Grab a Contrast Sheet
Contrast the Patriots v British in regards to Military
Use the Textbook
1774-1777
Sends Olive Branch Petition
◦ Asks for peace and end to hostilities.
Rejection of attempt at Peace.
What was the name of the Peace
Document?
Hessians arrive in colonies
Common Sense by Thomas
Paine
"Resolved: That these united Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and
independent States, that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the British Crown, and
that all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to
be, totally dissolved."‘ June 7 1776
April 1776
July 2, 1776
July 4, 1776
Aug 2, 1776
Loyalists v. Patriots
Why would some remain Loyalists while
others would be Patriots?
England v. Colonies
◦ Advantages
◦ Disadvantages
England
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Strongest Navy in World
Large Well Trained Army
8 million in population
Lots and lots of wealth
Continentals
◦ No Navy
◦ Lack of Experience
◦ Lack of Ammo and Weapons
Advantages?
◦ Home Turf
◦ George Washington
◦ Founding Fathers
Recruitment
Enlistment
◦ White Men
◦ Women
◦ African Americans
Divide and Conquer
Separate colonial regions from each other and
conquer each separately
Campaigns in the North, Middle and Southern
Colonies
Campaign – A series of battles with an end
goal in mind
Places cannon and dummy
cannon around Boston
Tricks Howe out of Boston
Moves to engage in NY
30,000 Troops land
in NY
Washington Invades
Moral very low after
loss
Had to get morale
up
Crosses the
Delaware
Attacks Hessians at
Trenton
Why Attack
Hessians?
Grab a Constitution Center Field
Trip Permission Form
Prepare for Notes
1777 – Gen Horatio Gates defeats Gen
Burgoyne
Saves separation from New England Colonies.
Ends Canadian Invasion plans
265 Ship Armada lands in MD
17000 Troops to march on Philadelphia
In between Philadelphia and Howe was GW
Howe to meet GW
at Battle of
Brandywine
1200 American
casualties
1900 British
casualties
September 1777 – Battle of the Clouds
Paoli Massacre
Battle of Germantown
All losses for Colonials
Washington's troops weary, low morale
Cold, Snowy Winter
Transformation occurs
Hardships
Lafayette
Freidrich Von
Stueben
Marquis de Lafayette and Baron Von Stueben
France
◦ Franklin in Paris
Spain
John Adams in
England as
Emissary
1777-1781
Hero of Fort
Ticonderoga and Battle
of Saratoga
Planned to surrender
fort at West Point NY,
for 20000 sterling
pounds
Became a brigadier
general in English army
Washington defeats them in New Jersey
British invade to capture Philadelphia
Capture Philadelphia
Washington waits
France Sends troops and a Fleet to support
Spain sends arms and ammunition
Troops arrive
Gen. Jean Baptiste
de Rochambeau
Britain's Plan
◦ Invade South
◦ Loyalists
Francis Marion
◦ Guerrilla Warfare
Washington and Rochambeau to South
De Grasse (French) Stops British Ships
Cornwallis Trapped in Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown
Washington to NY?
Cornwallis in
Yorktown, Trapped
by Lafayette
Admiral de Grasse
in the Chesapeake
Split up
Rochambeau,
Wayne and
Washington to
Yorktown
14000 French and
American troops
7500 British and
Hessian
Aug- Oct 1781
Oct 19 Surrender
Treaty of Paris –
1783
John Jay, Ben
Franklin and John
Adams
Sept 3 Ratification
Independent nation
◦ Territory
Withdraw all British Troops from our territory
Fishing rights off Canada
Merchants can collect Debt
Loyalists property returned
Home Field Advantage
◦ Ambush
Help from other Nations
Spirit of the Patriots
Boycott
Committee of
Correspondence
Propaganda
Quartering
Loyalist
Patriot
Olive Branch
Petition
Hessian
Minuteman
Redcoat
Lexington and
Concord
King George III
George Washington
Bunker Hill
Ben Franklin
Fort Ticonderoga
John and Sam Adams
Saratoga
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
Yorktown
Rochambeau
Germantown Friedrich Von Stueben
Brandywine
John Paul Jones
Francis Marion
Fort Mifflin
Paoli
Navigation Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act 1764
Stamp Act 1765
Declaratory Act 1766
Townshend Acts 1767
Tea Act 1773
Boston Massacre – March 5 1770
Coercive Acts
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