European Aid &Key

IndividualsAmerican Revolution

Flashcards• You have each been given a pack of 10

flashcards

• You are going to write the names of key individuals and information about important battles on the cards

Benjamin Franklin

Inventor and Diplomat: secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

Marquis de Lafayette • Born in France

• Served in the American Revolution as a general without pay

• Helped gain financial and military support from France.

Battle at Brandywine

Valley Forge

Mount Vernon

Ben Franklin

• Diplomat: secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

• Inventor: Invents the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, the Franklin stove, and bifocal glasses

Baron Friedrich von Steuben

• Prussian-born military officer who served with George Washington.

• At Valley Forge, he taught the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline.

Valley

Forge

Steuben's log cabin residence at Utica

Benedict Arnold • Led forces with Gates to win the Battle of Saratoga• Worked with Benjamin Franklin to enlist French aid. • Traitor: plotted to surrender the American fort at West

Point, New York to the British.

Comte de Rochambeau • Given command of 5,000 French troops and

sent to join the American colonists fighting against Great Britain during siege of Yorktown.

• His troops helped force General Cornwallis to surrender.

Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on July 11, 1780

Battle of Yorktown

Lexington and Concord (Recap)

• Began when British troops were sent to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

• British troops were also sent to collect ammunition being stored outside of Boston by colonial militia-Minutemen.

Valley Forge (Recap)

• American Continental Army stayed here in the winter of 1777-1778.

• Great suffering in the Winter

• Re-training and rejuvenation in the Spring

Battle of Trenton

This battle took place on December 26, 1776. George Washington led the main Continental Army across the Delaware river to surprise attack the Hessians.

Battle of Saratoga

• American victory at the beginning of the war which resulted in the surrender of an entire British army.

• A benefit from this victory was that France entered the conflict on behalf of the Americans.

Battle of Yorktown

• Combined assault of French and American Forces led by George

Washington that led to the final defeat of the British.

French Finance(Money)

• France gave the colonies money and supplies from the beginning of the conflict

• France hoped to be the first trading partners with the newly independent American colonies, but they were slighted and cut out of the new trading relationship with Great Britain.

• The Revolutionary War put France in debt 2 billion dollars.

French Fighters (Leaders and Soldiers)

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Rochambeau and his 5,000 men (1780)

French Fleet (Navy)

• Fought in other parts of the world too.

• Battle of Yorktown

1. What does the Bulletin from Count Degrass in the Caribbean say?

2. What news does Lafayette send to Washington about the British whereabouts?

3. Why can’t the British fleet come to the aid of Cornwallis and his troops?

4. What is a siege? What animal is used to illustrate the siege?

5. What was the fate of the British Black auxiliaries during the siege?

6. What is the date of Cornwallis’s surrender?Disc 3 Part V Ch.9 35:19 – 46:08

Works Cited• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_Rochambeau• http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1176354_f260.jpg• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War• http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/images/lafayette.jpg