Fighting Breaks Out

Fighting Breaks Out in the Lead-up to the American Revolution:

• First Continental Congress

• Battles of Lexington & Concord

  • • Including Paul Revere and the "Shot Heard 'round the World" 

• Second Continental Congress

• The Battle of Bunker Hill

• The Olive Branch Petition

• Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• Dorchester Heights (The British Abandon Boston)

• The Declaration of Independence