Revolutionary War Battles Flashcards
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Saratoga
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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
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Trenton and Princeton
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- 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
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Valley Forge
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- Outside of Pennsylvania
- trained with Baron
- not a battle
- British occupied Philly
- lack of food supplies and shelter
- deaths from disease starvation and exposure
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Battle of Kings Mountain
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- Patriot militia versus Tories
- moral boost for patriots
- afterwards, Carolinans no longer supported British
- went to surrender of Yorktown
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Yorktown
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- 1781
- Chesapeake Bay
- French block British warships
- Washington and french invaded from North
- Cornwall’s trapped
- Cornwall’s surrenders
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Significance of Yorktown
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Last major battle of war
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American stratagies
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Occupy coastal cities
offense
recruit Native Americans and slaves
supplies from southern
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Fighting in south different than in north
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Gorilla warfare
Violent
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American Allies
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French and Spain
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American strengths
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Knowledge of land
help from Netherlands and Spain
military leader
heart
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American weaknesses
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Little training army plagued by shortage taxes low money value men shortage supply loss
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British strengths
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Lots of men recruited Americans well-trained lots of experience well supplied professional army
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British weaknesses
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Costly sending tactics unhappy taxpayers poor leadership changing plans far distance citizens don't care about the war
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Treaty of Paris
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1783
Set boundaries between Americans and Indian
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Effects of war
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Lots of deaths broke War debt loyalist lost their property 13 separate countries independence
