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Ch 6 Revolutionary War
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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
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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
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Guerilla Warfare
• Small bands of patriot soldiers suddenly appear attack and disappear.
• Leader of this unique tactic was Francis Marion also known as “Swamp Fox”.
Swamp Fox
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Vocabulary:
• blockade
• privateer
• guerrilla warfare
• left without permission
• privately owned merchant ships equipped with weapons
• a hit and run technique of fighting
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Yorktown
Cornwallis
• 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
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• 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
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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
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• 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
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Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis got CORNERED!!
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American Revolution is Over!!!!
American’s Won!!!
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Independence• Treaty of Paris signed on Sept 3, 1783
– B Franklin, John Adams, Jon Jay represented the US in working and approving preliminary treaty
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• 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
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Washington’s FarwellDec 4,1783
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• 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
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Started War?
Lexington and Concord
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Turning Point
Saratoga
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Last Battle
Yorktown
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Vocabulary:
• ratified• ambush
• approved
• a surprise attack