Important+Battles+of+the+War

= ﻿ Important Battles Of The War=

How did the French help

 * In the battle of Yorktown, General Comte de Rochambeau helped Washington plan a strategy against the british.
 * French fleet kept the british from entering Chesaoeake Bay.
 * Cornwallis's army (general of the british army) had 16,000 soldiers.The french allies more than doubled that number.
 * French fleet kept british from providing aid.
 * Since the battle of Trenton the french have been providing weapons for american troops.

**Important Battles In SC**
The battle of cowpens
 * Started in january 17,1781

The battle of camden The battle of kings mountain
 * General Nathanael Greene had divided his army and sent a force of 1,000 men under General Daniel Morgan to the southwest to interept cornallis.
 * At cowpens, Morgan confronted 1,150 troops under Colonel Banastre Tarleton and inflicted a surprise defeat upon them
 * British casualtis about 600 American lost 72.
 * Started in august 16,1780
 * American General Horatio Gates
 * Only 324 British were killed the Americans suffered more than 2,000 casualties and lost large amounts of military battles.
 * The battle ruined the career of gates who was replaced
 * The British stopped a second American attack on camdan under General Nathanael Greene on april 25,1781 at Hobkirks Hill
 * Started in October 7,1780
 * American victory over a loyalist detachment in SC during the British campaign in the south.
 * 2,000 colonial frontiersmen had been gathered from neighbouring states to replace the forces that had been lost in SC at the battle of Charleston ( may 1780) and Camden ( august 1780)
 * The fronttiersmen surrounded the loyalist on kings Mountain and killed or captured almost the entire force

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 * The Battle of Sarotoga is the battle considered the turning point in the war
 * the battle took place September 19, 1777
 * General William Howe lead the British by himshelf
 * General John Burgoyne got stuck in Pennsylvania,so the British force was a lot smaller
 * General Horatio Gates and Benidict Arnold lead the Patriots
 * Beneidict Arnold becomes a traiotor September 25, 1780
 * General Benedict Arnold conspired to turn his command of West Point over to the British.
 * In return, he was to receive money and become a general in the British army.
 * His treason was discovered when Major Andre, his British contact, was captured. Andre, seen here, was reluctantly hung as a spy.
 * then General Horatio Gates was made commander of the southern army
 * they badly loose the Battle Of Camden