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French secretly send weapons to patriots, french trusted American army. French bitter from defeat from French and Indian War.
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Brittish retreated from Boston, moving the war in the middle states. Brittish decided to seize New York.
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Washington railied 23,000 men to New Yorks defense. Troops untrained poor equipment. Americans retreat with heavy loss.
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Brittish push Washingtons army across Deleware river into Pennsylvania. Majority of men killed, 8000 men remained under Washingtons command
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Washington led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice choked Deleware river.
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8am the next morning men marched 9 miles through sleet and snow to get to Trenton, held by garrison of hessians. Then suprised attacked kelled many and kept 918 captive and stole 6 hessian cannons.
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railed by another astonishing victory against 1,200 brittish stationed in Princeton marches army into winter camp near morris town in northern New Jersey feeling coffident.
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General Howe began his campaign to seize American capital at Philadelphia.
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General Howe troops sailed from NY to head of Chesapeake bay, land near capital in late August. Continental Congress fled city while Washingtons troops unsucessfully tried blocking red coats neary by Brandywine creek. Brittish captured Philadelphia.
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Masked American troops finally surrounded burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates.
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French recognize American independence and sign alliance . France agrees to not make peace with Britain unless Britain also recognize American Independence.
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Brittish had devistating defeat in Saratoga, changed their millitary fighting style. in summer of 1778 they hopped to rally loyalists support, their former colonies in the region and then slowly fight back to the north.
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Brittish expedition easily took Savannah.
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young Lafayette joined Washingtons staff and bore missery of valley forge. Lobbied for French reinforcements and led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war.
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Royal governor once again commanded Georgia.
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General Henry had replaced Howe in N.Y with ambitious General Charles corn wall is, sailing south with 8,500 men, in their greatest victory at the war, capturing charlestown, south carolina, Marched 5000 AMerican soliders off as prisoners of war clinton then left for New York leaving corn wallis to command brittish forces in south and to conquer south and north carolina.
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Cornwallis succeded as red coats advanced joined by 1000s Africans Americans who escaped from Patriot slave owners.
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Cornwallis army smashed American forces at Camden, south carolina, establishing forts across states. Advancing through north carolina patriot bands attacked them, cutting brittish communication lines. This caused red coats to retreat to south carolina.
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Morgan and his men led brittish on rough chase country side, at cow pens, south carolina brittish expected out numbered Americans to flee, but continental army fought back and caused brittish to surrender.
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American troops began an amazing transformation. fredrich von steuben, a prussian captain and talented drill master, volunteering his services to general washington and went to work and made regular soliders out of country bumpkins. taught them to stand attention, execute feild maneuvers, fire and reload quickly, and yelled bayonets, with help of european military leaders, the raw continental army becoming an effective fighting force.
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angered by defeat cowpens, cornwallis attacked greene at Guilford court house, north carolina. Cornwallis won battle but victory cost him 1/4 of Histroops.
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Greene had weakened brittish, but worried about fight for south, so he wrote letters to Lafayette, asking for help.
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Troops finally get paid in gold coins from efforts of Morris and Solomon
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The american revolution has ended, coloniel William Fontaine of virginia militia stood with the American and french armies liking road near york town, to witness brittish surrendering.
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congress approaches rich philadelphia merchant robert morris a superintendant of finance- associate Itaym Solomon.
