I.     The War in 1776

A. Attack on Canada (Aug. – Dec. June, 1776)

B. Moore’s Creek Bridge (Feb., 1776)

C. British retreat from Boston (Mar., 1776)

D. Attempt on Charleston (June, 1776)

II.  War in the Northeast

A. The Campaign for New York: Aug. – Dec., 1776 (William Howe vs. George Washington)

1.             NY was key

2.             Battle of Long Island

3.             Americans Flee

4.             Nathan Hale

5.             Significance of Battles for New York

B. Trenton: Dec., 1776 (Hessian Commander Colonel Johann Rahl v. Washington at Trenton)

1.             "Necessity, Dire Necessity"

2.             Crossing the Delaware

3.             Surprise Attack and Surrender

4.             Importance of Victory

C. Princeton: Jan., 1777 (Gen. Charles Cornwallis v. Washington)

1.             Washington Stops Retreat at Princeton

2.             Importance of These Battles

D. Brandywine and Germantown: July, 1777 (Gen. Howe v. Washington)

1.             Fight at Brandywine Creek

2.             Howe Enters Philadelphia

3.             Americans Attack at Germantown

4.             Significance of These Battles

E.  Valley Forge

1.             Terrible Conditions

2.             Baron von Steuben

F.  Saratoga (Gen. John Burgoyne v. Gen. Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold.)

1.             Burgoyne's Campaign down from Canada

2.             Gen. Burgoyne

3.             Burgoyne's First Obstacle - Fort Ticonderoga

4.             Burgoyne's Plan to Meet Gen. Barry St. Leger and Howe at Albany

5.             St. Leger's Defeat at Oriskany and Hessian Defeat at Bennington

6.             American Rifleman under Daniel Morgan

7.             Benedict Arnold's Role

G. The Alliance with France

1.             France's Role to this point

2.             Franklin’s Role

3.             The Franco-American Treaty

4.             How entry of French changed strategy of British.

H. Monmouth (Washington v. Sir Henry Clinton)

1.             Clinton is ordered to remove to NY

2.             Dissension in American Army and Gen. Charles Lee

3.             Lee Retreats at Monmouth

4.             Washington Inspires Troops

5.             Story of Molly Pitcher

6.              Significance of Battle

III.          Vincennes: 1778 – Feb., 1779 (George Rogers Clark v. Henry Hamilton)

1.             Clark recaptures Vincennes

2.             Importance of Clark's Victory

IV.         Naval Battles

A. Privateers

B. John Paul Jones (Bonhomme Richard v. Serapis)

C. Pursuit of Empire

V.  The War in the South: British Victories

A. New British Strategy

B. Fall of Savannah: Dec. 1778

C. The Tory War

1.             Banastre Tarleton

2.             Francis Marion - the Swamp Fox

D. Charleston: May, 1780

E.  Camden: Aug., 1780 (Horatio Gates v. Charles Cornwallis)

VI.         Benedict Arnold and West Point

A. Importance of West Point

B. Arnold's Plan

C. Capture of Major John Andre

D. Arnold's Escape and Andre's Execution

VII.      The War in the South: A Turn of Fortune

A. King's Mountain: Oct., 1780 (Frontiersmen v. Patrick Ferguson's Loyalists)

B. Cowpens: Jan., 1781 (Daniel Morgan v. Banastre Tarleton)

1.             Morgan's Strategy at Cowpens

2.             Impact of Battle

C. Guilford Courthouse: Mar., 1781 (Nathanael Greene v. Charles Cornwallis)

1.             Greene's Strategy in the Carolinas

2.             Cornwallis' Tactics at Guilford Courthouse

3.             Aftermath of the Battle                                              

D. Yorktown

1.             Economic Problems of Americans and French - Desperate Situation

2.             Strategy of Washington and Rochambeau

3.             Naval victory of De Grasse

4.             Siege of Yorktown and British Surrender

5.             Reaction in England

6.             How Washington saved the Revolution after Yorktown

VIII.    Why did the Americans Win?

IX.         The Treaty of Paris

A. American Negotiaters (Ben Franklin, John Adam and John Jay)

B. What France Wanted

C. What England wanted

D. The Treaty

1.             Great Britain recognized independence of the US

2.             Great Britain recognized the US' claims to the territory west to the Mississippi and from Great Lakes to Florida

3.             Florida returned to Spain

4.             US gets fishing privileges off Newfoundland

5.             Britain agrees to withdraw their troops from American soil

6.             US agrees

a)            British can collect debts owed by Americans

b)            Congress would urge the states to restore to the Loyalists the property they'd confiscated and would prevent further confiscation of property

c)             England and US could mavigate the Mississippi

E.  Analysis: Why Americans got favorable terms

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