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XX – The Revolution Begins

XX – The Revolution Begins. Colonial Army 1. militia – no training 2. minutemen – could be ready to fight in one minute B. Lexington and Concord 1. First shots of the war were fired 2. “The shot heard around the world.” 3. Paul Revere’s warning – The British are coming! .

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XX – The Revolution Begins

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  1. XX – The Revolution Begins • Colonial Army 1. militia – no training 2. minutemen – could be ready to fight in one minute B. Lexington and Concord 1. First shots of the war were fired 2. “The shot heard around the world.” 3. Paul Revere’s warning – The British are coming!

  2. XX – The Revolution Begins (cont) C. Pattrick Henry 1. “Give me liberty or give me death!” 2. Formed a Continental Congress 3. George Washington is now General D. Bunkerhill in Boston 1. At first the militia ran away when the English fired their first shots. 2. Colonists low on weapons and supplies. 3. “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” 4. Guns of Fort Ticonderoga save the colonists. 5. British wake up the next morning with large cannons aimed at them. 6. British retreat from Boston.

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