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New York City
British planned to stop rebellion by isolating New England. The British attempted to seize New York. Sailed into the New York harbor with 32,000 soldiers including Hessians. -
German Mercenaries
Hessians- Germans hired to fight for Britain. -
Patriots/ Loyalists
Patriots wanted independence and loyalists wanted to stay under British rule -
Washington-Christmas night- 1776
Washington and his men cross the frozen Delaware river Christmas night amid the next morning to launch a surprise attack on the Hessians surrendered -
Battle of Saratoga
British General Burgoyne was leading his men down from Canada and he was expecting reinforcements but the other British troops were preoccupied so the Americans were able to surround Burgoyne and his men. -
Battle of Valley Forge
Washington and his army- low on food and supplies- fought to stay alive at the camp during the winter. More than 2,00 men died but the survivors didn't desert. -
Friedrich Von Steuben
A Prussian captan and talented drill master, helped train the contenental army at valley forge. -
Savannah, Georgia
The British easily took it over and it was their greatest victory of the war. Won by British generals Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis. -
Marquis de Lafayette
French military leader who arrived at valley forge to offer help. Lobbied for French reinforcements and let a command in Virginia in the last years of the war. -
Inflation
When more money is printed and its value plunges causing rising prices -
Charles Town, S.C.
Captured by British generals Cornwallis and Clinton. -
Cornwallis
One of the British generals that captured Charlestown, South Carolina. -
Robert Morris and Haym Salomon
Congress appointed Robert Morris as superintendent. Haym Salomon a Jewish political refugee from Poland was his associate. They begged and borrowed on their personal credit to gain money for the continental army. -
Yorktown
Where Cornwallis and his men camped at following many losses. They planned to take Virginia. Lafayette and Washington defeated British by using a French naval force and blocking the entrance to the Chesapeake bay. -
Treaty of Paris
The delegates signed it conferring u.s. Independence and set the boundaries.
