1. Chapter 7 Section 3
The Path to Victory

2. The War Moves South 1778 More Loyalists in Southern colonies
British capture Savannah and Charleston

3. Guerilla War Because the Americans had the smaller less equipped army:
Forests or towns instead of open battle fields
Attack and retreat
Ambush

4. End of the War
Battle of Yorktown – French Navy and American Army trap the largest British Army
October 19, 1781
Treaty of Paris (1783) officially gives America its independence.
How did Americans win?

5. Ho Chi Minh once remarked about his country’s fight against both the French and the United States the following; “We will be like the elephant and the tiger. When the elephant is strong and rested and near his base we will retreat. And if the tiger ever pauses, the elephant will impale him on his tusks. But the tiger will not pause and the elephant will die of exhaustion and loss of blood.”
Base your answers to the following on the American Revolution
Elephant: British or Colonists?
What are some words you would use to describe an elephant?
Tiger: British or Colonists?
What are some words you would use to describe a tiger?
In your own words. How can the tiger defeat the elephant?
Based on this quote, how can the Colonists defeat the British? What type of tactics would you use as the commander of the American Colonists?
What type of warfare is being discussed?
Pay attention to examples from Chapter 7 that show the American Colonists using these strategies.