Chapter 9: The Aftermath

Question 1

Who suffered the highest casualties per capita?

Answer 1

Continental Army and North Carolina Continentals

Question 2

What were the benefits of Greene’s division of forces?

Answer 2

feed his men, move them independently which made it harder for the British to find them

Question 3

Why did Greene’s division of forces pose a major strategic problem for Cornwallis?

Answer 3

This caused problem for scattered British garrisons

Question 4

Lee’s Legion

Answer 4

military unit within the Continental Army

Question 5

What fell to effectively end British rule in interior Georgia?

Answer 5

Fort Cornwallis

Question 6

Who led “forlorn hope?”

Answer 6

Samuel Seldon (VA) and Issac Duval (MD)

Question 7

Eutaw Springs ranks as

Answer 7

one of the bloodiest engagements per capita in the entire Revolution

Question 8

What was Cornwallis’ most fateful decision of his military career?

Answer 8

invading VA and joining forces with Maj. Gen. William Phillips and Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold

Question 9

Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy

Answer 9

the heated correspondence between the two due to battle tension

Question 10

What ended the Revolutionary War?

Answer 10

Treaty of Paris