“Reading is to the mind what

exercise is to the body.”

Joseph Addison

8.4 The End of the War

Part III

The Return of

the Rebel

I. The Battle of Monmouth• June 28, 1778• Monmouth, New Jersey• Washington VS. Clinton• Clinton was performing a structured retreat to Sandy Hook Beach to

load his men on ships• Washington attacked British Rear Guard• LONGEST BATTLE OF WAR

                                             

                                                                                  

                              

II. The War Moves South

See Map-Page 223

III. Victory in the West

• George Rogers Clark

• Bernardo de Galvez

V. Victory at Yorktown• Battle that ended the Revolutionary

War• October 7, 1781• Yorktown, Virginia• Washington VS. Cornwallis• American and French troops and

French warships trap the British. Cornwallis surrendered! “The World Turned Upside Down”

IV. The Treaty of Paris• September 3, 1783• Treaty is signed.• Britain recognizes Americans

as independent country.• Americans gain land from

Appalachians to Mississippi.