4 events found for 1776
American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to
American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of
American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battl
The Fifth Virginia Convention adopted a declaration of rights, an influential document that proclaimed the inherent righ