Revolutionary War Battles Flashcards
Saratoga
Gen. Burgoyne's plan -got off England from other countries -surrounding Americans from Albany, NY with three armies -long time training -other three armies never made it -Americans attack a trade a rout Turning point French and Spanish help America
Trenton and Princeton
- New Jersey
- Washington was about to loose the soldiers on December 31-won to keep them
- sneak across the Delaware river
- walk to Trenton
- surprise sleeping Hessians
- not turning point
- American victory
- game supplies
- new recruits
- proved Washington was good
Valley Forge
- Outside of Pennsylvania
- trained with Baron
- not a battle
- British occupied Philly
- lack of food supplies and shelter
- deaths from disease starvation and exposure
Battle of Kings Mountain
- Patriot militia versus Tories
- moral boost for patriots
- afterwards, Carolinans no longer supported British
- went to surrender of Yorktown
Yorktown
- 1781
- Chesapeake Bay
- French block British warships
- Washington and french invaded from North
- Cornwall’s trapped
- Cornwall’s surrenders
Significance of Yorktown
Last major battle of war
American stratagies
Occupy coastal cities
offense
recruit Native Americans and slaves
supplies from southern
Fighting in south different than in north
Gorilla warfare
Violent
American Allies
French and Spain
American strengths
Knowledge of land
help from Netherlands and Spain
military leader
heart
American weaknesses
Little training army plagued by shortage taxes low money value men shortage supply loss
British strengths
Lots of men recruited Americans well-trained lots of experience well supplied professional army
British weaknesses
Costly sending tactics unhappy taxpayers poor leadership changing plans far distance citizens don't care about the war
Treaty of Paris
1783
Set boundaries between Americans and Indian
Effects of war
Lots of deaths broke War debt loyalist lost their property 13 separate countries independence
Baron Von Steuben
Gen. from Prussia
trained soldiers
simple command
Hessians
Merchants from Prussia hired by British
Thomas Paine
wrote: commonsense, American crisis to motivate
Francis Marion
Swampfox
guerrilla warfare
Marquis de Lafayette
French nobles who commanded division in Continental Army
George Rogers Clark
“Washington of west”
help claim western from frontier of US
Benedict Arnold
American officer
hero at Saratoga who became a trader to US
Ben Franklin
Diplomat to France
help to convince king of France to help Americans in war
George Washington
Commander of the Continental Army
