General Lee disobeys Washington's orders, so that the British cannot be halted on their way to New York
Monmouth I
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Aided by the French, General Clark overwhelms the British garrison
Vincennes A
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Despite the French fleet in the harbor, the British defeat Pulaski's French and American forces
Savannah B
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The British capture General Lincoln and 5,000 Americans
Charleston B
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General Morgan captures nine-tenths of the opposing British force
Cowpens A
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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only
Taxation without actual representation
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures
Taxation without actual representation
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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands
Proclamation line
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For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
Quebec act
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For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever