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.

As British General William Howe anticipates surrender, General Washington fleas across the East River under cover of darkness.