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French began to secretly send weapons to Patriots.
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British retreat from Boston, moving the war to the middle states.
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General William Howe and Admiral Richard Howe, brothers, joined forces in Staten Island and sailed into the New York Harbor with the largest British expeditionary force ever - 32,000 soldiers, including German mercenaries, or Hessians.
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British pushed Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.
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Washington led 2,400 men in rowboats across the Delaware River to Trenton, New Jersey, which held a large amount of Hessians. The army arrived the next day for the Battle of Trenton.
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Americans win against 1,200 British at Princeton, New Jersey
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Washington marches to Morristown, New Jersey
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Genera Howe seizes New York
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Americans retreat from the battle for New York, suffering heavy losses.
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American troops surround General John Burgoyne's army, forcing them to surrender to General Horatio Gates at Saratoga.
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Washington's Continental Army slept in man-made huts with little food and clothing outside of Philadelphia at Valley Forge.
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French recognized American independence and signed treaty with Americans, saying that they won't make peace with Britain until they recognized American independence.
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Friedrich von Steuben volunteers to help teach colonial soldiers to stand at attention, execute field maneuvers, fire and reload quickly and wield bayonets.
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Marquis de Lafayette joined Washington's staff, helped receive French reinforcements, and led a command in Virginia.
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British shifted towards the South and hoped to gain Loyalist support, reclaim former British colonies, and then work their way back north.
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British expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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Royal governor commanded Georgia once again.
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French army of about 6,000 lands in Newport, Rhode Island.
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General Henry Clinton and General Charles Cornwallis sail south and help the British capture Charles Town, South Carolina.
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Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis march 5,500 American soldiers as prisoners of war
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Charles Cornwallis's army defeats forces in South Carolina.
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British establish forts across South Carolina.
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General Daniel Morgan leads British to Cowpens, South Carolina where the Continental Army fights and wins.
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Congress appointed Robert Morris as superintendent of finance and his associate Haym Salomon. Together, they raised money for the Continental Army.
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Charles Cornwallis attacks General Nathaniel Greene at Guilford Court House, North Carolina where Cornwallis wins, but suffers major losses.
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American troops are finally paid with gold coins.
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About 17,000 French and American troops surrounded the British at the Yorktown Peninsula.
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British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia after the Battle of Yorktown.
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Representatives from United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain on join in Paris to negotiate a peace treaty.
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Delegates signed the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of a new nation.
