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French secretly sent weapons to the patriots.
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The British retreat from Boston to the Middle states. As part of a plan to isolate New England and seize NYC.
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General William How's and Admiral Richard Hope joined Staten Island and sailed to NY with the largest British expeditionary. Along with German mercenaries, also known as Hessians.
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Washington rallies 23,000 men in NY to fight the British, but they are outnumbered, untrained and end up retreating . Leading to a lost.
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On Christmas Washington leads 2,400 men across the Delaware River to Trenton. Where they surprise the Hessian/British in an attack. They kill 30,take 918 captive and take6 Hessians cannons.
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Albigene Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside of Philadelphia. It served as the site of the Continental Army's camp in the winter.
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General How's started a campaign to seize Philadelphia. His troops sailed to Chesapeake Bay.
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The British landed near Philadelphia, glad the city & captured it.
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The British had pushed Washingtons army across the Delaware river into Pen.
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The Americans had a victory against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton.
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American troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrenders to General Gates.
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The victory of Saratoga lead the French to trust in the American army, and agree to support them. They sign an allience, or treat of cooperation.
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Friedrich,a Prussian captain volunteers to help Washington. He teaches the troop to stand at attention, execute feuild maneuvers,fire and relaod quickly, and weild bayonets.
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The British began to shift their operations to the South, in hope of rallying Loyalists.
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Congress was finally able to pay the troops with specie,or gold coins.
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The British easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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A royal governor took control of Georgia.
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Marquis De Lafayette joined Washington.
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The British capture Charles Town,South Carolina and marched 5,500 American soldiers as war prisoners.
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Cornwallis's army smashed American forces at Camden, South Carolina.
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The British establish forts across the state.
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General Henry Clinton with Cornwallis sailed South with 8,500 men.
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A french army of 6,000 landed in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Daniel Morgan and Cornwallis forces met at Cowpens,SC. The British thought they would out number them but the continental army forced them to surrender.
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Cornwallis attacks Greene at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. Cornwallis wins but losses a lot of men.
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Lafayette writes a letter asking for help for the south, because the British are taking over them.
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Lafayette's troops outnumbered the British and they surrendered.
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George Washington assembledthe French general's, and their troops to accept the British surrender.
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The delegates sighned the treaty of paris, which confirmed U. S. Independence and set boundaries of the new nation.
