The Capture of Savannah , or sometimes the First Battle of Savannah ( because of a siege in 1779 ) , was an American Revolutionary War battle fought Hostile_encounter on December 29 , 1778 pitting local American Patriot militia and Continental Army units , holding the city , against a British invasion force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell .

Shays was a farmhand from Massachusetts at the beginning of the Revolutionary War ; he joined Participation the Continental Army , saw action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord , Battle of Bunker Hill , and Battles of Saratoga , and was eventually wounded in action .

The British destroyed Destroying military defenses in the area , including supplies that had been cached by the Continental Army in anticipation of an assault on British-occupied Newport , Rhode Island .

Continental Airlines Flight 12 , is a scheduled Hold domestic passenger flight that on July 1 , 1965 was operated Being_in_operation by a Boeing 707 jet liner , registration from Los Angeles International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport with an intermediate at Kansas City Downtown Airport .

Continental continued to use Using the `` Flight 12 '' designation on its Honolulu to Los Angeles routing .

Colonists up and down the Thirteen Colonies in turn responded Response to the Intolerable Acts with additional acts Action of protest , and by convening the First Continental Congress , which petitioned the British monarch for repeal Process_end of the acts Action and coordinated colonial resistance Defending to them .

These forces were first opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act weakly by Virginia militia , but General George Washington sent Sending first Marquis de Lafayette and then Anthony Wayne with Continental Army troops to oppose Agree_or_refuse_to_act the raiding and economic havoc the British were wreaking .

Altogether , more than 200 million people were affected Influence , in an area ranging Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and extending Expansion south to include Cause_to_be_included roughly 187 million residents of the Continental United States .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Staten Island was a failed Earnings_and_losses raid Attack by Continental Army troops under Major General John Sullivan against British forces Military_operation on Staten Island on August 22 , 1777 , during the American Revolutionary War Hostile_encounter .

As a result , Continental losses of dead Death , wounded Bodily_harm , and captured Conquering were each double or more those of the British , depriving Washington of some 180-300 men needed for his campaign Military_operation .

The Canoe River train crash Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be on November 21 , 1950 , near Valemount in eastern British Columbia , Canada , when a westbound troop train and the eastbound Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) `` Continental Limited Limiting '' collided Catastrophe head-on .

After several false starts Process_start in early September , the Continental Army established Building a siege Besieging around Fort St. Jean .

The French made Action numerous efforts to supply Supply their colonies during this period , attempting to use Using fast frigates to bring Bringing food and military Military_operation stores to the Caribbean past the British blockades , themselves a response Response to Napoleon 's Continental System , but often losing Earnings_and_losses the vessels in the process .

Continental Army and militia forces under the command Control of General John Sullivan had been besieging Besieging the British forces in Newport , Rhode Island , which is situated Placing on Aquidneck Island , but they had finally abandoned GiveUp their siege and were withdrawing Escaping to the northern part of the island .

The battle Hostile_encounter ended Process_end inconclusively , but the Continental forces withdrew Escaping to the mainland and left Giving Aquidneck Island in British hands .

The final act was a rally Hold at the Memorial Continental Hall with prominent speakers , including Anna Howard Shaw and Helen Keller .

General Charles Lee , commanding Control the southern Continental theater of the war Hostile_encounter ,

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Quebec ( ) was fought Hostile_encounter on December 31 , 1775 , between American Continental Army forces Causation and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War Military_operation .

The signing Sign_agreement was witnessed Scrutiny by the Foreign Ministers of Germany and Poland , Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Radosław Sikorski , respectively , and the Director of the Continental Europe Department of the French Foreign Ministry , Eric Fournier .