Primary Sources

• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Bloody Butchery, by the British Troops: or, The Runaway Fight of the Regulars (1775)
• A Circumstantial Account of an Attack that Happened on the 19th of April 1775, on His Majesty's Troops (1775)

• Significant Events

  1773
  • Boston Tea Party (1795)
  • Destruction of Tea in Boston Harbor in 1773 (ca. 1835)

  1775

         Battles of Concord and Lexington (April 1775)

  • The Struggle on Concord Bridge (1859)
  • Retreat of the British from Concord (1874)
  • Battle of Lexington (1856)

        Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775)

  • View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, June 17. 1775. (ca. 1783)
  • Fortifying Breed's Hill in the Night, June 16, 1775 (1856)
  • An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775 (1775)
  • A Correct View of the Late Battle at Charlestown June 17th, 1775 (1775)
  • The Battle at Bunker's Hill, near Boston, June 7th, 1775 (1832)

         Washington Takes Command (July 1775)

  • Washington Taking Command of the Troops at Cambridge (1941)

   

   

• Significant People

  • Gen'l Warren taking leave of his wife and child on the eve of the battle of Bunker Hill (unknown)
  • Putnam receiving the news of the Battle of Lexington (unknown)
  • Gen. Marion in his swamp encampment inviting a British Officer to dinner (1840)

• Women

  • Female Patriotism- Mrs. Steele & Gen. Green "Take it, you will need it, and I can do without the money." (1856)
  • Mrs. Schuyler firing her corn fields on the approach of the British (1856)
  • Molly Pitcher (1854)

• Views of Common Places

  • A View of the Bridge over the Charles River (1795)
  • View of Faneuil Hall (1789)
  • A View of the Green in Lexington (1794)
  • A View of Concord, taken in 1776 (1794)

• A New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston. And Provincial Camp (1776)

• First published announcement of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

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Last updated May 20, 2005