1 mai 1775 - Second
Continental
Congress
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A new meeting of the Continental Congress, where they wrote the Olive Branch Petition, which offered a way to end the war, but asked for a ceasefire, repeal of the Coercive Acts, and an establishment of the rights of colonists. They also established the Continental Army, naming George Washington as Commander in Chief.
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