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Boston
Major colonial port city and political center in British North America that served as a focal point of imperial tension and revolutionary mobilization.
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Concord, Massachusetts
Massachusetts town targeted by a British expedition in April 1775 and associated with the outbreak of open war in the colonies.
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England
Country in the southern part of Great Britain that became one of the central political, cultural, and economic regions of European and global history.
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France
Primary territorial frame for the French Revolution and a major center of early modern and modern political transformation.
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Hastings
English town associated above all with the decisive battle of 1066 that enabled the Norman conquest of England.
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India
South Asian subcontinent and major civilizational region with a long history of political, religious, linguistic, economic, and cultural development across multiple polities and empires.
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Lexington, Massachusetts
Massachusetts town that became one of the opening sites of armed conflict in the American War of Independence.
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Mysore
South Indian region and political center associated with the kingdom ruled by Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan.
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Paris
Political capital and key urban arena of revolutionary mobilization during the French Revolution.
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Philadelphia
Major political center of the American revolutionary movement and the city in which the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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Saratoga
New York campaign region associated with a major American victory that altered the diplomatic course of the war.
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Yorktown
Virginia site of the decisive 1781 siege that brought the war in North America to its effective military conclusion.