European Aid &
Key Individuals
American Revolution
Flashcards
• You have each been given a pack of 10
flashcards
• You are going to write the names of key
individuals and information about
important battles on the cards
Benjamin
Franklin
Inventor and Diplomat:
secured the French
alliance that helped to
make independence
possible.
Marquis de Lafayette
• Born in France
• Served in the
American Revolution
as a general without
pay
• Helped gain
financial and military
support from
France.
Valley Forge
Mount Vernon
Battle at Brandywine
Ben Franklin
• Diplomat: secured the French alliance that
helped to make independence possible.
• Inventor: Invents the lightning rod, the
glass harmonica, the Franklin stove, and
bifocal glasses
Baron Friedrich von Steuben
• Prussian-born military
officer who served
with George
Washington.
• At Valley Forge, he
taught the Continental
Army the essentials of
military drill and
discipline.
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Steuben's log cabin residence at Utica
Benedict Arnold
• Led forces with Gates to win the Battle of Saratoga
• Worked with Benjamin Franklin to enlist French aid.
• Traitor: plotted to surrender the American fort at West
Point, New York to the British.
Comte de Rochambeau
• Given command of 5,000 French troops and
sent to join the American colonists fighting
against Great Britain during siege of Yorktown.
• His troops helped force General Cornwallis to
surrender.
Landing of a French auxiliary army
in Newport, Rhode Island on July 11, 1780
Battle of Yorktown
Lexington and Concord (Recap)
• Began when British troops were sent to
capture John Hancock and Samuel
Adams.
• British troops were also sent to collect
ammunition being stored outside of Boston
by colonial militia-Minutemen.
Valley Forge (Recap)
• American Continental Army stayed here
in the winter of 1777-1778.
• Great suffering in the Winter
• Re-training and rejuvenation in the
Spring
Battle of Trenton
This battle took place on December 26,
1776. George Washington led the main
Continental Army across the Delaware
river to surprise attack the Hessians.
Battle of Saratoga
• American victory at the beginning of the
war which resulted in the surrender of an
entire British army.
• A benefit from this victory was that France
entered the conflict on behalf of the
Americans.
Battle of Yorktown
• Combined assault of French and
American Forces led by George
Washington that led to the final defeat
of the British.
French Finance
(Money)
• France gave the colonies money and
supplies from the beginning of the conflict
• France hoped to be the first trading
partners with the newly independent
American colonies, but they were slighted
and cut out of the new trading relationship
with Great Britain.
• The Revolutionary War put France in debt
2 billion dollars.
French Fighters
(Leaders and Soldiers)
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Rochambeau and his
5,000 men (1780)
French Fleet
(Navy)
• Fought in other parts of the world too.
• Battle of Yorktown
1. What does the Bulletin from Count Degrass in the
Caribbean say?
2. What news does Lafayette send to Washington about
the British whereabouts?
3. Why can’t the British fleet come to the aid of Cornwallis
and his troops?
4. What is a siege? What animal is used to illustrate the
siege?
5. What was the fate of the British Black auxiliaries during
the siege?
6. What is the date of Cornwallis’s surrender?
Disc 3 Part V Ch.9 35:19 – 46:08
Works Cited
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_Rochambeau
http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1176354_f260.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/images/lafayette.jpg