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Inflation
Money issued by the American government to pay the troops. In the revolutionary war, there wasn't enough gold to pay the American troops, so the temporary government which wasn't under England printed paper money which would be the currency of the new American nation. -
New York City
The British wanted to seize New York City. -
German Mercenaries
30,000 German soldiers hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution. -
Patriots/Loyalists
Patriots wanted in pendency and loyalists were against it. -
Morris & Salomon
Patriotic party known as "Sons of Liberty." This was a secret organization of American patriots that originated in Boston to protest the Stamp Act. -
Washington- Christmas night
During the American Revolution, Patriot General George Washington crosses the Delaware River with 5,400 troops, hoping to surprise a Hessian force. -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point in the Revolution, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British. -
Battle of Valley Forge
Valley Forge was where the American Continental Army made camp during the winter. -
Marquis De Safagette
In December, 1777, he went with Washington and the army into winter quarters at Valley Forge. -
Friedrich Von Steuben
Helped train the American Soilders in the Revolution. -
Savannah, Georgia
British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell and his force of between 2500 and 3600 troops, which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launch a surprise attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia. -
Charles town
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. -
Yorktown
The British general then chose to move the fight to Virginia. He led his army of 7,500 onto the peninsula between the James and York rivers and camped at Yorktown.
