Transcript Valley Forge 1777 to 1778

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
PowerPoint: Santiago Serrano
Lexington and Concord: Zachary Hallman
Ticonderoga: Andrea Chandler
Bunker Hill: Max Trost
Battle of Quebec: Memory Black
Battle of Princeton: Tyler Rice
Battle of Monmouth: San Fatah
Valley Forge + Conditions of soldiers: Sam Yeager
British War Strategies + Yorktown: William Russell
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON
AND CONCORD
On April 19, 1775 the British General Gage sent regiments of British troops to Lexington in
order to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock. At Concord was the supposed gun powder
storage.
The info was leaked by American spies, and the Minute Men were ready. A myth was Paul Revere
and other riders rode to Lexington and Concord and yelled “The British are coming!”
The word spread and all the Minute Men were ready for the British. Besides the fact that they
were outnumbered, they stood strong for a while, then the British started to stomp on them. The
first bullet that whizzed by there heads, was the shot heard round the world.
The Americans were better readied at Concord and totally destroyed the British. As the British
retreated they were ambushed by more Minute Men on the trails. The Americans had won.
TICONDEROGA
 Slide 1
 Fort Ticonderoga
 Date: July 6th,1777
 Place: Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, New York State on the
United States of America
 Who won: British
 The Americans withdrew Ticonderoga leaving it to the British
THE BATTLE OF BUNKER
HILL
 On June 17,1775, British troops stormed bunker hill by climbing and fighting up
it while heroic patriots stood their ground. The patriots fought long and hard while
being bombed and shelled by ships and musket fire.
 The British general William Howe woke up to find the colonist built a 6 foot
wall of dirt at the top of bunker hill and at that moment he realized the colonist did
more in one night than his men could do in months. General Howe gathered his
ships and bombarded the hill non stop letting the cannons balls fill the green grass
on the hill turning it to mushy over turned earth.
THE MID DAY ATTACK
 Around noon on June 17,1775 the British bombarded the hill with
everything they had until the colonist couldn’t take it anymore and to
find out they used all of their gunpowder, leaving them one option
and one option only to make a tactical retreat. We didn’t win The
Battle of Bunker Hill but it did add fuel to the fire for a revolution of
independence and freedom from the Union Jacks.
VALLEY FORGE
 The commander of the British army, William Howe, moved 15,000 British
troops to take Philadelphia.
 Washington was forced to retreat about 25 miles from the city to a strategic area
that was protected by a river and tall hills. It was called Valley Forge.
 Washington had to wait in Valley Forge from December 19, 1777 all the way to
June 19, 1778.
WHAT WERE THE
CONDITIONS LIKE?
 Everyone was cold and tired.
 There was little food, so soldiers would have to eat bland biscuits.
 Most soldiers did not have boots or coats.
 It smelled very bad, mostly because soldiers would urinate everywhere.
 Diseases like smallpox, typhus, and dysentery killed many soldiers.
 There were around 2,500 deaths, and several more soldiers ran away.
HOW DID THIS STRUGGLE
END?
 Eventually, congress sent some people to inspect the status of the army. The
congressmen saw how bad the conditions were. During late February and early
March, more supplies were sent.
 Also, a new quartermaster was assigned, and he did a better job of distributing
supplies.
 France made an alliance with America. The British evacuated Philadelphia due
to the new French threat, because the city was hard to defend.
T H E BAT T L E O F P R I N C E T O N
F R I DAY, J A N UA RY 0 3 , 1 7 7 7
TYLER RICE
Britain
Captain William DeLaPlace, Charles Mawhood
Force: 1200
Killed: 100
Wounded: 70
Captured: 280
U.S.
George Washington
Force: 4500
Killed: 25
Wounded: 40
Captured: 0
 Princeton, New Jersey. The battle of Princeton was a battle to
where George Washington’s army defeated Great Britain. The battle
of Princeton lasted for about 10 days. The United States out
numbered the British Army. But yet the American had no nobody
captured, very few wounded, and very few killed. The British viewed
the battle of Trenton and Princeton a minor American victories. How
the Americans gained more ammo and supply is after the victories
raid the abandoned wagons that carried the ammo supply.
