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The French sent weapons to the Patriots after they were defeated by the British.
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The British retreat from Boston as a way to move the theater of war to the Middle states.
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Admiral Richard Lowe and General William Howe sailed into the New York harbor and joined forces on Staten Island with the largest British force ever assembled.
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Washington's troops were outnumbered, therefore they retreated following tons of losses.
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Washington led 2,400 men across the Delaware River in small rowboats.
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The Americans came across a victory against 1,200 Britains stationed at Princeton.
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A majority of Washington's men were either being killed, captured, or deserted, so Washington desperately needed a victory for his men.
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Howe begins his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia.
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American troops surrounded Burgoyne in Saratoga where he surrendered his army to General Gates.
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The French noticed American independence and then signed a treaty of cooperation with the Americans.
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Captain Friedrich von Steuben taught the colonial soldiers maneuvers and ways for them to be better soldiers.
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After the British were defeated at Saratoga, they changed their strategies and shifted to the South.
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A British expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia.
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Lafayette joined Washington's staff and led a comman in Virgina in the last years of the war.
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A royal governor commanded Georgia once again.
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Clinton and Cornwallis sailed South with 8, 500 men.
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The British captured Charles Town, South Carolina and marched 5,500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war.
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Cornwallis commanded the British forces in the South and conquered South and North Carolina, he succeeded in most of his doings.
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Cornwallis' army brutally beat American forces at Camden, South Carolina.
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6,000 men of the French army landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left the city to focus on the South.
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Three months after Cornwallis' army destroyed American forces, the British had established forts across the states.
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The British expected the large amount of Americans to flee, but the Continental Army fought back.
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Cornwallis attacked Greene after he was angered by the defeat at Cowpens.
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After Greene's fight against the British weakened them, he was worried about the fight against the South. He sent Lafayette a letter asking for help against the South.
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The Congress appointed Robert Morris and him and his associate Haym Salomon borrowed and begged on their personal credit to raise money to provide salaries for the Continental Army.
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From the efforts of Morris and Salomon, the troops were finally paid in gold coin.
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Cornwallis' men were outnumbered and exhausted, so Cornwallis eventually raised the white flag.
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The French proudly stood as they watched the British surrender.
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Peace talks began.
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The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
