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Battle of Trenton

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            In the fall of1776 was not a good time for the colonist. Washington battle had been bated, worn out and chased across New York into New Jersey he had a small army of less of 6000 men, because more of the half died due to illness desertion and enlistment expirations. He knew the best way to raise his army was by inspiring his men to stay in the ranks was a decisive victory against the British, having. He would capture or defeat the British army. The British commander was General William Howe, second commander in chief, but his appointment did not serve British interest very well and more than 1200 Hessian support them.
           On December 25 the Hessians confidence increased believing the had nothing to fear, later American army crossed the Delaware River with a heavy winter storm of rain and snow .On December 26 he led 2400 men and 18 cannons on a surprise attack. Within two hour, the battle of Trenton was over, and Washington and his men had won Therefore, in a effort to keep his troop together, Washington pledged his personal fortune to pay them and remain.
          Its was so important because it was the first time Washington troop won on a regular field and he did not lose many soldiers. The Hessian escape and some of them became American Farmers and tradesmen. He not also won the battle also gained six cannons and 40 horses that were quickly transported to Pennsylvania.

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General Thomas Gage
         
                 Thomas Gage was born at Firle, England in 1719.  He studied in Westminster School and finishing school, Gage joined the British Army as an ensign, before becoming lieutenant in the Northampton Regiment on January 30, 1741. The following year he was transferred to Battereau's Foot Regiment. In 1743, Gage was promoted to captain. Gage saw action at the Battle of Fontenoy and served in Scotland. While with the 55th, Gage proved himself an able leader and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1751. He also participated in the French and Indian War.
        In 1761, Gage was promoted to major general and two years later returned to New York acting as commander in chief. This appointment was made official on November 16, 1764. As the new commander in chief in America, the two years that came were merely Indian battles of sporadic fighting; and the peace treaty with the Indian natives was concluded in July 1766. As peace was achieved on the frontier tensions were rising in the colonies due to variety of taxes imposed by London.
        Following the fighting at Lexington and Concord, Gage found himself intimidated in Boston by a growing colonial army. Concerned that his wife, a colonial by birth, was helping the enemy, Gage sent her away to England. Helped in May by 4,500 men under major general William Howe, Gage began planning a breakout. In the resulting Battle of Bunker Hill, Gage`s men were able to capture the heights. That October, Gage was recalled to England and Howe given temporary command of British forces in America.
            Arriving England, Gage told to Lord George Germain, now the Secretary of State of the American Colonies that a big army would be necessary to defeat the Americans and that foreign troops would need to be hired. In April 1776, command was permanently given to Howe and Gage placed on the inactive list, he still kept his position of general by November 20, 1782. Gage saw little active service and died at the Isle of Portland on April 2, 1787.
             

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Battle of Princeton

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Battle of Princeton
            After there successful victory at Trenton, the spirits were high in Washington´s Continental Army. But the general Howe as looking for a revenge so he command General Charles Cornwallis to take his 8000 man army to transferred to New York City and attack the American forces and joining to General James Grant who had a small troop in the area.
            On January 2, 1777 Cornwallis´s men fought their way to Trenton capturing the city after a brief and a sharp battle. Eventually he told his confident told his general officers that everything was in place and he would take Washington as a hunter bags a fox. But the fox had other plan. Washington unnatural slip away with most of his men, in the evening leaving 400 men in the camp they circle around the enemy making a quite stroke.
            On January 3 Lieutenant Colonel Mawhood left a small force behind in Princeton and proceeded south to join Cornwallis. He awoke to the sound of the artillery fire to his north of Princeton. The American forces were command under Brigadier General Hugh Mercer. He then realized he had been tricked and that the Continental army was attaching Princeton. It was another battle won for the Patriots while the British troop retreated toward Trenton, Washington decided not to follow knowing that his army is to small and too tiered to meet Cornwallis’s head on.

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Battle of Bunker Hill


       As an introduction we can say that first The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, only days after George Washington was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and despite the name, the battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill. The Battle of Lexington and Concord, the patriot militia controlled the hills surrounding Boston. The patriots heard through their spies that the British were planning to attack Bunker Hill. The patriots sent 1600 men to set up fortifications on Breed's Hill, which was closer to Boston. On June 17, 1775 General Howe led 2600 British soldiers up Breed's Hill. British warships also fired on the patriot’s position. 
        
       With the outbreak of the war General Gage, the British commander in chief, found himself with the odds against them in Boston by the American Continental Army, occupying the hills to the West of the city. On the night of 16th June 1775 around 1,500 American troops of the Massachusetts regiments and Putnam’s Connecticut regiment occupied Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill on the peninsula. Plans were hurriedly put in motion by the British to attack the Americans and drive them from their position. Major General Howe, one of the three generals sent from Britain to assist General Gage, was given the command. More American troops gathered on Bunker Hill but few of them could be persuaded to move to the forward positions on Breed’s Hill.

        General Howe now launched a frontal assault on the redoubt with the main body of his troops. This attack was driven back with heavy loss, in spite of an American shortage of ammunition. A final attack was made, concentrating on the center of the American position. The American ammunition was all but exhausted and this final assault forced the Americans to retreat and leave the peninsula. The British suffered some 1,150 killed and wounded and the Americans were estimated at 450 killed and wounded. The British took over the Bunker and Breed’s Hill positions and fortified them, holding them until they evacuated Boston at the end of the year. The battle was the first action for the Continental Army and showed how much work there was to be done in making an effective army.
The battle had a number of lessons for the British. The British troops were undisciplined and disorganized. For both sides Bunker Hill was the start of a journey in military education.

 
       

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