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French Indian War
During the first year of war, the British experienced defeat after defeat. -
Stmap Act
Placed a tax on legal documents -
Townshend
Another attemp to tax colonies on land, paper, cloth, and tea -
Decloration of Independance
Defeated the British for the Indepoendence -
Saratoga
Intervention of the French caused the British to adopt a new military strategy -
The British moved to the south
They failed in the north. -
British took Savannah, Georgia
A month later, British established a royal government. -
The war turned in the favor of the Americans
The French joind the war, fighting with the Americans -
The war went on for over one year.
When the British lost at Yorktown, people knew independence had been won. -
Cornwallis (British) moved troops to Yorktown, Virginia
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Washington wanted his troops moved to Chesapeake Bay.
He wanted to cut off British supplies from New York.