The Battle of Boston Neck.

On this day in 1775,

Continental volunteers led by Maj. Benjamin Tupper and Capt. John Crane attack a British outpost routing the British guard, and burned down the guardhouse and the Battle of Boston Neck.

And in 1779,

Maj. Gen. Clinton's raiders burn the entire town of Fairfield, CT to the ground.
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The Battle of Hubbardton

On this day in 1777,

British and Patriot forces in the Saratoga campaign engage in the only battle fought in Vermont territory during the War for Independence, at The Battle of Hubbardton.
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The Battle of Skenesborough

On this day in 1777,

Maj. Gen. John Burgoyne’s British navy shoot their way through the port defenses at the site where small US Naval ships were assembled for the Lake Champlain campaign. American defenders attempt to destroy their poorly maintained fortifications and depart for Fort Anne to the south. A small party pursues the fleeing rebels and the remainder awaited the arrival of Burgoyne at the Battle of Skenesborough.
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The Battle of Vincennes

On this day in 1776,

The Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence.

And in 1778,

Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark, fresh from his victorious campaign against the Kaskaskia and Cahokia settlements on the Illinois, captures Vincennes, a settlement of about seven hundred inhabitants on the Wabash River at The Battle of Vincennes.
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Battle of Wyoming, PA

On this day in 1778,

Settlers, led by Col. Nathan Denison, were greatly out numbered by the combined British and Indian forces that attacked and then massacred them near Forty Fort at the Battle of Wyoming, PA.
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Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga

On this day in 1776,

The second Continental Congress declares it's independence from Great Britain.

And in 1777,

Brig. Gen. Simon Fraser's light infantry and Brig. Gen. Baron von Riedesel's advancing units exchange volleys at the marshy banks of Eagle Creek at the foot of Mount Independence. When the smoke cleared, no one had been injured at another Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga.
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Indian nations

No major battles occurred on this date.

But in 1775, the Continental Congress resolves to recruit Indian nations to the American side in their dispute with the British, should the British take native allies of their own. Few “such Indians Nations” saw any advantage to joining the Patriot cause. Rather, they saw Great Britain as their last defense against the encroaching land-hungry European settlers into their ancestral territory.
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