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French starts giving America a helping hand and gives them guns.
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The British retreat from Boston and they decide to seize New York
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Two Brothers General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe join forces and sailed to New York with the largest British force of 32,000
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The battle of New York ended in August with Americans running across the Delware River like cowards.
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Wadhington had only 8,000 man and he needed a victory to keep his men from going home.
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Washington wanted to risk everything on one bold strike on Christmas night. He crossed the Delware river and and captured 918 and killed 30.
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America wins an other battle in Princeton against 1,200 Redcoats.
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From 1777-1778, Washington and his men have a camp outside Philadelphia but they have to battle through snow storms and the freezing weather
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General Howe takes the American Capital Philadelphia and forces the continetal army out of the city.
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America makes General Burgoyne surrender at Saratoga which was a very big win.
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French signs an alliance with America
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Freidrich von Steuben volunteered his service to General Washington and he taught soldiers how to fight and get better
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British move south after there lost at Saratoga.
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British easily took savannah in Georgia.
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The royal governor is back in Georgia
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Marquis de Lafayette joined Washington staff and bore the misery of Valley Forge.
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Charles Conwalis replaced Howe in New York.
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Thousands of African Americans join to fight against the British.
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British have there best victory and captured south Carolina.
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French Army of 6,000 land in Newport, Rhode Island. and went to help the Americans in the south.
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Cornwallis wins another battle at Camden, South Caralina
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Congress appointed a rich merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance.
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They fought at Cowpens, South Carolina and the British expected they will out numbered Americans, but America fought back and made them surrender.
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Cornwallis is upset at his recent lost so he attack Greene at Guilford Court House.
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Greene writes a letter to Lafayette asking for help.
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Troops start getting gold coin.
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With troops outnumbered by 2 to 1 and exhausted from constant shelling Cornwallis finnaly raised the white flag.
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British surrender near Yorktown and patriots win it all.
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A triumphant Washington the french generals and their troops assembled to accept the British surrender.
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The British established in the south.
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signed Treaty of Paris which confirmed U.S indepence and set the boundries of new nation.