Colonial Leaders and British Commanders

Some of the Colonial Leaders were:

George Washington

Richard Montgomery

John Parker

Colonel James Barrett

Colonel John Buttrick

William Heath

Dr. Joseph Warren

Benedict Arnold

Ethan Allen

William Prescott

Israel Putnam

Daniel Morgan

William Alexander

Robert Magaw

Nathanael Greene

Nicholas Herkimer

Horatio Gates

Robert Howe

Benjamin Lincoln

Johann de Kalb

Marquis de la Rouerie

James Johnston

William Campbell

John Sevier

John Stark

There were also British Commanders like:

Sir William Howe

Sir Henry Clinton

Lord Charles Cornwallis

Sir Guy Carleton

Major-General Francis Smith

Major John Pitcairn

Lieutenant-General Hugh Percy

Captain William DeLaPlace

Wilhelm von Knyphausen

Johann Rall

Charles Mawhood

Sir John Johnson

John Butler

Chief Joseph Brant

General John Burgoyne

Colonel Archibald Campbell

Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot

Banastre Tarleton

Francis Rawdon-Hastings

Patrick Ferguson

Alexander Stewart

Friedrich Baum

The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre was considered the largest protest in Boston. Parliament in that time messed up with the Massachusetts Legislation. Then there appeared a ship of John Hancock which was a merchant and a politician. They were seizing the boat caused riots so they have to take some risks and warnings for this to stop. They sent troops which remained in Boston because colonists were the ones who helped with all the needs of the soldiers. So one day the colonial soldiers starting throwing snowballs to the British soldiers and they killed 5 of the colonists. This was finally called the Boston Massacre because of the death of these five soldiers. In 1773, colonies made colonial unity between them and they removed all the troops they had. For revenge with the British, they started buying more Dutch Tea than the British Tea. After this, happened the famous Boston Tea Party which also led other problems to the colonists.

Boston Tea Party

This Action was taken by the colonists when the East India Company send them the tea to their port. Parliament set the law to sell directly to the colonists from the companies, so it was cheaper than the smugglers which was the Dutch tea. The colonists refused to pay these taxes. So one time the colonists were so tired, that three tea ships caused a very furious reaction in them. At night the colonists went to the port they dumped the tea to the sea. This caused that the British people got angry and started collecting money from the colonists to pay all the looses that this action had caused. So the colonists were getting tired of all these abuses the British had with them. This was the famous act called the ''Boston Tea Party''.

Sugar Act

The Sugar Act was when the Parliament declared to pay taxes on every foreign molasses of things that were being imported to the colonies. They made that the French Molasses were more expensive then the British ones so colonists decided to pay more taxes to them then to the other ones. Lord Greenville was trying to make the colonies in line of the taxes. Later on many other products were also paying the taxes like: sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico. All these products were also producing taxes to the British so one day the colonists were too tired of just working to pay the taxes of the British that they were angry so what they did was the British to stop the Sugar Act and invent something else that people was afford to pay.

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Stamp Act

It was a new rule that the British Colonies applied in the colonies in America that said that every document, or thing that was printed had to be produced on a stamp paper which represented that people had payed taxes. Some of the objects that had to get the stamp were newspapers, magazines, documents, and other types. These taxes were needed to support the troops that were in America and to support them in the ''Seven Years War''. This tax was such a problem to the colonists that they were all against it. They made something that was against the Stamp Act called: the Sons of Liberty and at the end the British Government couldn't handle them and they had to took the Stamp Act law away.