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| c. 1775 |
| | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1775 |
| | Pioneer Daniel Boone and other backwoodsmen cut the road west that will bring settlers to Kentucky | |
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| 1775 |
| | Patrick Henry makes a stirring declaration – 'Give me liberty or give me death' – to the Virginia Assembly | |
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| 1775 |
| | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1775 |
| | General Gage sends a detachment of British troops to seize weapons held by American Patriots at Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | Paul Revere is one of the US riders taking an urgent warning to Concord, but he is captured on the journey | |
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| 1775 |
| | The first shot of the American Revolution is fired in a skirmish between redcoats and militiamen at Lexington, on the road to Concord | |
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| 1775 |
| | Delegates from the states reassemble in Philadelphia, with hostilities against the British already under way in Massachusetts | |
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| 1775 |
| | Delegates in Philadelphia select George Washington as commander-in-chief of the colonial army | |
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| 1775 |
| | At Bunker Hill, overlooking Boston from the north, the American militiamen prove their worth against British professional soldiers | |
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