April 19, 1775: At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission
to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green.

Suddenly, a shot was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud
of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others
were wounded.

         
British Major John Pitcairn     Captain John Parker

On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American
colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston and began
taunting the British soldiers guarding the building.

The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting
the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to
Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed
by a British parliament that lacked American representation.

British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the
Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join
the guard outside the building.

The other soldiers began firing a moment later, and when the
smoke cleared, five colonists were dead or dying—Crispus
Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick and
James Caldwell—and three more were injured.

Although it is unclear whether Crispus Attucks, an African
American, was the first to fall as is commonly believed, the
deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as
the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War.

On November 25, 1783, nearly three months after the Treaty of
Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last
British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British
military position in the former Thirteen Colonies.

After the last Redcoat departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New
Yorkers (below). The city had remained in British hands since
its capture in September 1776.

Four months after New York was returned to the victorious
Patriots, the city was declared to be the capital of the United
States.

Last boat-load of British troops evacuating New  York. City.

Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General
Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and
seamen to a  larger Franco-American force on October
19, 1781, effectively bringing an end to the American
Revolution.

ED  DANAHUE

The show originally aired on CBS from September 19, 1970,        
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show  received consistent praise from critics
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Mary Tyler Moore (1936 – 2017)

In addition to her acting work, Moore was the 
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