BATTLE OF MONMOUTH
The Battle of Rhode Island, also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill[3] and the Siege of Newport, took place on August 29,
1778. Continental Army and militia forces under the command of General John Sullivan were withdrawing to the northern
part of Aquidneck Island after abandoning their siege of Newport, Rhode Island, when the British forces in Newport sortied,
supported by recently arrived Royal Navy ships, and attacked the retreating Americans. The battle ended inconclusively, but
the Continental forces afterward withdrew to the mainland, leaving Aquidneck Island in British hands.
The battle took place in the aftermath of the first attempt at cooperation between French and American forces following
France's entry into the war as an American ally. The operations against Newport were to have been made in conjunction with
a French fleet and troops; these were frustrated in part by difficult relations between the commanders, and a storm that
damaged both French and British fleets shortly before joint operations were to begin.
The battle was also notable for the participation of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, a locally recruited segregated regiment of
African Americans. It was the only major military action to include a racially segregated unit on the American side in the war.
 The fighting cost Sullivan 30 killed, 138 wounded, and 44 missing, while Pigot's
forces sustained 38 killed, 210 wounded, and 12 missing. On the night of August 30/31,
American forces departed Aquidneck Island and moved to new positions at Tiverton and
Bristol. Arriving at Boston, d'Estaing was met with a cool reception by the city's residents
as they had learned of the French departure through Sullivan's irate letters. The situation
was improved somewhat by Lafayette who had been sent north by the American
commander in the hopes of securing the fleet's return. Though many in the leadership
were angered by the French actions at Newport, Washington and Congress worked to
calm passions with the goal of preserving the new alliance.
 The Battle of Rhode Island began on August 9, 1778, when 11,000 Continental line troops
and militia crossed Howland’s Ferry to reinforce the state militia in preparation for an attack on
the British in that state. Meanwhile, the French fleet under d’Estaing blocked the small naval
force at Narragansett Bay. When a larger British fleet arrived to challenge the French, they
prepared to do battle, but a hurricane (August 13–14) scattered the ships and severely damaged
both fleets. The French sailed to Boston for repairs, leaving the Americans without naval back-up
or the anticipated French landing troops. The Americans attempted to withdraw, the British
troops attacked on August 29. The 1st Rhode Island, a black regiment, took part in the action.
After a twelve-day siege, the Americans realized they could not penetrate the British lines without
naval back-up from the French. They were forced to withdraw, leaving the British in place..
THE INVASION OF CANADA
The Invasion of Canada in 1775 was the first major military initiative by the newly
formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the
campaign was to gain military control of the British Province of Quebec, and convince
the French-speaking Canadians to join the revolution on the side of the Thirteen
Colonies. One expedition left Fort Ticonderoga under Richard Montgomery, besieged
and captured Fort St. Johns, and very nearly captured British General Guy Carleton when
taking Montreal. The other expedition left Cambridge, Massachusetts under Benedict
Arnold, and traveled with great difficulty through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec
City. The two forces joined there, but were defeated at the Battle of Quebec in December
1775.
 Smallpox was big at the time, and greatly affected the Loyalists more than the
British.
 The British had many more troops than the Loyalists.
 America didn’t have any, or any that I could find. They had the disadvantage in
almost every way possible.
 Britain. Britain had many more troops, the troops were stronger than the
American troops, who were infected with smallpox, and they had backup coming
along the way, forcing America to retreat.
B R I T I S H S T R AT I G I E S
The original British plan to win the war against the American colonists was proposed by
General Howe, who commanded the British troops after the Battle of Bunker Hill. The
British would march north up the Hudson River Valley and join forces with the British army
moving south out of Montreal. This would isolate New England from the rest of the
colonies and with the support of the British Navy; Massachusetts could be invaded and
overtaken from the West. If the Americans did not surrender, the British army would then
turn south through New York. The British also relied on help from foreign mercenaries,
Hessians, to win the war. These were professional soldiers hired to fight in the colonies. In
the South, the British also expected help from the large number of Loyalists in that area.
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