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Colonials who supported independence from Britain.
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Patriots
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Colonials who wanted to remain part of the British Empire.
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Loyalists
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The British arm in Boston was forced to evacuate to Canada when General Washington’s army received cannons, captured from Fort Ticonderoga, and massed them on the heights around Boston.
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Dorchester Heights
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A British army of 32,000, commanded by General William Howe, defeated Washington’s army of 20,000 and forced them to retreat out of New York.
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New York City
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The Patriot author of “Common Sense” that convinced many colonials to support independence, and “American Crisis” (1777) that persuaded many Americans to stay in Washington’s arm despite their defeat in New York.
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Thomas Paine
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Washington’s US army of 2,400 captured nearly 1000 Hessians (German mercenaries fighting for the British) while losing only 5 US troops.
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Trenton
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Washington’s US army defeated a British army, commanded by General Charles Cornwallis, which caused the British to retreated back to New York City.
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Princeton
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A British army, commander by general Barry St. Leger, was defeated when they tried to capture the vital fort in western new York.
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Fort Stanwix
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US General John Stark commanded a militia force from Vermont which destroyed part of British General Burgoyne’s army trying to get supplies
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Bennington
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US General Horatio Gates’ US army of 18000 forced the remainder of General John Burgoyne’ British army of 8300 to surrender, the turning point of the American Revolution.
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Saratoga
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General William Howe’s British army defeated Washington’s US army and then captured the US capitol city of of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1777.
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Brandywine Creek
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_________ because of the US victory at Saratoga, the French government signed a treaty of Alliance with the US in Paris with Benjamin Franklin as well as an economic treaty worth millions.
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France
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Washington’s US army defeated a part of British General Henry Clinton’s army that abandoned Philadelphia, and retreated back to New York City.
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Monmouth, New Jersey
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US commander whose small army captured most of the British Forsts in present-day Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
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George Rogers Clark
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Once of the many US naval commanders who sank or captured many British merchant ships and some warships.
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John Paul Jones
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declared war on Britain and captured Natchez and other British forts in the southwest (Mississippi and Alabama)
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Spain
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_________ declared war on Britain and made several large loans to the United States.
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Netherlands
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A British army and naval force surrounded the city and forced a US army of 5000, commanded by General Benjamin Lincoln, to surrender.
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Charlestown
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A british army, commanded by General Charles Cornwallis, killed or captured 2300 of a US army of 3000, commanded by General Horatio Gates.
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Camden
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South Carolina October 7, 1780, A US militia captured or killed all of 1000 British Loyalists.
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Kings Mountians
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South Carolina Janurary 17, 1781, US General Daniel Morgan’s 1000 army killed or captured 830 of British General Banastre Tarleton’s cavalry army.
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Cowpens
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was a British army of 2000, commanded by General Cornwallis, defeated a US army commanded by General Nathaniel Greene, suffered 500 casualties and retreated into Virginia.
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Guilford Court House
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US General George Washington’s allied US French army and French naval forces surrounded a British army of 6000 soldiers commanded by General Cornwallis, and forced it to surrender. The most decisive battle of the war.
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Yorktown
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Britain signed the treaty with the United States (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay) giving formal independence to the US, which gained all of the territory east of the MS river except for Spanish Florida and Canada.
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Paris Peace Treaty
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