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The French were secretly sending weapons to the Patriots.
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The British retreated from Boston and moved the theater of war to the Middle states.
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General Wiliam Howe and Admiral Richard Howe sailed together in to the New York harbor with a large British force.
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The battle for New York ended. The Americans had so many losses, they retreated.
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The British pushed Washington's army across the Delaware River and into Pennsylvania.
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George Washingtion led 2,400 men in rowboats across the ice-filled Delaware River to attempt to come back from the many losses they were experiencing. They won.
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Washington's men marched nine miles through snow to reach Trenton, New Jersey to fight Hessians.
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George Washington's terms of his men's enlistment was due and he needed to do anything to get his troops a victory to keep them from leaving and going home.
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The Americans had a victory against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton.
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General Howe began a campaign to end the American capital at Philedelphia, Pennsylvannia.
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General Howe's troops sailed from New York to the Chesapeake Bay and then landed near the capital.
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Burgoyne surrendered his battered army to General Gates at Saratoga.
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During this time, a camspite called Valley Forger was created for the Continental Army.
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The French signed a treaty of cooperation with the Americans and recognized the Americans independence.
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The French started to teach the American troops better ways to fight at war. This was an amazing transformation for the troops that took place at Valley Forge.
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The British changed their military strategy, they began to shift their operations to the South for loyalist support and to reclaim their former colonies.
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A British expedition took Savannah, Georgia easily.
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A royal governer commanded Georgia once again.
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A military leader named Marquis de Lafayette joined the American troops at Valley Forge, pushed for reinforcements for France, and led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war.
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Cornwallis succeeded.
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The British captured Charles Town, South Carolina and marched 5,500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war. Their capturing of Charles Town was their greatest victory of the war.
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General Henry Clinton and general Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8,500 men.
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A French army landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left to go to the South. The 6,000 French men had just missed their enemies.
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Cornwallis' army smashed American forces at Camden, South Carolina. Within three months, the British had many forts across the state.
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The forces met at Cowens, South Carolina. The British thought that since the Americans were outnumbered they would flee but the Continental Army fought back and forced the British to surrender.
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Cornwallis was mad that his troops were defeated by the Americans so he attacked Greene at the Guilford Court House in North Carolina. Cornwallis won but many of his men were killed.
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Greene knew he weakened the British but he was still worried about the fight for the South so he wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for his help.
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The Congress appointed a rich Philedelphia merchant, Robert Morris as the superintendent of finance.
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Troops were finally paid in gold coin called specie thanks to Morris and Salomon's efforts.
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The American and French troops outnumbered the British by almost two to one and Cornwallis raised the white flag of surrender.
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Colonel William Fontaine and the American and French armies lined up in Yorktown, Virginia to watch the formal British surrender.
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Washing and the French generals and their troops were ready to accept the fact that the British surrendered.
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Talks of peace between the enemies began.
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The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris. This treaty confirmed the U.S. Independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
