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The French had secretly sent weapons to the Patriots since early 1776.
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british had previously retreated from Boston moving the theater of war to ther Middle states
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Two brothers, General William howe and Admiral Richard Howe, joined forces on the Staten Island and sailed into New York harbor, with the largest British expenditionary force ever assembled.
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Michael Graham, a Continental army volunteer, described the chaotic withdrawal.
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British had puished Washington's army across the Delaware river.
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Washington resolved to risk everything on one bold stroke set for christmas night, he led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-chocked Delawere River. Surprise attack, Americans killes 30 of their enemy; hessians; and took 918 captives and sex Hessian cannons.
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Fewer than 8,000 men remained under Washington's command, and the terms of their enlistment.
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Americans were rallied by another astonishing victory against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton.
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Muddy fields dried out, General howe began his campaigh to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside PA, which served as the site of tjhe Continental Army's camp.
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The French recognized American independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation with the Americans,
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Valley Forge, American troops began an amazing transformation. Frildrich von Steuben volunteered his services to General Washington and went to work, to teach the soldiers better skils
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After their devastating defeat at Saratoga, the British changed their military strategy; they began to shift their operations to the South.
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A British expedition easily took Savannah, Gerogia.
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Lafayette joined Washington's staff and bore the misery of Valley Forge, lobbied for French reinforcements and led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war.
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A royal governor once again commanded Georgia.
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General Henry Clinton, who had replaced Howe in New York, along with the ambitious general Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men.
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In their greatest victory of the war, the British captured Charles Town, South Carolina and marched 5,500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war.
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A French army of 6,000 had landed in Newport, Rhode Island, after the British left the city to focus on the South.
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When the forces met at Cowpens South Carolina, the British expected the out numbered Americans to flee, but the Continental Army fought back, and forced the redcoats to surrender,
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A Continental army officer wrote a letter to Lafayette, asking for help.
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The Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris as surperintendent of finance. Morris and Salomon begged and borrowed on their personal credit to raide money to provide salaries for the Continental Army.
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The troops were finally paid in specie, or gold coin.
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With his troops outnumbered by more than two to one and exhausted from constant shelling, Cornwallis finally raised the white flag of surrender.
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Colonel William Fontaine of the Virginia militia stood with the American and French armies lining a road near yorktown, virginia, to witness the formal British surrender.
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A triumphant Washington, the French generals, and their troops assembled to accept the British surrender.
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PEACE talks began in Paris.
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The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
