9.2 revolutionary war_ii

Benedict Arnold
General Benedict Arnold was an early hero of the Revolution
- He led a daring, but unsuccessful invasion of Canada
built a Navy on Lake Champlain in NY, stopping the British advance
was a leader at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga & at Saratoga
- felt unappreciated & was accused of treason because of his loyalist wife and friends
- Committed treason by offering to give up West Point on the Hudson River

The West
George Rogers Clark – American military leader
with a small army he captured several British-held towns
along the Ohio River during 1778-79.
He secured the area for the Americans and strengthened
America’s claim to the region after the War.

The Southern Campaign Savannah, Georgia - the British occupied the city in December of 1778 - reinstated the British Royal Governor

CharlesTown, South Carolina - Captured by the British in May of 1780 - Over 5,000 American troops were captured - The worst defeat of the War for the Americans

Charles Cornwallis
Was made British military commander in the South
in the summer of 1780

Battle of King’s Mountain , October 1780 - British attacked on the frontier, backcountry colonists - enraged ‘overmountain men’ raised a militia and ambushed & defeated a British cavalry unit - rural southerners began organizing Patriot militias

Nathaniel Greene – Washington’s best remaining general was made American commander in the South. Daniel Morgan – sent by Greene into South Carolina to wear down the British by attacking supplies & small units Francis Marion – “ The Swamp Fox” most successful leader of hit-and-run raids against the British in South Carolina

Battle of Cowpens (S.C.), January 1781 - A small force under Daniel Morgan defeated part of Cornwallis’ British Army Guilford Courthouse (N.C.), March 1781 - Cornwallis & the British won the battle & forced Greene to retreat, but he continued to fight: "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.” - British casualties were so high, however, that Cornwallis retreated to the coast and then decided to invade north into Virginia - Greene moved south and began reconquest of South Carolina

Battle of the Capes September 1781 - French Fleet defeated the British off the American coast and the French controlled the waters off Virginia’s coast

Battle of Yorktown (VA), September- October 1781 - Cornwallis positioned the British Army on the York-James Peninsula, expecting British naval support - Washington moved south, blocked Cornwallis onto the peninsula and began bombarding the British Army - The French fleet blocked Cornwallis by sea and began shelling his army as well. - October 17, 1781 – The largest part of the British Army, led by Cornwallis, surrendered to Washington and the fighting of the Revolutionary War was essentially over

Treaty of Paris (1783)
American negotiators were John Adams, Ben Franklin, John Jay
Britain forced to recognize American independence
America took control of all territory between Canada and Florida (which went to Spain) and the territory between the Atlantic and the Mississippi River
Americans still had to pay their debts to British banks & businesses

9.2 revolutionary war_ii

by Mike Ray on Jan 22, 2012

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