General Washington led 20,000 American and French troops to victory at Valley Forge.

The British were forced to surrender 2 days after patriot soldiers captured the fort at Yorktown in 1781.

Shots fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 would spark the American Revolution.

In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.