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Title: Revolutionary War Battles and Leaders


1
Revolutionary War Battles and Leaders
  • Patriot Generals

George Washington Commander of the Continental
Army Marquis de Lafayette Commander of the
French forces
2
British Generals
  • General Howe
  • General Cornwallis
  • General Burgoyne

3
Key Battles New England
  • Early fighting in Massachusetts (First shots were
    fired at Lexington Concord)
  • British leave New England in 1776
  • British then attack the middle colonies
  • Can you name the two key cities in the middle
    colonies?

4
Key Battles Middle Colonies
  • British capture Philadelphia and New York City
  • December 26, 1776 General Washington crosses
    the Delaware River and wins the Battle of Trenton

5
Crossing the Delaware
  • What effect did this victory have for the
    Patriots?
  • What event in your life was like Crossing the
    Delaware? (Your spirits were down and then
    improved)

6
Middle Colonies - continued
  • April 1777 Patriots win the Battle of Saratoga
    (in upstate New York)
  • Turning point of the war
  • France decides to join the war

7
Who convinces the French to join?
  • Ben Franklin

8
Valley Forge (Pennsylvania)
  • Winter of 1777-1778
  • British warm and in the city
  • Washingtons army endures difficult conditions
    in the country (lack of shoes, blankets, food)
    but does not quit!

9
Valley Forge not quitting
  • Why were the Patriots able to make it through the
    difficult times?
  • What event in your life would you consider a
    Valley Forge?

10
Are the teams a little more even?
  • British vs Patriots and the French
  • 1779 Spain joins the war as a French ally

11
Key Battles Southern Colonies
  • British leave the Middle Colonies and invade the
    South
  • Win battles in Georgia and South Carolina
  • General Cornwallis then invades Virginia and
    camps on the Yorktown peninsula

12
Battle of Yorktown
  • October 1781
  • What role is geography going to play?

13
Battle of Yorktown
  • General Washington and the French led by Marquis
    de Lafayette trap General Cornwallis at Yorktown
  • Cornwallis calls on the British Navy to rescue
  • However, the French Navy has blocked the path to
    Yorktown
  • Cornwallis must surrender!

14
Treaty of Paris of 1783
  • Ends the Revolutionary War
  • America gains independence from Britain
  • What an upset victory!!!!
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