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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.
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In the early 1776, the French secretly sent weapons to the Patriots.
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The British had previously retreated. Moved the ater of war to the Middle states.
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This was in the summer of 1776, the largest British expenditionary force assembled 32,000 soliders. Americans called these troops Hessians.
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This battle took place in New York, It was an American retreat, with lots of losses.
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On August 27,1776 Micheal Graham, a continental army volunteer described the chaotic withdrawl.
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On December 31st fewer then 8,000 men remained under Washington's command. The terms of their enlistment ended on this date.
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On Christmas night Washington risked everything, he faced a fierce and cold storm with 2,400 men in small rowboats across the Delaware River.
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The American Revolution ended, the Americans had won. Many years before indepths of Valley Forge.
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Albigense Waldo worked as a surgeon at Valley Forge outside Philadelphia; served as the site of the Continental army's camp.
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In the spring of 1777, General Howe began his campaign to seize the American captail at Philadelphia.
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On October 17,1777 massed American troops finally surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates.
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In February 1778, the French recongized American Independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation, with the Americans.
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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.
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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.
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In 1778, a Britisih expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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Marquis de Lafayette offered his assistance and joined Washington at Valley Forge, lobbied for France reinforcements and led a command in Virginia.
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In Spring, a royal governor once again had commanded Georgia.
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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.
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5,500 American soldiers marched off as prisoners of war. Clinton left for New York leaving Cornwllis to command the British forces in south.
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French army of 6,000 landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left the city to focus on the south.
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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.
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Daniel Morgan's colonial forces defeated a crack British regiment under colonel Tarleton.
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Greene wrote a letter to Lafayette, and asked for help, because they were in desperate need of supplies and advice.
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The Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris, a superintendent of finance.
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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.
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Due to the efforts of Morris and Slomon, the troops were finally pain in specie, or gold coins.
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His troops outnumbered by more then two to one and exhausted from constant shelling, Cornwallis raised the white flag to surrender.
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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,
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Truimphant Washington, the French generals and troops assembled to accept the British surrender.
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Peace talking had begun in Paris. There had been four representatives. They were the United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain.
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The delegates signed The Treaty of Paris, and confirmed U.S independence, and set boundaries of the new nation.
