British Strengths

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British Strengths

• Up to 50,000 British Soldiers In America
• Up to 30,000 Hessians
• Loyalists-Tories 1 in 4 at the Most
• Many Colonists Too Busy To Care
• Iroquois Confederacy Split

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American Colonial Strengths?

• Smaller Army, Continentals at Most 19,000, At
  Times 5,000
• Militia Seasonal
• Small Navy
• BUT.

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Americans

• Only Had to Fight a War of Defense to Wear Out
  Enemy, Take Away Military and an Idea
• British Had to Import Everything
• Country Side Good for Guerilla Warfare
• US Would Get Foreign Aid

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Early Fighting
General Howe-England
George Washington America
Washington Pushes Howe out of Boston, but Howe
Attacks New York, Driving Washington into New
Jersey and Pennsylvania
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Battles of Trenton and Princeton
Both American Victoriesbut then.
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Howe Occupies Philadelphia
Washingtons Army Endures Defeat and a Harsh
Winter in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, But Help
is on the Way
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American General Horatio Gates defeats British at
Saratoga..
Causing the French to Ally with the Americans
Marquis de Lafayette
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Benedict Arnold
General Cornwallis Surrenders 8,000 Troops to
Washington at the Battle Of Yorktown, Virginia
October 19, 1781
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Treaty of Paris, September 1783
More Liberty After the War?????
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Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance