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 Although Britain seized New York, Philadelphia, and almost every other important colonial city, Washington knew the secret to winning the war.  The British might capture territory, but they could never win the war as long as Americans were willing and able to continue fighting them.  While British troops remained warm and well- fed in Philadelphia, about 20 miles away, Patriot soldiers huddled in huts with few blankets, ragged clothing, and almost no food.  Washington reported to Congress that nearly one third of his 10,000 soldiers were unfit for duty because they lacked coats or shoes.

 The Continental Congress had little real power.  It asked the states to provide troops, money, and supplies, but with no taxing power it could not force them to do so.  Congress issued paper $ to buy supplies but it was worthless because it wasn’t backed by gold or silver.  These bills were not backed by gold or silver, and if Britain were to win the war they would become worthless.  So while Washington’s army starved at Valley Forge, nearby farmers sold their crops in Philadelphia, where the British army paid in gold.

 The British navy blockaded, or isolated from outside contact, the Atlantic Coast and severely disrupted American trade.  The value of American imports and exports fell by over ½.  Necessities were scarce.  A few colonist took advantage of these shortages by profiteering, or selling scarce items at high prices.  Washington suggested that profiteers should be killed by hanging.

 Even when good were available, it was not always possible to purchase them.  Inflation, a steady increase in prices over time, reduced people’s ability to buy goods.  In Mass., the price of a bushel of corn rose from less than one dollar in 1777 to almost eighty dollars in 1779.

 In June 1778, hearing that a French fleet was sailing for America, the British abandoned Philadelphia and returned to reinforce New York.  Trying unsuccessfully to stop the British from reading New York, Washington’s forces fought the British at Monmouth, New Jersey, and inflicted more casualties than they suffered.

 In the spring of 1778, Patriot militia under Colonel George Rogers Clark began fighting the British.  By late summer, with the help of French settlers, Clark and his 175 soldiers had captured all the British posts in what are now Indiana and Illinois.  A month later a British force of 500, half of them Native Americans, returned to the Indiana Fort Vincennes.

 In 1779 the focus of the war shifted to the South where the British hoped to draw on Loyalist sympathies.  Supported by the Royal Navy, British forces from New York seized Savannah, Georgia, in December 1778 and Charleston, South Carolina, in May  This pitted Americans against Americans, because Tories did much of the fighting for the British.

 Patriot reinforcements arrived, and Cornwallis marched his army to the coast, where it too could be reinforced with additional troops arriving by sea.  In August he set up camp at Yorktown, on a peninsula between the York and James rivers, and waited for the Royal Navy to arrive.  Lafayette (French) positioned his troops to block an overland escape from the peninsula.

 Washington saw an opportunity.  A French army had just joined the Continental Army in New York.  Washington quickly moved the combined American-French force south, while the French fleet set up a blockade off the Virginia coast.  When the British navy arrived in early September, the French ships drove it off.

 A few days later Washington’s troops arrived to reinforce Lafayette’s force and the Battle of Yorktown began.  In early October the American and French artillery began to pound Yorktown.  Cornwallis now faced an army more than twice the size of his own, blocking his escape from the peninsula.  The French fleet prevented him from being reinforced or removed by sea.  He realized escape was impossible.  On October 18 Cornwallis surrendered to Washington.

 Nearly two years passed between the surrender of Cornwallis and the signing of the peace treaty that ended the war.  Because four nations (GB, France, Spain, and the U.S.) were involved negotiations were long and complex.  The Treaty of Paris (1783) was signed in September.  It had 6 major provisions….

1. GB recognized the independence of the U.S. 2. The north border between the US and Canada were set along the Great Lakes. 3. The Mississippi River was set as the boundary between the new US and Spanish territory to the west.

4. Florida, which Britain had gained from the Spanish after the French and Indian War, was returned to Spain. 5. GB agreed to withdraw its remaining troops from U.S. territory. 6. Congress wanted no Loyalists hurt after the war. This did not happen as they were persecuted by colonists

 For women the Revolution did not produce any immediate gain in political or legal power.  Yet experiences during the war challenged some traditional ideas about women as they took charge of family farms and businesses.  Many women followed their husbands and fathers into battle and cared for them.

 The Revolution promoted the antislavery cause in the North.  Most northern states abolished slavery in the late 1700s and early 1800s.  These states also passed laws severely limiting the legal rights and political power of African Americans.  In the South, it made slavery more restrictive.

 The greatest effect of the Revolution was to spread the idea of liberty, both at home and abroad.  In 1776 the Congress had used Thomas Jefferson’s assertion that “all men are created equal” to help justify a revolution.  This was a radical concept in a world that had long accepted the idea of human inequality.

 Jefferson, like most members of the Continental Congress, probably had no thought of applying this principle to people other than white men.  Over the next two centuries many groups in the U.S. would demand and win greater equality.  Today people in the U.S. and around the world are still discovering the full meaning of the principles the Patriots fought for.