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Still after the French and Indian War the French secretly sent weapons to the Patriots
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British retreated from Boston, moving the war to the middle states
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Brothers joined forces on Staten Island and sailed into NY
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A Continental Army volunteer, Micheal Graham described the chaotic withdrawal
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Washington led a 2,400 men across the Delaware river in many tiny row boats
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Washington marched 9 miles in sleet and snow to Trenton, New Jersey
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8,000 men remained under Washington's control; their contract was due to end December 31
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In the spring of 1777 General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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American troops surrounded Saratoga, where he surrender his battered army to General Gates. This then changed the British ' war strategy
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The colonist took a win against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton
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Worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside Philidelphia, which served as the site of the continental army's camp
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A Prussian captain and drill master Friedrich von Steuben voulenteer to turn "regular solders out of country bumpkins"
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The French recognized the Americans independence and signed an alliance with the Americans in February 1778. It stated that French was not to make peace with Brian until it also recognized it's independence.
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British took diction of Savannah, Georgia
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The royal government once again commanded Georgia
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Lafayette joined Washington's staff , he lobbied z for French reinforcements in France , he led command in Virginia in the last year's of the war
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General Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men
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British captured Charlestown, South Carolina. Marched 5,500 American solders as prisoners of war.
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French army of 6,000 had landed in Newport, Rhode Island, after the British left the city to focus on the south. Lafayette suggested that the American and french armies join forces with the two other French fleets and attack the British stationed in Yorktown
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The British expected the out numbered Americans to flee; but continental army fought back and forced redcoats to surrender
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Nathanael Green wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for help
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Cornwallis smashed American forces at Camden, South Carolina
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American troops were paid in spice or in gold coins
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A Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris and his associate Haym Salomon . They both begged and borrows on their personal credit to help support he salaries of solders in the Continental Army
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With outnumbered troops at almost 2:1, Cornwallis finally raised the white flag in surrender
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Virginia Malitia stood with the French armies near Yorktown to see the British surrender
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Washington, the French generals and their troops assembled to accept the British' s surrender
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In November 1781, British established forts across the state
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Delete met to sign the Treaty of Paris which stated the Americans independence and set the boundaries of the new nation . The United states officially had from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to the Florida border
