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#1 The Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental army, but before he could take command, the bloody Battle of Bunker Hill had further ruptured the relationship between the colonies and Britain, making any attempt at a late peace seem even more improbable.
#2 The Boston Port Act and the New England Restraining Act...
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"The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, that truly revealed the new nation's character-above...
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