The People

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The People Battles of the American Revolution
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Concord Massachusetts

• 70 minutemen-colonial militia men ready to fight
  at a minutes notice lined up
• British ordered them to leave
• Someone fired a shot
• British fired many shots
• 8 minutemen killed
• 1 British soldier injured
• Battle time 15 minutes

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Lexington Massachusetts

• 3,000 4,000 minutemen fired on the British from
  behind walls and trees
• Many British soldiers were killed
• The rest of the British soldiers retreated to
  Boston
• Lexington Concord, Massachusetts, began the
  American Rev. Shot Heard Around the World

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Second Continental Congress

• Met in Philadelphia after Lexington and Concord
  battles
• Drafted petition for King George III, asking for
  end of unfriendly steps against the colonies
• George III refused to accept the petition
• Authorized Continental Army with George
  Washington as the commander.

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Battle of Bunker Hill/ Breeds Hill

• June 1775
• Took British 3 attacks to win
• Colonial Casualties 450
• British Casualties 1,000

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN GEORGIA

• Many Georgians hesitated to join the revolution
  because
• Ga. Was young and was doing well economically
• Many still had relatives in England

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Revolutionary War Fighting in Georgia

• Savannah captured and looted by British troops in
  December 1778 lootings, murders, and burnings
  occurred
• Sunbury port captured in early 1779 Augusta was
  also attacked
• Georgia militia not effective against
  well-trained British troops
• Governor Wright eventually returned from Great
  Britain to govern Georgia

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Battle of Kettle Creek (1779)

• Colonel Elijah Clarke led Georgia militia,
  defeated 800 British troops near Washington,
  Georgia
• Great victory for morale of the militia and
  Georgians seeking independence
• Won badly-needed weapons and horses from the
  British

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Elijah Clarke1733-1799

• Led militia in Georgia to their first victory at
  Kettle Creek
• Fought throughout the southern colonies in the
  American Revolution

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Siege of Savannah (1779)

• 15,000 Americans and 4,000 French laid siege to
  Savannah
• Attack on October 9 resulted in 1,000 American
  and French deaths in less than an hour only 40
  British troops died
• Savannah remained under British control for
  nearly four more years

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Georgia Wartime Heroes

• Nancy Hart single-handedly captured a group of
  British loyalists who bragged of murdering an
  American colonel Hart County is the only county
  named for a woman
• Austin Dabney fought with distinction and was
  wounded at Kettle Creek he also saved Elijah
  Clarkes life during that battle

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Nancy Hart 1735-1830

• A fierce patriot
• Spy for the patriots
• Known for her determined efforts to rid the area
  of Tories, English soldiers, and British
  sympathizers.
• Killing one Tory and capturing others who came to
  take her food

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Austin Dabney 1765-1830

• A slave who became a private in the Georgia
  Militia
• Only black soldier to fight in the Battle of
  Kettle Creek.
• Only African American Granted land for military
  service

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The War Ends

• Elijah Clarke, the Georgia Militia, and the
  Continental Army regain Augusta from British in
  June 1781 11 battles or skirmishes fought in
  Georgia during the war
• George Washington and the Continental Army force
  British Gen. Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown,
  Virginia in October 1781
• British leave Savannah in the spring of 1782
• Treaty of Paris (September 1783) ends war treaty
  is signed by United States, Great Britain, and
  France

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Lyman Hall1724-1790

• Representative from Georgia to the Second
  Continental Congress
• Signed the Declaration of Independence

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Button Gwinnett1732-1777

• Representative from Georgia to the Second
  Continental Congress
• Signed the Declaration of Independence

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George Waltonaround 1749-1804

• Representative from Georgia to the Second
  Continental Congress
• Signed the Declaration of Independence

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Hall, Gwinnett, and Walton
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George Washington1732-1799

• Led the British troops who started the French and
  Indian War
• Led the Continental army against the British
• General at the Battle of Yorktown
• First President

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