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Revolutionary war (British Advantages)

-bigger military


-experienced


-already established


-they have money

Revolutionary war (American advantages)

-they know the land better


-determined with a cause


-France allies


-other long supply line, war not popular back home in Europe



Bunker Hill 1775

-reaction from the retreat of lexington and concord


-the british have a touch situtation but they know they have to strike the colonist


-army of 2500 british


- british want to go straight up the hill b/c they think the americans military is horrible


-dont shoow till u see the whites of their eyes

Bunker Hill 1775 pt 2.

-Americans proved it off

-The British had to take 3 charges up the hill


-The First Charge about 100 died


-3rd charge: now they have 400 new


-Americans do retreat, and proved better thanexpected


-The Americans reformed a line and got moregunpowder and did great

Bunker hill 1775 score board

-British lost 1,054 and 226 dead wounded 1,054


-americans lost 411

Bunker hill 1775 two weeks later

-George washinton showed up with militia and comes forward as a leader of the continental army


-spends winter in boston


-over winter realized boston wasnt the best place to be they leave and try to burn down everything they can

Attack into canada

-done by the americans


-attack fort with 200 men at fort ticonderoga


-have success b/c no one sees it coming


-got 80 guns and 1000 musket balls


-went off to capture quebec


-Philip shiler gets put in charge of military


-has disease inflamed joints


-attacks way to late in late august



attack into canada pt 2

-he not only wants to attack quebec but also montreal in the west


-gathered more men


-arnonld had 1,050 men but out you goes down 750


-out number 2:1 on nov 1


-british had 18 casualties but the americans lost 500

Charleston 1775 fort moultry

-fort that gets replaced by sumter


-about 400 defenders in charlestom


-british try to take charleston


-british want to take the port


-happens in june 1776


-lord nelson wants to get closer in landing in the fort


-all ships ran into ground

charleston 1775 fort moultry pt 2

-british gave up and had to leave


-7 ft water but no one knows how to swim so they had to get to 4 ft of water to touch the ground


-british lost 235 americans had 12 dead and 22 wounded



New york

-british abandon noston for ny


-british decided to stay out on staton island


- washingotn needed to fight and win


-19,000 untrained soldiers


-put some men into brooklyn heights 4,000


-split army and rest manhattan


-july 4th read read declaration pulled statute of king george down



New york pt 2

-richard howe army of 400 vessels show up to the island wit 32,000 men


-all come from britain


--aug 22 deployed 15000 men to long island


-washington wants to fight it out


-aug 22 washingotn plans attack march 10,000 around the end and to come on the right wing of the americans


-830 am new trap, fired signal guns, and make lots of noise right in the middle

New york pt 3

-only try to draw attention to distract americans


-2 hr of total devastation


-hows could have won but chose to be happy


-set up place in manhattan to hold off british


-get another ling going puts more ppl on the flanks and leaves middle weak


-soldiers going crazy thowing their guns in the air and running as fast as they can and running oer slower officers

New york pt 4

-howe called diploamtic meeting


-british took all of ny city


-british burned down the buildings in city


-god 2800 soldiers


-washington leaaves and clears everything


-americans lost 230 but they get lost of captives


-how attacked fort lee


-gun powder was important


-big chase across new jersey into philly

Yorktown

-24 ships in a line


-graes has 19


-de grass has 36 ships now



Cornwallis

-9,000 troops


- surrounded by 20,000 american troops


-cornwallis asked for 24 hrs


-british surrender and cry at surrender


-all equpiment were given to americans


-troops were taken into captivity


-troops rnt allowed to fight rest of war


-last major battle of the war


-each congress aid a dollar outta own pocket

Treaty of paris 1783

-ends this war officially


-10 articles


-containseverything


-#1get the united states


-31parellel


-payoff debts to british settlers

Francis Marion

-Patriots were named after


-he was recorded as the 1st terrorist of the world


-would wear officers clothes, and invited the british over for dinner and he would kill them

Camden

-cornwallis


-bloodiest battle in the revolutationary war


- the miltia threw down loaded guns and just ran they were scared


-biggest assult of what takes place


-americans get slaughtered


-gates was the first person i army to arrive from 60 miles in Charlotte


-2 days later he is closer he went home, plowing through the south

Savannah

-small battle 3,500 troops


-use same approach but looking like they are coming in tthe middle but coming around back


-small battle


-biggest battle in camden


-aug 1780 gates and cornwallis'-3 yrs later after saratoga


-gates has about 4000 men they are not in good shape (sick)


-cornwallis only has 2500 trops and he does attack

Southern Campaign

-they have to come up with a way to gather momentum


-the southern war is going all the way down in Virginia, and the Carolinas to get Anglicans and gov support and work their way up through the 13 colonies


-howe quit

Benedict Arnold

-after battle was sent to philadelphia to be a commander


-warrior to traitor


-ego is an issue


-continental congress promoting ppl from states who dont have generals


-he lived is life in complete debt


-guy in debt can be bought


-peggy schiffen pretty girl she is young

Benedict Arnold pt 2

-falls in love with her even though he is way older


-he moves into one of the better pieces of land from Philadelphia


-all he has to do is turn into something to the british - they want west point


-asked to be reassigned t west point


-marries peggy but still has an affair and he knows it john andre and british army


-gets appointed to west point e starts elevating the presence of sodiers in the fort

Benedict Arnold pt 3

he gets the plans and sends them thorugh john andre


-major andre gets capture by american soldiers and erach him and find the plans in the hands of the british


-arrest him and notify washington


-washington then goes to arnold


-arnold gets in a boat and runs away


-wife yelling at him saying how can betray country


-ends up fighting for british --love money and pwer move you to a traitor

Battle of saratoga

-significant battle


-scuyler was being passive so replaced him with gates


-burgoyne has 3 columns of troops


-americans in trenches


-push americnas back


-sept 16 start to fight


-americans retreating


-fire from 3 sides


-american success brtish try and retreat

Batlle of saratoga pt 2

-gates decides to celebrate victory


-arnonld not happy


-fought british into sunset and put them into corner


-arnonld got shot in his leg


-limps for the rest of his life


-british come and surrender the next day


-french get interested in coming into alliance with americans


-feb they come with americnas

3rd prong st.leger

-coming from west into east


-dont have that many ppl


-600 men in the forts at stanwix


-3-1 advantage


-st leger doesnt have guns


-decide to starve ppl


-schuychler decided to send arnold


-arnold has 900 men moving fast


-when he gets to fort on the 23 british pulled out

schuyler up agaisnt burgoyne

schyler is pretty bright


-wealthy family


-2500 men


complicate british route


-chopping trees down to slow them down


-change water supplies and change the route of the damns


-staled the british


-got an average of 1 mile a day

Burgoyne

saratoga oct 17 way to late to be fighting a work


-johnny bugoin


-beleived in comforts of life were more important


-all officers should have their familes with them


-starts in qubec


-play boy has lots of women


-7200 men with wives and children


-moving towards albany

Valley forge 77-78

10000 men built their camps


-25% of his men died in winter


-lafayette is doing lobbying with the french


-prayer at valley forge god is present and with him

German town

-4 routes over a 5 day period, no communication,trying to come in at the same time

- timing was horrible


-1st line got into british and capture and took them away


-howe knows the americans are coming


-washington went from being simple to complicated


-keeps moving military around b/c field combat is a bad thing


-wont get into a toe to toe battle with the british until yorktown

Battle of Brandywine creek

-british 15,000 men


-have an attack


-fake an attack and it works out and looks like the battle of long island


-washington pulls back line quicker


-how wins and goes straight into philly


-now they have ny and philly

British plan of 1777

general howe was suppose to try and attack

princeton

-jan 3rd enlistments that are up


-his men have a loyalty to washington and commitment that keeps fihting


-looking at a store house with riffles cannon gun powder


-extremely cold

Trenton

-New jersey


-toe to toe with the british and its raining


-they fired at each other for 2 hrs


-at end of battle 1,000 british surrender


-heshens were hired by british to fight americans

Chesapeaker capes

-wood ships shooting metal into other ships and the ships sink


-de grass as 24 ships in a line (american)


-graves has 19 ships (british)


-no advantages in numbers


-another 12 show up for americans


-looked at each others for 5 days


-graves take a run with 3 ships in a row


-battle was a small effort by british knowing they werent successful


-short supplies

Treaty of Paris 1783


-ends war officially


-thomas j, ben f, and john jay were there


-10 articles : the us, british recognized american independence, 31 parralell, we agreed we would pay off debts to british creditors

Backcountry War

-women and children getting killed


-back country does farming


-difficult to keep economy and family during war


-so much land battles happening everywhere


-back country men stay home and take care of settlement


-every town and farm got burnt down


-retaliation agaisnt native americans: attacking food supplies

Loyalists or Tories

-4 million americans


-500,000 remained loyal to british


-50,000 took up arms and fought in war for british


-80,000 left their homes to fin


-british didnt trust those guys who said they would figt for them


-idnt give tem stuff cause they didnt trust them


-colonist 10:2

Loyalists or tories pt 2

-kick family members out if they would want to fight with the british


-tories constantly complained about Americans: they were viloent


-mob: something less then a gentlemen -u dont want to be a mob


-tories come from wealthy families

Soldiers life

-line up and fire at each other


-loading gun took 30-45 seconds


-one shot of fire then charge


-signed up for 3 yrs


-if u made it at the very end you got 100 acres of land and got $10


-over 2 yrs of fighting over 200,000 fought for americans


-get meat vegetables and bread

soldier life pt 2

-3500 medical serve


-only 400 had medical schooling


-soldiers were discussing


-straw bedding never cleaned


-wouldnt take baths


-every camp had a volt


-volts were for number 2 but did it everywhere instead of just the volt area

Prisoner

-capture lots of people


-break windows and take man outta home


-wife would never know where their spouses were


-men not in military were main targets


-starving all the time





prisoner (General sillivan)

-held for weeks longer than others


-held in british pov camp


-had is own private quarter


-was able to write and read his own mail


-read books and newspaper


-had a comfortable life as a ranked officier

Native Americans :Trading

-trading happens with americans and indians


-alcohol becam a problem in trading


-women take on more responsibility


-women would trade sex for alcohol


-sex is now part of business nature


-native american men were not happy with their women doing this, neither were white men

Native americans :trading pt 2

-very bad situation


-women now process the alcholo which gives them power in the community


-wome would sell tis to men and men paid a lot for this


-native American women finding out how to make profit


-violence is aggressive

Native american:Prisoners

white took natives, and vice versa


-cannibalism: algonquins had rituals about war


-women were considered women of peace or women of war


-whoever saw the would determine the fate of the prisoner


-once u were adopted u were welcomed


-at end of war this doesnt end up working


-white european based ppl thing u have war-take prisoners and then give them back

native americans:Prisoner pt 2

-nativess think u take white people and never give them back after the war


-family


-slaves


-or as dinner

Native american: Gifts

-british gave good gifts to indian to fight


-americans said if they dont fight us tey will kill them