Paul_Ziggy Timeline

By Paul_Ziggurat

  • French Indian War

    During the first year of war, the British experienced defeat after defeat.

  • Stmap Act

    Placed a tax on legal documents

  • Townshend

    Another attemp to tax colonies on land, paper, cloth, and tea

  • Decloration of Independance

    Defeated the British for the Indepoendence

  • Saratoga

    Intervention of the French caused the British to adopt a new military strategy

  • The British moved to the south

    They failed in the north.

  • British took Savannah, Georgia

    A month later, British established a royal government.

  • The war turned in the favor of the Americans

    The French joind the war, fighting with the Americans

  • The war went on for over one year.

    When the British lost at Yorktown, people knew independence had been won.

  • Cornwallis (British) moved troops to Yorktown, Virginia

  • Washington wanted his troops moved to Chesapeake Bay.

    He wanted to cut off British supplies from New York.