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15 Cards in this Set
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Valley Forge |
1777-78, hardships, freezing, not enough food, disease. |
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Treaty of Paris |
September 3, 1783. Ended war, recognized America as independent nation |
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Privateers |
Merchant ships outfitted with weapons |
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George Rogers Clark |
Patriot. Major player in the battle for the West |
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Deborah Sampson |
Patriot. Girl who dressed as a man to fight for her country. Honorably discharged after people found out she was a girl in the hospital. |
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Charles Cornwallis |
British general who's surrender convinced Parliament war would be to costly to continue. |
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Benedict Arnold |
Traitor. Originally served with the Continentals, was bought out by Britan, ended up getting John Andre killed. |
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John Paul Jones |
Leader of Continental Navy |
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Nathanael Greene |
Quaker, Patriot general, major sucess at Cowpens |
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"Turning Point of the war" |
Saratoga |
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Allied with America after Saratoga |
France |
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Turned ragtag Continental Army into a fighting force |
Fredrich Von Stueben |
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Had major victory at Vincennes in the West |
George Rogers Clark |
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Who was the "Swamp Fox?" |
Francis Marion |
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Guerilla Warfare |
Running through the underbrush, sneak attacks, ambush, frowned upon. |
