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Ch 6 Revolutionary War

Ch 6 Revolutionary War. Glory at Sea. Britain used navy to patrol American waterways Kept ally ships from entering/leaving American harbors Preventing supplies/reinforcements from reaching Continental Army. John Paul Jones.

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Ch 6 Revolutionary War

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  1. Ch 6 Revolutionary War

  2. Glory at Sea • Britain used navy to patrol American waterways • Kept ally ships from entering/leaving American harbors • Preventing supplies/reinforcements from reaching Continental Army

  3. John Paul Jones • Privateers making better efforts at sea than American warships ordered by Continental Congress • John Paul Jones • American naval officer known for raiding British ports • Obtained ship from B Franklin named Bonhomme Richard • Sailed to Britain and attacked • Victorious even though ship sank

  4. Guerilla Warfare Swamp Fox • Small bands of patriot soldiers suddenly appear attack and disappear. • Leader of this unique tactic was Francis Marion also known as “Swamp Fox”.

  5. Vocabulary: left without permission • blockade • privateer • guerrilla warfare • privately owned merchant ships equipped with weapons • a hit and run technique of fighting

  6. Yorktown • Washington north of NY City with troops • French aid trapped by British fleet off coast in Newport • Marquis de Lafayette kept Cornwallis contained on the Yorktown peninsula Cornwallis

  7. August of 1781 • second fleet of French ships under the Admiral Francoise de Grasse heading to Chesapeake Bay instead of NY • Washington secretly changes plans to go to Yorktown, VA

  8. Secret Strategy of 3 Groups • de La Fayette-French Commander with Patriot soldiers in Yorktown • Rochambeau- French commander with French American army in Newport • De Grasse – French Naval commander

  9. The secret was kept • Not even the soldiers knew what was going on • Cornwallis surrounded on land and by sea • On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered

  10. Battle of Yorktown Cornwallis got CORNERED!!

  11. American Revolution is Over!!!! American’s Won!!!

  12. Independence • Treaty of Paris signed on Sept 3, 1783 • B Franklin, John Adams, Jon Jay represented the US in working and approving preliminary treaty

  13. Britain recognized US as an independent nation. • Withdrawal of British troops • The right to fish in water off the coast of Canada • America stretched from Atlantic to Mississippi and Florida to Canada • Property taken from loyalists would be returned • British merchants could still collect debts owed by Americans

  14. Washington’s FarwellDec 4,1783

  15. All British troops now out of NY City • G Washington gave up command • “Having finished the work assigned me I retire… and take my leave of all the employments of public life” • He returned home to Mount Vernon in time for Christmas

  16. Started War? Lexington and Concord

  17. Turning Point Saratoga

  18. Last Battle Yorktown

  19. Vocabulary: approved • ratified • ambush • a surprise attack

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