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Once the Americans won the battle, the French secretly sent them weapons in the early 1776
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The British left boston and went to the middle states
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Brothers General William and admiral Richard Howe joined forces on Staten Island and sailed to New York harbor with the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled
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After the Americans lost the battle at New York, Michael graham, a continental army volunteer, described the chaotic withdrawal
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Less than 8000 men were left with Washington and the terms of their enlistment ended on December 3rd, 1776
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On Christmas night of 1776 Washington would create a sneak attack on the British army
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General Howe began his campaign to seize the American capital of Philadelphia
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Burgoyne surrendered his army to general gates at Saratoga when American troops surrounded them
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Several years before the American revolution was won , they had an experience at valley forge in the winter of 1777-1778
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While there stay at valley forge, the surgeon, abigence Waldo served at the site of the continental Army's camp
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The French agreed to become the Americans allies after they noticed their skill
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The Americans began an amazing transformation when Fredrick Von Steuben offered his assistance to train the men to be soldiers
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After the British lost at Saratoga they changed their path and went towards the south
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The British easily took savannah , Georgia
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The royal governed once again took control of Georgia
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The young 20 year old Lafayette also joined washingtons staff and even commanded in Virginia in the last years of year
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General Henry Clinton replaced General Howe and along side with him was General Charles Cornwallis sailed south
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In May the British took the victory while capturing Charles town , South Carolina
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For most of 1780 Cornwallis succeeded the most, not to mention that African Americans were escaping patriot slave owners to join the British at war to gain freedom
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The French army landed in Newport, Rhode Island and meet up with the Americans which then became allies
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During the war the belief in the equality of all people was established but was only applied to men
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At the battle at South Carolina the British suspected the outnumbered Americans would leave but they stayed and fought back which led the redcoats to surrender
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Greene had weakened the redcoats but that didn't mean they still weren't capable of fighting back. He was worried about the fight for the south and wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for help
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The troops finally got paid in specie or gold coins thanks to Morris and salmon
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At the battle of Yorkshire General Cornwallis finally surrendered and raised his white flag
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Colonial William Fontaine of the Virginia militia stood with the American and French armies lining a road near Yorktown, Virginia, on the afternoon of October 19, 1781, to witness the formal British surrender
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The American and French generals all got together to accept the British surrender
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Representatives of four nations; American, Britain, Spain, and France. They all tried to figure something to work out for everyone's interest
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September 1783 was the time the treaty of Paris was signed allowing Americans there independence
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Many northern states around this time were outlawing slavery
