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French Alliance
French recognized american independene and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation with the americans. -
Early 1776
The french had secretly sent weapons to the patriots -
Britsh retreat
British retreat from Boston, moving theater war to the middle states -
Summer of 1776
General William Howe an admiral richard how joined forces on staten island and sailed into New York harbor -
Christmas night
Washington led 2,400 men across the delaware river, in a suprise attack the american won the battle of trenton -
Due date
Terms of enlistment were due to end on this date. -
Battle at Princeton
American's won another victory at princeton -
Spring of 1777
General Howe began his campaign to seize the american capital at philly -
Late august
Howe's troops sailed from NY to the head of chesapeake bay an landed near the capital -
Saratoga
American troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga where he surrendered his army to General Gates -
Winter of 1777-1778
Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside Philly, which served as the site of Continental army's camp -
Valley Forge
In the midst of the frozen winter at Valley Forge, american troops began an amazing transformation -
Summer of 1778
British began to shift their operations to the south -
End of 1778
British expedition easily took Savannah,Georgia -
1779
Lafayette joined Washington staff, lobbied for french renforcements in France, led a command in Virginia. -
Spring of 1779
Royal governor once again commanded Georgia -
1780
General Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men -
Charles town
British capture Charles town, South Carolina, marched 5,500 american soldiers off as prisoners of war -
Three months later
Cornwalls army smahsed forces in Camden,South Carolina and established forts across the state -
1781
Congress appointed a rich philly merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance -
Cowpens
Continental army gets doubted by british but fights back and makes them surrender at Cowpens,South Carolina -
Two months later
Cornwallis attacked Greene, won the war but it cost him a fourth of his troops -
Letter for help
Green writes a letter to Lafayette, asking him for help -
pay day
Troops were finally paid in specie, or gold coins -
White flag at yorktown
Cornwallis raised the white flag of surrender at yorktown -
pt.1 oct 19
Colonel William Fontaine of the Virginia milita stood with the american and french armies lining a road near yorktown -
Pt.2 october
Washington, French generals and their troops assembled to accept the british surrender -
Peace talks
peace talks begin in Paris -
Signed treaty
Delegates sign treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
