Video: 'U.S. NAVAL HISTORY: 1 / 4: War of Independence 1775 - 1783 (720p)' (Oct. 13, 1775, at 5:58)
(Friday, October 13, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The United States Navy had its origins today as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
(Monday, September 25, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured today by the British today as he led an attack on Montreal.
Video: 'King George III Proclamation - Colonies in Open Rebellion'
(Wednesday, August 23, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — Britain’s King George III today delivered his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James’s stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
Video: 'John Adams Suggests Mass. Militas Join Together to Create Continental Army'
(Thursday, June 15, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The Second Continental Congress elected George Washington, 43, as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army today by unanimous vote.
Video: 'John Adams Suggests Mass. Militas Join Together to Create Continental Army'
(Wednesday, June 14, 1775; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The Second Continental Congress decided today to proceed with the establishment of a Continental Army for purposes of common defense, adopting the forces already in place outside Boston and New York.
Video: 'The Revolution Part01 Boston Bloody Boston' (Apr. 19, 1775, at 32:30)
(Wednesday, April 19, 1775, 5:00 a.m.; during the American Revolutionary War, part of the American Revolution) — The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War began today with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.
Video: 'The American Revolution Biography Paul Revere The Midnight Rider - Full Documentary' (Apr. 18, 1775, 21:49)
(Tuesday, April 18, 1775, 11:00 p.m.; during the American Revolution) — Paul Revere tonight began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning American colonists that the British were coming.
Video: 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'
(Thursday, March 23, 1775; during the American Revolution) — Patrick Henry, an American Founding Father, delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention today in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Video: ‘The First Continental Congress September 5 October 26 1774’
(Monday, September 5, 1774; during the American Revolution) — The First Continental Congress, a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present), met today at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament.
