 Manhattan, then New Jersey Hessian army crushed in Washington's December Trenton New Jersey raid across the Delaware River. 1776 Casualties: U.S. :4, British: 900 U.S. recovers New Jersey from British January Princeton New Jersey in 10 days. British retreat to New New 1777 York, where they remain for the war. September Brandywine 1777 British seize Philadelphia after these Creek Pennsylvania October victories Germantown 1777

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