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French recognized american independene and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation with the americans.
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The french had secretly sent weapons to the patriots
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British retreat from Boston, moving theater war to the middle states
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General William Howe an admiral richard how joined forces on staten island and sailed into New York harbor
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Washington led 2,400 men across the delaware river, in a suprise attack the american won the battle of trenton
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Terms of enlistment were due to end on this date.
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American's won another victory at princeton
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General Howe began his campaign to seize the american capital at philly
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Howe's troops sailed from NY to the head of chesapeake bay an landed near the capital
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American troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga where he surrendered his army to General Gates
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Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside Philly, which served as the site of Continental army's camp
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In the midst of the frozen winter at Valley Forge, american troops began an amazing transformation
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British began to shift their operations to the south
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British expedition easily took Savannah,Georgia
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Lafayette joined Washington staff, lobbied for french renforcements in France, led a command in Virginia.
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Royal governor once again commanded Georgia
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General Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men
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British capture Charles town, South Carolina, marched 5,500 american soldiers off as prisoners of war
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Cornwalls army smahsed forces in Camden,South Carolina and established forts across the state
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Congress appointed a rich philly merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance
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Continental army gets doubted by british but fights back and makes them surrender at Cowpens,South Carolina
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Cornwallis attacked Greene, won the war but it cost him a fourth of his troops
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Green writes a letter to Lafayette, asking him for help
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Troops were finally paid in specie, or gold coins
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Cornwallis raised the white flag of surrender at yorktown
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Colonel William Fontaine of the Virginia milita stood with the american and french armies lining a road near yorktown
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Washington, French generals and their troops assembled to accept the british surrender
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peace talks begin in Paris
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Delegates sign treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
