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Revolutionary War Facts
 * The first man shot in the Boston Massacre was a black man named Crispus Attucks.
 * About 5,000 African American men and boys fought in the war.
 * George Washington rarely had even 15,000 men under his command at a time.
 * Washington did not receive pay for his military service.
 * Benjamin Franklin was able to get foreign support from France, Spain and the Netherlands, which helped weaken the British.
 * British soldiers called redcoats because of the color of their uniforms.
 * The largest city in America in 1775 was Philadelphia.
 * Boston and New York were the next largest cities.
 * Farming was the main occupation in the colonies.
 * Only a small amount of people lived in the cities.
 * About one third of the colonial people supported the king and thought of themselves as Loyalists.
 * About 100,000 Loyalists fled to Canada, England, and the Bahamas.
 * Even though Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown in 1781, the fighting lasted for two more years until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.

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