The Redcoats Leave Boston
• Gen. Washington had the cannons taken from Fort Ticonderoga placed on Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston and its harbor.
• British General Howe gave up the city of Boston, leaving with his troops for Halifax, Canada.
* However, King George III ordered a blockade of all colonial ports.
* Also, Hessian troops from Germany were hired to help fight the colonists.
- Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that helped convince thousands of colonists to support independence from Great Britain.
Signing of the Declaration
- In June of 1776, the Continental Congress agreed that a Declaration of Independence needed to be written.
- On July 4, 1776, the delegates accepted the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson.
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