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The British retreated from Boston moving the war to the Middle states as apart of a big plan to take New York City.
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Washington was outnumbered and had untrained recruits with poor equipment and it ended with an American retreat and heavy losses.
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Washington rallied 23,000 men to defend New York but he was outnumbered and decided to retreat after suffering heavy losses.
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In the all the British pushed Washington's army across the Delaware River and into Pennsylvania. Washington had fewer than 8,000 men still under his command.
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Washington decided he would try to strike a British post in the middle of the night since his troops term would end on December 31st.
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George Washington launched his surprise attack and killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and six Hessian cannons.
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8,000 men remained under Washington's command but on December 31st their terms of enlistment would end and he might be left with no men.
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George Washington won against 1,200 British soldiers stationed at Princeton.
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General Howe started to try and take Philadelphia which was the American capital.
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American troops surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga leaving him unable to retreat so he surrendered his army to General Gates.
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Washington and his troops had to stay outside in the cold during the coldest winter in history.
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The French secretly sent weapons to the Patriots since they were still bitter about losing to the British in the French and Indian War.
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After Saratoga the French had recognized American independence and signed an alliance saying that France will not make peace with Britain unless Britain also recognizes American independence.
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Friedrich von Steuben a talented drill master volunteered his services to General Washington to make soldiers of Washington's army of untrained soldiers.
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After the British defeat at Saratoga they decided to change their military strategy and began to shift their operations to the South where all the Loyalists are.
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One British expedition took Savannah, Georgia from the Americans.
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A royal governor was now controlling Georgia once again.
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General Henry Clinton and general Charles Cornwallis sail such with 8,500 men.
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British generals took Charles Town, South Carolina and marched 5,000 American soldiers off as prisoners of war. Following their victory Clinton left for New York and left Cornwallis in charge of the forces in he South to take North and South Carolina.
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Cornwallis had been successful in taking the Carolina's and the further he advanced thousands of African Americans joined the British army to win their freedom.
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Cornwallis's army won against the Continental Army at Camden, and South Carolina.
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A French army of 6,000 landed in Newport, Rhode Island after the British left the city. The French stationed one fleet there and the other in the West Indies. Then Marquis de Lafayette suggested that the Americans and the French join forces with both fleets and attack the British at Yorktown.
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The British established forts across the state but when Cornwallis advanced into North Carolina patriots attacked and cut the British communication lines which made the redcoats retreat to South Carolina.
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When Morgan and his men finally faced the British they were outnumbered but the British thought the Americans would flee. The Continental Army fought back and forced the redcoats to surrender.
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Nathaniel Greene weakened the British but was worried about the fight for the South so he wrote a letter to Lafayette asking for help.
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Congress had been struggling to finance the war and appointed a rich merchant, Robert Morris, as the superintendent of finance hoping that he'd be able to help finance the war.
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Morris and Solomen finally had enough money to pay the troops in gold coin.
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Cornwallis's troops were outnumbered by over two to one and he was exhausted and decided to surrender.
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Colonel William Fontaine stood with the American and French armies to watch the British surrender.
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On October 19th, Washington and the French generals, and troops assembled to accept the British surrender. Once General Charles O'Hara handed over his sword representing Cornwallis the British troops laid down their arms.
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The United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain all came to negotiate American independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.
