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Continental Congress voted to meet meet again in Philadelphia making

again in May of 1775 to consult for it the Second Continental Congress

future plans, but this meeting was with new members, Benjamin

at the same time violence and chaos Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

broke up in the Americas. On April The meeting was held to help form

19th, the settles made contact with a Continental Army to fight off the

the British soldiers in Lexington British with George Washington

and Concord, Massachusetts which as the commander in chief. On

started the first shots fired in the June 17th, the first major battle

Revolutionary War. took place where the newly formed

Continental Army fought back the

Chapter 2: Declaring Independence British army with its commander

General William Howe at Breed's

Later on the Continental Congress Hill in Boston. The famous battle