The Boston Tea Party: on the cold night of December 16, 1773, multiple American colonists silently crept onto British ships that were docked in Boston Harbor. The Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver were the three ships that were boarded. These disguised men then took matters into their own hands and …show more content…
After the first shots were fired on April 19, 1775, the Revolution was bound to continue. This first battle of many was won by the Americans. In Concord, the British had no other choice but to retreat from the battle, all the way back to Boston (Roxburgh 27). The numbers of dead, on the first day of fighting, were 95 Americans and 273 British (Roxburgh 27). Ellis Roxburgh acknowledges, “On the night of April 18, 1775… soldiers arrived in Lexington, 70 militia known as minutemen were waiting. A shot was fired. The war had started” (27). Of course, in every war, there is more than one