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Early Defeats
-British capture all major colonialcities
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Charleston
-Washington’s army in retreat andmany desert
Patriot Victories
-a few victories helped keepmorale up
-Dec. 1776 at Trenton
Jan. 1777 at Princeton
Turning Point
-large British force defeated atSaratoga Oct. 1777
-kept British near the coastline
-helped colonists get Frenchhelp in the war effort
-turning point of the war
Valley Forge
-camp site of Washington’sarmy during winter of 1777-78.
-British forces occupied nearbycities
-many soldiers died of cold andstarvation
-Congress struggled to gainsupplies for the army
-lack of central gov’t
Civilian Life
-inflation
-shortage of goods
-women took over the work ofmen
-some women helped the militaryeffort
Foreign Help
-foreign military leaders offeredprofessional training for thearmy
-Friedrich von Steuben
Prussian officer who trainedpatriot soldiers
-Marquis de Lafayette
led volunteer army from France
Southern Campaign
-British strategy changed tosplitting the colonies
-Charleston
captured by Cornwallis
-Kings Mtn
Patriot
-Cowpens
Patriot
War’s End
-Guilford Courthouse
costly British victory
-retreat to Yorktown
-surrounded by French andAmericans
-Cornwallis surrenders Oct, 1781
Treaty of Paris
-Treaty of Paris 1783
-recognized U.S. independence
-set boundaries to the Mississippi
-some provisions of the treaty willlead to trouble later
Symbol to the World
-liberty
-freedom
-equality
-opportunity
-belief in a greater cause
-set a precedent for theAmerican future