In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.

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Take away a pie and a plastic spoon for a sunset picnic at the waterfront Louis Valentino Jr Park, once home to Fort Defiance, which protected Manhattan from British ships in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

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In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont.

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England went through revolutionary traumas over a century before the American war of independence.

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At the time of the revolutionary war around 40m buffalo roamed the North American continent.

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Among the most sought after are a collection of early revolutionary war muskets produced by the Committee of Safety, a group of American gun makers who copied British muskets and supplied them to militia units fighting for the colonies.

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