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The French still bitter about their loss to Britain has been secretly been sending the Patriots weapons since early 1776
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The British retreated from Boston
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British has previously retreated from Boston
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The two Howe brothers joined forces and led the largest British expeditionary force to take New York
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The two howe brather led the British army to take over New York from the colonists
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Americans retreat from New York following heavy losses
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The Americans retreat from New York following the Battle of New
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The British has pushed Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania
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The British push Washington's army across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania
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Washington led 2400 men across the Delaware River to sneak up on the Hessian
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Washington led his army of 2400 men across the Delaware River to attack the Hessians
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Around 8 o'clock Washington's army marched nine miles and catch the hungover Hessians by surprise killing 30, taking 918 captive, and six Hessian cannons.
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Fewer than 8000 men remained under Washington's command, and the terms of their enlistment were due to end on December 31
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The date where 8000 soilder's enlistment were due to end in Washington's army
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The Americans rally another victory at Princeton against 1200 British soldiers
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General Howe begins his campaign to seize the American capital at Philadelphia
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American troops finally surrounded Burgoyne at Saratoga, where he surrendered his battered army to General Gates
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It's the Winter of Valley Forge where George Washington army was struggling to stay alive
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Winter of Valley Forge where George Washington army was struggling to survive
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The French recognized American independence and signed an alliance, or treaty of cooperation, with the Americans
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At Valley Forge the American troops begin to transform into an effective army led by Friedrich von Steuben
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Another military leader, the Marquis de Lafayette, a brave 20-year-old French aristocrat, offered his assistance
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The British shift their operations to the South to get loyalists allies
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A British expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia
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A royal governor once again commanded Georgia
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Lafayette joined Washington's staff and bore the misery of Valley Forge, lobbied for French reinforcements in France
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General Henry Clinton and General Charles Cornwallis sailed south with 8500 men
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In the greatest victory of the war, the British captured Charles Town, South Carolina, and marched 5500 American soldiers off as prisoners of war
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A French army of 6000 had landed in Newport, Rhode Island
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Cornwallis's army smashed American forces at Camden, South Carolina
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The British have established forts across South Carolina
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When the forces of Morgan and Tarleton meet at Cowpens, South Carolina, the British expected the outnumbered Americans to flee; but the Continental Army fought back, and forced the redcoats to surrender
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Angered by the defeat at Cowpens, Cornwallis attacked Greene at Guilford Court House, North Carolina and won but it cost Cornwallis a fourth of his troops
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Greene had weakened the British, but he worried about the fight for the South. So he wrote a letter to Lafayette, asking for help
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The Congress appointed a rich Philadelphia merchant named Robert Morris as superintendent of finance
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Due to the efforts of Morris and Salomon the troops were finally paid in specie, or gold coin
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With his troops outnumbered two to one and exhausted from constant shielding, Cornwallis finally raised the white flag of surrender
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American and French armies lining the road near Yorktown witnessing the surrender of the British
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Peace talk began between the United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain
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The delegates sign the Treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S. independence and set boundaries of the new nation