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The British retreat from from to the middle states.
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The British aseemble an expeditionary force with 32000 soliders.
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The British defeat the colonists. They get scared and runaway.
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Bristish push Washington and his army across the Delaware river. Most of them had been killed and fewer than 8000 men remained.
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The French start to help teh Americans out by sending them weapons.
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Washington and his troops surprise attack the Hessians and it ends in a VICTORY.
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Washington and his men march 9 miles through sleet and snow to Trenton. The hessians had drank too much and werent ready for them. The Americans killed 30 and captured 918 enemies.
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8 days after beatig the Bristish the Americnans went back at it. They faced 1200 British at Princeton. Washington stop at a winter camp near Morristown.
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Howe gathered his men to seize the capital of America, Philadelphia. Washington was unable to hold off the red coasts. The british captured Philly.
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American troop surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga making him surrender to Gen. Gates.
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Valley Foge is a camp where the colonists wait out the winter in the freezing cold.
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During this time at Valley Forge no one would have thought that the Americans could ever be the all powerfull British.
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Washington and his men began an amazing transformation. Friedrich von Steuben volunteer his services to help make his boys into men.
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The French recognizzed the Americans independence and signedan alliance with them
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After the defeat at Saratoga the Britishbegin to move South.
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The Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant, Robert Morris as Superintendent of Finace.
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The British easily took over Sanannah Georgia.
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A young brave French aristocrat has also offered his assitance to the Americans.
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General Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8500 men.
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The British captured Charles Town of South Carolina and marched 5500 American Soldiers off as POW.
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Cornwallis's Army had smashed forces with the Americans at Camden, South Carolina.
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Within 3 months the Britsh made forts across the state.
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A french army of 6000 arrived in Rhode Island and the british didnt notice because they were preoccupied with the south
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The british expected the Americans to flee however the Continental Army fought back and forced the red-coats to surrender.
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Greene was worried about the fight for south he decided to write a letter of help to Lafayette.
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On this day the troops were finally paid in speice, gold coins.
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Outnumbered, and exhausted Cornwallis finally waved the white flag and surrendered.
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Colonel William Fontaine of the militia of Virgina stood with the American and French armies across a road near Yorktown, to watch the British surrender.
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Deegate sign the Treaty of Paris which confirms U.S.'s inpendence and sets boundries of the new nation.
