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  2. 5 days ago · Here are 10 overlooked Revolutionary War heroes you should know about. ... Crispus Attucks was an American whaler, sailor and stevedore of African and Native American descent. Attucks is known to ...

  3. 2 days ago · Crispus Attucks, a (c. 1943) portrait by Herschel Levit depicts Attucks, who is considered to be the first American to die for the cause of independence in the Revolution. An African American soldier (left) of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. military history

  4. 4 days ago · Crispus attucks Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution. On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed them. Five colonists were killed.

  5. 4 days ago · In Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, explore the battlegrounds where “the shot heard ’round the world” rang out in 1775, igniting the Revolutionary War.

  6. 3 days ago · The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army.

  7. 2 days ago · Crispus Attucks, a free Black tradesman, was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre and of the ensuing American Revolutionary War. 5,000 Black people, including Prince Hall, fought in the Continental Army. Many fought side by side with White soldiers at the battles of Lexington and Concord and at Bunker Hill.

  8. 5 days ago · Crispus Attucks was a former slave who was killed at the infamous Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, and became the first American killed in the fight for American independence. Source: Author ghosttowner

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