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The Revolutionary War
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Early Phase 1775 - 1777
The Revolutionary War
In 42 Minutes
It did not look like this….
Winter 1776-1777
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
- Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”
Ben Franklin
Middle Phase 1777 - 1779
Winter 1777 at Valley Forge
Baron von Steuben
It wasn’t quite like this, either…
"Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga"
The Marquis de
Lafayette
Fabian Strategy
Late Phase 1779 - 1781
So why didn’t the British win?
You can thank this guy:
… and this guy.
One significant naval battle
John Paul Jones:
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
“The World Turned Upside-Down”
Surrender at Yorktown
October 19, 1781
Why else did the British lose?
War Officially Ends –
Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Disputes with other European countries
- Distance between England and the colonies
- Could not wage total war against colonists (fellow British subjects)
- War was disliked and not supported in England
- The colonies had individual governments; impossible to eliminate them all
- The colonies were physically too big to control
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