August 30, 1775: - The 1st US actual pitched-battle victory- Ben Arnold with Ethan Allen & The Green Mountain (Vermont) Boys beat up on the Other Guys. (No bar bets on this one. I can't quite figger out where the battle was. It isn't Fort Ticonderoga, which was the 1st US victory at all on 5/10/1775. Lex/Concord had been 4/19/1775.) Anyway, I haven't found a song directly about it yet but it seems the Brits were still smarting about it nearly 40 years later & had the notion in 1814 that they'd make up for the loss...   There's a song about that deal.

                  We've as choice a British army as ever crossed the seas,
                  We'll burn both town and city, and with smoke becloud the skies,
                  We'll subdue the old green mountain boys, their Washington is gone,
                  And we'll play them Yankee Doodle, as the Yankees did Burgoyne.
  
                          "Noble Lads Of Canada," The Forget Me Not Songster, 1835 edition.

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