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The next morning
By 8' oclock the next morning, the men had marched nine miles through the snow to get to Trenton, New Jersey. This night the Hessians got drunk and the Americans used a surprise attack and killed 30 of the enemies, took 918 captives, and six Hessian cannons. -
Secret transportation
In the early 1776, the French secretly sent weapons to the Patriots. -
Retreated from Bosston
The British had previously retreated. Moved the ater of war to the Middle states. -
The British assemble
This was in the summer of 1776, the largest British expenditionary force assembled 32,000 soliders. Americans called these troops Hessians. -
Battle of New York
This battle took place in New York, It was an American retreat, with lots of losses. -
Micheal Graham
On August 27,1776 Micheal Graham, a continental army volunteer described the chaotic withdrawl. -
Men of the troops
On December 31st fewer then 8,000 men remained under Washington's command. The terms of their enlistment ended on this date. -
Christmas night
On Christmas night Washington risked everything, he faced a fierce and cold storm with 2,400 men in small rowboats across the Delaware River. -
Valley Forge winter 1777-1778
The American Revolution ended, the Americans had won. Many years before indepths of Valley Forge. -
Winter of 1777-1778
Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside Philadelphia; served as the site of the Continental army's camp. -
Campaign to seize the captail
In the spring of 1777, General Howe began his campaign to seize the American captail at Philadelphia. -
Surrounded Burygoyne
On October 17,1777 massed American troops finally surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates. -
French decided to create an alliance with the Americans.
In February 1778, the French recongized American Independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation, with the Americans. -
Fredrich von Steuben
In the winter at Valley Forge, American troops began transformation. Fredrich von Steuben, Prussian captain and a drill master volunteered his works to General Washington. He taught the soliders alot of techniques. -
British changes military strategies
After the defeat at Saratoga, British changed their military strategy, so in the summer they began to shift their operations to the south. Later on, they slowly fight their way back north. -
Expedition
In 1778, a Britisih expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia. -
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette offered his assistance and joined Washington at Valley Forge, lobbied for France reinforcements and led a command in Virginia. -
Commanding Georgia
In Spring, a royal governor once again had commanded Georgia. -
Redcoats succeeding and retreating
For most of 1780 Cornwallis succeeded. As redocats succeed they were joined by African Americans who escaped and won freedom. Cornwallis's army smashed American forces, within three months the British established forts. Patriot bands attacked them and cut their communication lines. Then the redcoats retreated. -
Cornwallis in command
5,500 American soldiers marched off as prisoners of war. Clinton left for New York leaving Cornwllis to command the British forces in south. -
Land in Rhode Isalnd
French army of 6,000 landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left the city to focus on the south. -
They fought back
Forces met at Cowpens, South Carolina. The British thought the Americans would flee, but the Continental army fought back, and forced the redcoats to surrender. -
Battle of Cowpens
Daniel Morgan's colonial forces defeated a crack British regiment under colonel Tarleton. -
Greene wrote a letter
Greene wrote a letter to Lafayette, and asked for help, because they were in desperate need of supplies and advice. -
Robert Morris
The Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris, a superintendent of finance. -
British Losses in 1781
Washington ordered Nathanel Greene his ablest general to head south and to harrass Cornwallis, Greene divided it into two groups, they sent 600 soliders under the command of General Daniel Morgan to South Carolina, and then Cornwallis sent Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and the troops to Morgan's soliders. -
Troops success pays off
Due to the efforts of Morris and Slomon, the troops were finally pain in specie, or gold coins. -
Cornwallis surrenders
His troops outnumbered by more then two to one and exhausted from constant shelling, Cornwallis raised the white flag to surrender. -
american and French armines lining
On the afternoon of October 19. 1781, Colonel William Fontaine of the Virginia Militia stood with the American and the French armies lining a road near Yorktown, Virginia, -
Washington and troops assemble
Truimphant Washington, the French generals and troops assembled to accept the British surrender. -
Peace talks in Paris
Peace talking had begun in Paris. There had been four representatives. They were the United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain. -
Treaty of Paris
The delegates signed The Treaty of Paris, and confirmed U.S independence, and set boundaries of the new nation.
