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French was secretly sending weapons to the Patriots.
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The British retreated from Boston moving the theater of war to the middle states.
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In the summer of 1776, General William Howe and his brother Admiral Richard Howe joined forces on Staten Island and sailed into New York with 32,000 British soldiers.
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Washington and his outnumbered army retreated the battle for New York.
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By the late fall of 1776, the British had pushed Washingtons army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
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Christmas of 1776, Washington led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the Delaware River.
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The terms of Washingtons mens enlistment were due to end.
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The American's faced a victory against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton.
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In the spring of 1777, General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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Massed American troops finally surrounded General Burgouyne at Saratoga where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates.
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In the winter of 177-1778, Valley Forge served as the site of the continental army's camp site.
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The French recognized American independence and signed an alliance with the Americans.
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American troops began an amazing transfomation.
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The British changed their military strategy & began to shift their operations to the south.
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A royal governor once again commanded Georgia.
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Marquis de Lafayette joined Washingtons staff lobbied forFrench reinforcements in France and led a comand in Virginia in the last years of the war.
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A british expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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General Henry clinton sailed south with 8,500 men.
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Captured Charles Town, South Carolina & marched 5,500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war.
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Cornwallis's army smahed American forces at Camden, South Carolina.
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A French army of 6,000 had landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left the city. American & French armies joined forces & attacked British forces at yorktown.
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The British expected the outnumbered Americans to flee but the continental army fought back and forced the redcoats to surrender.
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Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris as superintendant of finance
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Robert Morris and Haym Salmon borrowed on their personal credit to raise money to provide salaries for the continental army. Due to their efforts, the troops were finally paid in specie or gold coin.
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With Cornwallis's troops outnumbered, he raised the white flag to accept the British surrender.
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William Fortain stood with the American and French armies lining a road near Yorktown, Virginia to witness the formal British surrender.
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Washington, French generals & their troops assembled to accept the British surrender.
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Greene wrote a letter to Lafayette asking himfor help.
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The delegates signed the Treaty of Pris, which confirmed U.S independence & set the boundaries of the new nation.
