From the American Battlefield Trust.
MAY 10, 1773
** Tea Act: An attempt by Parliament to undercut smugglers by reducing the price of tea to the colonies.
MAY 10, 1775
** Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga, Second Continental Congress meets.
MAY 20, 1774
** Administration of Justice Act and Massachusetts Government Act, two of the so-called Intolerable Acts, further anger colonists.
MAY 20, 1778
** Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania.
MAY 29, 1780
** Battle of Waxhaws, South Carolina.
--Cooter
