Chapter 4: American Revolution

A meeting of representatives in 1774 to discuss the colonies relationship with Great Britain

• Winter at Valley Forge

• First Continental Congress

• Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

• Second Continental Congress

Taught us how to build forts and trenches

• Francis Marion

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Bonhomme Richard

• Thaddeus Kosciusko

Fought in Canada - bad weather made us give up on Canada

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Quebec

Once a hero became a traitor at West Point

• Lord Cornwallis

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Benedict Arnold

He trained the American Calvary

• Baron Friedrich Von Steuben

• John Paul Jones

• Casmir Pulaski

• Continental Army

The colonists army led by George Washington

• Casmir Pulaski

• Continental Army

• Winter at Valley Forge

• John Paul Jones

"don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes" actually fought on Breed's Hill - colonist had to retreat but moral victory

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Trenton

• Battle of Lexington

• Battle of Yorktown

Warned the regulars/ redcoats were coming - captured and released

• Thaddeus Kosciusko

• Ben Franklin

• Nathan Hale

• Paul Revere

Hit and run fighting style

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Bonhomme Richard

• Thaddeus Kosciusko

• Francis Marion

French General who volunteered his services and a bunch of his own money

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Benedict Arnold

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Lord Cornwallis