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the french have been sending weapons to the Patriots since early 1776
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British had previously retreated from Boston in March 1776 moving the theatre of war to the middle states.
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two brothers, General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe, joined forces on staten island and sailed into New York harbor, with the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled.
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Michael Graham a continental army volunteer, described the chaotic with drawal
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British had pushed Washington's army across the Delaware river
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Washington resolved to risk everything on one bold stroke out for Christmas night, he lied 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-chocked Delaware River. Surprise attack, Americans killed 30 of Hessians, took 918 Captives and six Hessian cannons
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Fewer than eight thousand men remained under Washington's command and the terms of their enlistment were due to end on Dec. 31
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Americans were rallied by another destonishing victory against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton.
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Albigense Walds worked as a surgion at valley forge outside PA, which served as the site of the continental Army's camp.
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Muddy Fields dried out, General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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Massed Americans troops finally surrounded Burgoyne to Saragota, where he surrendered hit battered army to general gates.
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the French recognized American independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation with the Americans
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in the mist of the frozen winter of Valley Forge. american troops began an amazing transformation. Frildrich von steuben volunteered his services to General Washington and want to teach the soldiers to be better.
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after their devastating defeat at Saratoga, the British changed their military strategy; in the summer of 1778 they began the shift their operations to the south
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A British expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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the young lafayette joined Washington's staff and bore the misery of Valled 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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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 6,000had 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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wrote a letter to lafeyette asking for help.
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the congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance. Morris and Solomon begged and borrowed on thier personal credit to raise money to provide salaries for the continental Army.
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the troops were finally paid in specie and gold coins
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With his troops out numbered by the more than two to one and exhausted from the constant shelling, cornwallis finally raised the white flag of surrender
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Colonial 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
