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Early Defeats
-British capture all major colonial cities
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Charleston
-Washington’s army in retreat and many desert
Patriot Victories
-a few victories helped keep morale up
-Dec. 1776 at Trenton
Jan. 1777 at Princeton
Turning Point
-large British force defeated at Saratoga Oct. 1777
-kept British near the coastline
-helped colonists get French help in the war effort
-turning point of the war
Valley Forge
-camp site of Washington’s army during winter of 1777-78.
-British forces occupied nearby cities
-many soldiers died of cold and starvation
-Congress struggled to gain supplies for the army
-lack of central gov’t
Civilian Life
-inflation
-shortage of goods
-women took over the work of men
-some women helped the military effort
Foreign Help
-foreign military leaders offered professional training for the army
-Friedrich von Steuben
Prussian officer who trained patriot soldiers
-Marquis de Lafayette
led volunteer army from France
Southern Campaign
-British strategy changed to splitting the colonies
-Charleston
captured by Cornwallis
-Kings Mtn
Patriot
-Cowpens
Patriot
War’s End
-Guilford Courthouse
costly British victory
-retreat to Yorktown
-surrounded by French and Americans
-Cornwallis surrenders Oct, 1781
Treaty of Paris
-Treaty of Paris 1783
-recognized U.S. independence
-set boundaries to the Mississippi
-some provisions of the treaty will lead to trouble later