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A Turning Point
The Patriots Had Been Recieving Weapons Secretly Being Sent From The French -
War Reaches The Middle States
The British Had Retreated From Boston Previously, Moving The Theater Of War To The Middle States -
Cooperation
General William Howe And Admiral Richard Howe, Both Brothers Decide To Join Forces On Staten Island And Sail Into New York Harbor With The Largest British Expenditionary Force Ever Assembled -
Defeat In New York
In Late August, The Battle Of New York Ended With Americans Reatreating Following The Heavy Losses They Faced -
The Battle Of Trenton
In The Face Of A Fierce Storm, Washington Leads 2,400 Men In Small Rowboats Across The Ice Strucken Delaware River. By 8 o'Clock The Next Morning, The Men Marched Nine Miles Through Sleet And Snow To Trenton, New Jersey, Which Was Held By Hessian Mercenaries. Having Confidence Over The Storm, Majority Of The Hessians Had Drinken Too Much Rum The Night Before And Were Sleeping It Off. In A Suprise Attack, The Americans Had Killed 30 Of The Mercenaries, Took 918 Captives And 6 Cannons -
Ending Of Enlistment
Fewer Than 8,000 Men Remained Under Washington's Command And The Terms Of Their Enlistment Were Due To End On December 31 1776 -
The Fight For Philadelphia
General Howe Had Started His Campaign To Capture The American Capital Of Philadelphia -
Victory At Saratoga
Burgoyne Was Surrounded By Massed American Troops, Where He And His Battered Army Surrendered To General Gates. After The Loss In Saratoga, Britain's War Strategy Had Dramatically Change -
Winter In Vally Forge
During The Winter, The Patriots Stayed In Their Own Military Camp Called Vally Forge, Which Was Outside Of British Occupied Philadelphia. But During The Stay, Many Were Left Freezing From Being Underclothed And Underfed -
A New Allie
American Independence Is Recognized By The French, While Both Sign An Alliance Or A Treaty Of Cooperation -
A Stronger Force
During The Frozen Winter At Vally Forge, American Troops Started Going Through An Amazing Transformation In Becoming An Effective Fighting Force With The Help Of Prussian Captain Friedrich Von Steuben -
Change Of Plans
The British Change Their Military Startegy And Begin Operations Down South -
Early Success
Savannah,Georgia Is Easily Tooken By The British During An Expedition -
Lafayette And The French
Marquis de Lafayette, A Couragous, Idealistic 20 Year Old French Aristocrat Had Lobbied For French Reinforcements In France -
Royal Takeover
Georgia Is Once Again Commanded By A Royal Governor -
A New Replacement
General Henry Clinton, Who Had Replaced Howe And Charles Cornwallis In New York Sailed South With 8,500 Men -
Major Enemy Victory
Known To Be For The British Their Greatest Victory Of The War, They Had Captured Charlestown, South Carolina And Marched 5,500 American Soliders As Prisoners Of War(POW) -
Cornwallis Succeding
Cornwallis Had Succeded, As The Redcoats Were Advancing, Thousands Of African Americans Who Escaped From Patriot Slave Owners Joined The British And To Their Freedom -
French Arrival At Newport
6,000 Solider Of The French Army Had Landed In Newport, Rhode Island, After The British Had Left The City To Focus In The South, The French Had Sationed One Fleet There As Well As Operating Another In The West -
Defeat In Camden
American Forces Are Smashed By Cornwallis's Army At Camden, South Carolina, And In Three Months Forts Had Been Established All Across The State By The British -
Expectations Fail
British Expected The Outnumbered Americans To Flee At Cowpens, South Carolina, But The Continental Army Resisted And Forced The Redcoats To Surrender -
Congress Apoints Superintendent Of Finace
Robert Morris, A Rich Philadelphia Merchent Was Apointed By Congress As Superintendent Of Finace -
British Loss In Cowpen, South Carolina
Greene Is Attacked By Cornwallis At Guilford Court House, North Carolina. Cornwallis Won The Battle, But It COst Him With Nearly A Fourth Of His Troops- 93 Were Killed, 400 wounded, And 26 Went Missing -
Letter To Lafayette
Greene Had Wrote A Letter To Lafayette Asking For Asistance -
Time To Get Money
Troops Finally Get Paid With Specie Or Gold Coins -
Victory At Yorktown
Following Lafayette's Plan, The Ameircans And The French Had Closed In On Cornwallis. A Naval Force From The French Had Defeated A British Fleet And Then Blocked The Entrance To Chesapeake Bay, Which Prevented A British Rescue By Sea. Meanwhile 17,000 American And French Troops Surrounded The British On The Yorktown Peninsula, Bombarding It Day And Night. From Exhaustion Of The Constant Shelling As Well As His Troops Being Outnumbered, Cornwallis Finally Raised The White Flag Of Surrender -
Accepting Success
Washington Triumphantly Along With The French Generals And Their Troops Assembled Together To Accept British Surrender -
Witnessing The Surrender
Colonial William Fontaine Of The Virginia Militia Stand With French And AmericanArmies, Lining Up On A Road Near Yorktown,Virginia To Finally Witness The Surrender Of The British -
Seeking Peace
Peace Talks Began Between Representatives Of The United States, Great Britain, France, And Spain, With Wach Nation Looking Out For Their Personal Interest -
A New Nation
The Treaty Of Paris, Which Confirmed Independence For The U.S Was Signed By Delegates, Had Set Boundaries For The New Nation, Stretching From The Atlantic Ocean To The Mississippi River And From Canada To The Border Of Florida
