Chapter 8
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Chapter 8 America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783 ? Congress Drafts George Washington The Second Continental Congress selected George Washington to head the army besieging Boston. ? Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings From April 1775 to July 1776, the colonists were both affirming their loyalty to the king by sincerely voicing their desire to patch up difficulties while at the same time raising armies and killing redcoats. In May 1775, a tiny American force under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point.? There, a store of gunpowder and artillery was secured.? In June 1775, the colonists captured Bunker Hill.? The British took it back with a large number of soldiers.
