Events
Boston Massacre Trials
This site from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Center provides background information on the Boston Massacre and includes a timeline of events, profiles of key figures, images, trial transcripts and accounts.
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Boston Massacre Trials
Another account of the trials from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
This site from the Massachusetts Historical Society provides personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
This site from the British Battles looks the Bunker Hill from a British perspective.
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
Account of the battle from Department of Military Science - Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Site includes links to additional resources.
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Patriots Day
Learn about the Battle of Lexington and Concord at this companion site to the PBS series American Experience. You will find a timeline of events, an interactive map, and details on key people and events. You will also learn more about current day re-enacting.
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Battle of Saratoga
Account of the battle from Department of Military Science - Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Site includes links to additional resources.
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Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
This online exhibit from the Library of Congress looks at the event leading up to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and includes primary source materials and a chronology of events.
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The Duel
This site, a companion to the PBS series The American Experieince episode, includes a timeline of events leading up to the duel between Hamilton and Burr, an examiniation of the Burr Conspiracy, biographies of key people and events of the period, a look at the history of dueling in America, an examination of Hamiltons role in the framing of the Constitution, and includes the 25 rules that make up the "Code Duello."
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