Part 8:The American Revolution
Cocoa Beach jr/sr high 8th grade Mrs. Reddick Midterm Study Guide 2007-2008
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- Benedict Arnold
- he was an officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga / also was a traitor
- Hessians
- a native or inhabitant of Hesse, any of the Hessian mercenaries who fought for the British in the Revolutionary war
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- the treaty that ended the Revolutionary war, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation
- George Rogers Clark
- when he was 25 in 1778 he gathered 175-200 men and took over a british post without a fight, later capturing Fort Sackville
- George Washington
- president from 1789-1797/ born in Virginia/ birth: feb 22, 1732 - died: dec 14, 1799
- Battle of Saratoga
- a series of conflicts between British soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary war
- Battle of Yorktown
- the last major battle of the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the surrender of British forces in 1781
- John Paul Jones
- 1747-1792, the most famous naval officer - John Paul, he killed the leader of a mutiny and fled to America to escape charges later adding Jones to his name
- guerilla warfare
- guerila - a soldier who weakens the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks
- What was the British strategy?
- to seize the Hudson River Valley
- What were the difficultiesfaced by George Washington?
- at the age of 16 he was a surveyor, he hunted for food and slept outdoors