The Battle of Lexington.
This battle was officially the first battle the redcoats and minutemens fought each other. The minutemen were less well trained, and overnumbered, and so lost to the better trained larger group of British troops
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They did not want slavery to spread.
Answer:
See below.
Explanation:
Tet was launched in January 30th 1968, Tet being the Chinese New Year.
The attack was a complete surprise. The guard of the South Vietnamese army was lowered by Tet celebrations. Moreover the Vietcong and NVA switched their offensive from the countryside to the cities, which again took the South Vietnamese and Americans by surprise.
The fact that the Vietcong could get right inside the American embassy in Saigon emphasized the surprise nature of the attack.
Tet was actually a military defeat for the communists as they sustained massive losses. However psychologically it was a massive victory for them. Widespread coverage of the raging battles in cities such as Saigon and Hue on American televisions every night, swayed public opinion against the war, as the images suggested the Vietcong could go anywhere, and so it suggested the US was losing the war.
American colonist resents British taxes mainly because <span>Americans did not elect representatives to parliament as people who lived in Great Britain did.</span>
