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They hoped to gather up the loyalists and regain the colonies to slowly fight back up north.
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Since early 1776, The French secretly sent weapons to Americans after the British victory in The French And Indan War.
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The war was moved to the middle states when the British retreated from Boston.
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They joined together on staten isalnd & sailed to the New York Harbor with the largest British Force ever.
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ended with American retreat because of many losses.
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The British pushed Washington's army across the Delaware river into Pennsylvania.
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Through a storm, Wasington led 2,400 men in rowboats across the Delaware river to surprise attack the Hassians. It was a great victory for the patriots.
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Less than 8,000 men where still under Waschinton's command and their enlistment was due.
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He sails his troops from NY to the head of Chesapeake Bay & landed near the capital in late August. Washington fails to block the redcoats so the British captured Philadelphia.
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A continental army volunteer described the harsh withdrawl.
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Burgoyne surrenders his army to General Gates after being being surrounded by American Troops at Saratoga.
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During the winter of 1777, Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon outside of Philadelphia at Valley Forge, the site of the Continental Army camp.
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The French recognize American independence and sign allegience with them.
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He voulunteered to help George Washington and taught soldiers to stand at attention, field execute maneuvers,fire and reload quickly & wield bayonets.
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He asked for French reinforcements.
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Clinton left Cornwallis to command British Forces in the south and conquer south and north Carolina.
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Sailed South with 8,500 men.
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Cornwallis Army smashed American forces at Camden, South Carolina and made many forces across the state within a few months.
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Nathaneal Greene was sent by George Washington to march south and harrass Cornwallis as his soldiers retreated.
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When the forces met, The British clearly outnumbered the Americans but the smaller army fought back and the redcoats were forced to surrender.
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Greene's troops won the fight but he was worried about the South. so he sent a letter to Lafayette asking for help.
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After asking many sources, Robert Morris & his partner finally raised money and on September 8 of 1781, the american soldiers got paid in specie, or gold coins.
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His Troops were outnumbered drastically.
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Colonel Williams Fontaine of the Virginian Militia, stood along side the American and French troops near Yorktown, VA to watch the British surrender.
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They watch the British as they surrender.
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Congress assigned Robert Morris, a rich Philladelphian Merchant as superintendent of finance.
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In Paris, repreesentatives of the US, Great Britain, French, and spain got together. Britain hoped to disregaurd Americas full Independence. While the French supported it however, they feared the US would become too powerful. And Spain wanted the Appalachian Mountains and Missisissippi River.
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Delagates signed the Treaty Of Paris, giving the US full independence. And it now streched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and ran from the Canadian border all the way down to our present day Florida.
