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Laura Demytrk- Revolutionary War Timeline

By laurademy

  • French secretly sends weapons to Patriots

  • British retreat from Boston

  • General William and Admiral Richard Howe joined forces on Staten Island and Sailed into New York

    (Summer of 1776)

  • The battle for New York ended

  • Americans retreated from New York because they were outnumbered by the British.

  • George Washinton led 2,400 men across the Delaware River

    George Washinton led 2,400 men across the Delaware River

  • Patriots marched into Trenton, NJ and won the Battle of Trenton

  • Washington's enlistment was due to end

  • The Americans had another victory at the Battle of Princeton

  • General Howe begain his campaign to seize the American Capital at Philadelphia

  • American troops defeated General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga

    American troops defeated General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga

  • Winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge. Americans lost a lot of supplies and troop members

  • The French recognized American Independence and created a new Alliance with the Americans

  • American troops began military transformation at Valley Forge.

  • British change strategy and focus on moving south

  • British expedition took Savannah, Georgia

  • Royal governor of Britain commanded Georgia again.

  • Lafayette joing Valley Forge and led a command in Virginia for the last years of the war

  • Lafayette joing Valley Forge and led a command in Virginia for the last years of the war

  • British were victorious at Charlestown, South Carolina and took 5500 American soldiers as prisoners.

  • Cornwallis's army defeated American forces at Camden, South Carolina.

  • British established forts across the state of South Carolina

  • General Henry Clinton sailed south from NewYork with Charles Cornwallis

  • French army of 6000 landed in New Port, Rhode Island after British left to south

  • British and American forces met at the Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina. Americans won.

  • General Nathaniel Greene wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for help.

  • The Superintendent of Finance was appointed to Robert Moriss by Congress

  • Troops were finally paid in gold coin

  • Cornwallis raised the white flag of surrender

  • Virginia militia witnessed formal British surrender at Yorktown.

  • Washinton and the French Generals assembled troops to accept British surrender

  • Delegates signed the Treaty of Paris that confirmed United States independence

    Delegates signed the Treaty of Paris that confirmed United States independence