The War Expands Some Europeans decided to Help America. As the War continued it spread to the sea and to the Frontier!

Key Terms and Key People Key Terms Ally Bayonet Desert Privateer Key People Marquis de Lafayette James Forten John Paul Jones

World War: The Prequel  France Secretly begins to help the Colonial troops to defeat Britain and After Saratoga King Louis XVI began to aid American troops in the war  France also got Spain to help American Troops preventing the British from attacking from the southwest  France and Spain forced Britain to fight on MANY fronts, limiting the troops in the colonies

Have Bayonet…will travel  European Troops, like Marquis de Lafayette, began to help the colonial troops and bringing over a 6000 man French army  Germans such as Baron de Kalb and Baron von Steuben helped fight in the war and train the American Army  Steuben Helped turn the Army into a well trained fighting force and taught them important skills like using the Bayonet  Von Steuben turned the troops into a Model Army

All this in Parma??  General Washington and his troops are forced to set up camp at Valley Forge  The Troops at Valley Forge had little supplies and were badly beaten  Many of the troops at Valley Forge would need amputations, would starve, get sick, while many would die

Brothers in Arms  With congress slow to help, citizens, mostly women, would help the soldiers supplying them with food, clothes, and supplies  The temptation for soldiers to desert the army was high but many stayed for the love of their country and for Washington

A Hair Raising Battle  George Rogers Clark would lead an army in the frontier to capture the British posts on the western frontier  Clark made his way down to Kaskaskia, gathering troops, and was able to capture the fort with little fighting  Clark was also able to capture Fort Sackville from the British and defeated Henry Hamilton after traveling through icy, flooded swamps

Mistakes by the Lake?  Hamilton was not willing to Give up the fort, but Clark used deception to trick Britain into thinking he had a large army  Clark would also execute many Native Americans who had scalped the American troops to force a surrender  While the Colonists controlled most of the Great Lakes region, Lake Erie and Detroit remained under British Control

Do you SEA what I SEA  Great Britain took control of the Coastline by controlling the Atlantic Ocean  Through the use of Privateers, America started to attack British ships  The Privateers began to grow as volunteers, like James Forten, began join the war to fight the British

Turning the Tide  John Paul Jones Would lead a Naval Patrol against a British Convoy protecting supply ships  Jones would attack the Larger British Fleet ramming into the ships to damage them  Jones would Defeat the British Ships and sail home on the British ship he had just overtaken  While winning small battles at sea and angering the British, war would have to be won on the Homeland

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