Grade 10 presentation on the Revolutionary War

1. American RevolutionAmerican Revolution
Battles and Events
1775-1781

2. Fort Ticonderoga
May 1775
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen with the
Green Mountain Boys – surprise attack
took fort and artillery (French & Indian
War)

3. Dorchester Heights
March 17, 1776
Col. Henry Knox

4. Battle of New York (Oct. 1776)
 British evacuated Boston
to Canada
 Decide to re-enter in NY
(Staten Island)
 Americans overwhelmed
and must escape
 British elect not to
follow, (cost them a big
victory)
 Americans- Washington
 British- William Howe

5. Battles of Trenton and Princeton
(Dec 1776-Jan 1777)
 Americans chased into
Penn. by Gen.
Cornwallis (Crossing the
Delaware picture)
 Americans surprise
Hessians (German
mercenaries) @ Trenton
on X-Mas
 Americans leave fires
burning to distract
British, Americans
outflank them at
Princeton .

6. “Gentleman Johnny’s Plan”
 British Gen. Burgoyne’s
3-pronged attack to take
New England
– Burgoyne south from
Canada
– Howe north from New
York
– St. Ledger east along
Mohawk valley
 Three meet at Albany and
cut off New England

7. Battle of Saratoga
(Sept 1777)
 “Turning Point in the War”
 Burgoyne’s plan is a failure
– Burgoyne and St. Ledger were
behind schedule (too slow) –
Thanks to Ethan Allen & GMB
– Howe won’t show up – He loves
Philadelphia
 Continentals led by Gen
Horatio Gates defeat
Burgoyne at Saratoga
 Convinced French to Support
Americans and come to our aid
in the war (FRANKLIN, MA)

8. Philadelphia
(1777-1778)
 Sept 1777- Americans defeated
@ Brandywine (C.C. must flee
to Baltimore)
 Paoli Massacre
 Oct 1777- Americans,
reinforced by French defeat
British at Germantown

9. Valley Forge
 Valley Forge- Americans camp
in Penn. Low point for
Americans (no supplies or
food)
 With help of (Friedrich von
Steuben and Marquis de
Lafayette) American’s new
trained army able to hold off
and force retreated in
Monmouth, NJ
 10,000 men enter camp
 2,000 die
 Valley Forge

10. War in the South
(1779-1781)
 British Gen.’s
Clinton and
Cornwallis turn focus
to the south
 1780-Greatest British
victory of war
(Charlestown S.C.)

12. Yorktown
 French &
Continentals combine
forces
 1781- British
surrender at
Yorktown, Virginia

13. Who Else Helped?
 Women
Sarah Franklin Bache
Margaret Corbin
Mary Ludwig Hayes McCauly
 African Americans
 Financers
Robert Morris

14. Treaty of Paris
 John Jay,
 John Adams,
Ben Franklin
 Results?