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1)This was a mohawk chief. 2)Most Native Americans joined the British because they seemed less of a threat. 3)The Native Americans did most the fighting west of the Appalachian Mts. 4)This person was trying to tell the king to not use them and the white men treat them badly and that they also have rights and for their land to not be taken away. |
Joseph Brant |
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1)This was a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia. 2)His goal was to end the British attacks on western settlers. 3)With him taking the fort over a second time strengthened the American position in the west. |
George Rogers Clark |
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1)Privately owned merchant ships with weapons. 2)These needed to be created because of the British blockade and because the American Navy was basically nonexistent. 3)To get supplies and from other parts of the colonies and destroy the blockade. |
Privateers |
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1)He is an American naval officer. 2)His ship was the Bonhomme Richard. 3)In sep 1779 he met a British warship called Serapis. 4)He won this battle. 5)Later after the battle his ship sunk. |
John Paul Jones |
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1)This is a British general. 2)He realized he could not control the area he had conquered and that he had faced a new kind of warfare. 3)He abandoned the Carolina campaign. 4)It bought new support to the war from southerners. 5)He believed they needed to win the war quickly because more french troops were coming the patriots still held Virginia and troops and supplies were still heading south. |
General Charles Cornwallis |
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1)A hit and run technique where soldiers apear attack and the disaperar. 2)The Patriots used guerrilla warfare which caught the British off guard. 3)The strategy was to leave them leaderless and then attack the soldiers. |
Guerrilla warfare |
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1)A very successful guerrilla leader. 2)In the swamps of South Carolina. 3)Swamp Fox operated out of the swamps and was quick and smart. |
Francis Marion |
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1)Commander of the continental forces in the south after replacing Gates. 2)Do not go full out attack to split in half and have half do guerrilla raids and the half defeated british at Cowpens. 3) He was successful. |
Nathanael Green |
