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Since early 1776 the French have supplied the Americans with weapons.
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British move from the New Engaland states to the middle states.
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Two brothers by the name General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe joined forces with the largest British force ever assembled with 32,000 soldiers. This included thousands of German mercenaries. With these men they sailed to New York.
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On this date the Patriots lost to the British in New York
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Michael Graham was a Continental Army volunteer that described the chaotic withdrawl. He wrote of canons blasting and his fellow soldiers being killed. It was truly a gruesome sight for him.
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In a fierce storm Washington and his men sailed across the frezzing Delaware River.
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At 8 o'clock in the morning they marched nine miles in snow to Trenton, New Jersey. The Patriots attacked the drunk Hessians and killed 30, took 918 captive and took six cannons.
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The Patriots also beat 1,200 British soldiers at Princeton.
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Spring of 1777 General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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Many American troops surrounded General John Burgoyne at Saratoga. He surrendered his army to General Gates.
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Served as the Continental Army's camp during the winter. Here the Patriots huddled together in makeshift huts.
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French signs an alliance with the Americans.
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After their defeat at Saratoga the British travelled south.
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At the end of 1778 a British expedition took Savannah, Georgia. By spring 1779 a new commander commanded Georgia. In 1780 Henry Clinton along with the general Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500. In May 1780 the British captured Charles Town, South Carolina. For most of 1780 Cornwallis succeeded.
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20 year old military leader, Marquis da Lafayette joined the Americans and commanded in Virginia for the last few years of the war.
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In 1780 the French arrived with an army of 6,000 and landed in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant name Robert Morris as superintenent of finance. His associate was a jewish refugee named Haym Salomon from Poland.
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In January of 1781 at Cowpens, South Carolina the British expected to outnumber the Americans, but actually surrendered.
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Greene had written to Lafayette for him to help the American forces.
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The American troops were finally paid in gold coins by Morris and Salomon.
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Colonel William Fontaine of the Virginia militia stood with American and French armieslining a road near Yorktown, Virginia. The French and American armies surrounded the British on land and by sea, forcing General Cornwallis to surrender. On the 19th they met and accepted the British's surrenderence.
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Peace is being taled about in
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In September of 1783, delegates signed the Treaty of Paris. This gave the United States it's Independence. The United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to the Florida border.
