Ch 6 Revolutionary War

Glory at Sea• Britain used navy to patrol American waterways

• Kept ally ships from entering/leaving American harbors• Preventing supplies/reinforcements from reaching

Continental Army

John Paul Jones

• Privateers making better efforts at sea than American warships ordered by Continental Congress

• John Paul Jones• American naval officer known for raiding British ports• Obtained ship from B Franklin named Bonhomme Richard• Sailed to Britain and attacked• Victorious even though ship sank

Guerilla Warfare

• Small bands of patriot soldiers suddenly appear attack and disappear.

• Leader of this unique tactic was Francis Marion also known as “Swamp Fox”.

 

Swamp Fox

Vocabulary:

• blockade

• privateer

• guerrilla warfare

• left without permission

• privately owned merchant ships equipped with weapons

• a hit and run technique of fighting

Yorktown

Cornwallis

• Washington north of NY City with troops

• French aid trapped by British fleet off coast in Newport

• Marquis de Lafayette kept Cornwallis contained on the Yorktown peninsula

• August of 1781• second fleet of

French ships under the Admiral Francoise de Grasse heading to Chesapeake Bay instead of NY

• Washington secretly changes plans to go to Yorktown, VA

Secret Strategy of 3 Groups

• de La Fayette-French Commander with Patriot soldiers in Yorktown

• Rochambeau- French commander with French American army in Newport

• De Grasse – French Naval commander

• The secret was kept• Not even the soldiers knew what was going on• Cornwallis surrounded on land and by sea• On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered

Battle of Yorktown

Cornwallis got CORNERED!!

American Revolution is Over!!!!

American’s Won!!!

Independence• Treaty of Paris signed on Sept 3, 1783

– B Franklin, John Adams, Jon Jay represented the US in working and approving preliminary treaty

• Britain recognized US as an independent nation.

• Withdrawal of British troops

• The right to fish in water off the coast of Canada

• America stretched from Atlantic to Mississippi and Florida to Canada

• Property taken from loyalists would be returned• British merchants could still collect debts owed by

Americans

Washington’s FarwellDec 4,1783

• All British troops now out of NY City• G Washington gave up command• “Having finished the work assigned me I retire…

and take my leave of all the employments of public life”

• He returned home to Mount Vernon in time for Christmas

Started War?

Lexington and Concord

Turning Point

Saratoga

Last Battle

Yorktown

Vocabulary:

• ratified• ambush

• approved

• a surprise attack