People
Rochambeau - french general of the first major regiment of french militia in the us (battle of yorktown), great at siege warfare

George rogers clark: responsible for reclaiming the ohio river valley from british (1778 and 9)

joeseph brant: mohawk indian chief with the british. yep.

John paul jones: scotsman in the us navy who fought bravely but didnt really do anything

John jay: 1 of 3 negotiators who went to paris with ben franklin and john adams

George washington: washington was a political appointment not military, mainly because he was from populous virgina and get south into the war GENERAL FOR ALL THE BATTLES BASICALLY.  yep.

General Nathaniel Greene: fought the battles in the southern colonies, lost all the battles but won the war because he won the public opinion.   disgusted by the treatment that the southerners were having with each other (bayoneting pregnant women and stuff); basically civil war.

Benjamin Franklin: Was the American ambassador to France to attempt to get the French to join them in the Revolution. Franklin did an amazing job and became massively popular, with “pictures of him in every household”. He dressed very plainly(and his clothing represented the “new man” look. This became extremely popular in France (“sheik” Mr. Hall describes it). Franklin does all he could to make himself popular and to get the general public behind the American cause. He set up perfectly to get France involved and once the Americans proved they could win (Saratoga) they joined the American cause.
JOHN ADAMS: Key emember in convincing the congress to adapot the eclaration of independance.
SAM ADAMS: Leader of sons of liberty, helped urge tword revolution, relied up peasants.
Tom jefferson: Wrote declaration of independence.

lafayette: A young rising French general who became very close to Washington and admired him. He was like a son to Washington and they often wrote letters back and forth. While he was not selected to be the general in America with the first regiment of French troops, he thought highly of the American cause and was very eager to help. During the French Revolution, he sent Washington a key to the Bastille.


Battles

Saratoga: Got french into war because the Americans proved that they could win a battle.
Yorktown: (1981) The final major battle where a huge British force was surrendered and effectively ended the war in American (war still occuring in other parts of the world). The British troops were led by Cornwallis after a long campaign of furiously chasing Nathaniel Greene through the southern back country. Exhausted, the British troops retreated to Yorktown, which is on the coast of South Carolina and where Cornwallis thought that he would be safe and could resupply because the British controlled the sea. However, the French general Rochambeau received news from the French navy led by Admiral De Gras, that they would be available for 2-3 weeks to help. Rochambeau then informed Washington, and through amazing coordination, the American and French armies advanced on Yorktown while the French navy defeated the British navy to gain control of the sea outside of Yorktown trapping Cornwallis. Rochambeau, an expert on siege warfare, led the troops in the besieging of Yorktown. Finally, Cornwallis and his troops were forced to surrender, and it is said that the British band was playing the song “The Day the World was Turned Upside-Down”.

Ticondoroga (the plan to split new england from the colonies): Burgoyne came from canada, while Howe would fight his way up along the lake Champlain.  This started well for the British (they captured fort ticondaroga with relative ease) but then there was a 20 mile stretch that they couldnt sail across, but took all there supplies and women and shit with them.  It took them months to make it to where they wanted to go. In the meantime a ton of Hessian's got massacred. the public image of the british was going down because they allied with indians. Meanwhile Howe decided to go try and conquer Philadelphia.  this caused the campaign to fail.

Boston Massacre: Enraged by townshend acts. Brits brought two regemns into boston march 5 1770 massacre happend, 5 killed 6 injured in crowd. J addams got them soldiers off no jail.
lexinton and concord: first Resistance to british army (1775) went bad

Bunker hill: Colonials defended bunker hill (breeds hill) holding supplies the british attacked full frontal and got mowed down but the colonials eventualy ran out of ammo, regardless they came out ahead.

Attack on canada:  americans tried to liberate canada. not good. the end

Long island battle: washington screwed up, tried to fight normal battle, dat fog (fog described as being as thick as pea soup) saved them, could have been end or revolution right there.

Other:

Mercantilism:+ shipbuilders got cash + tobaco monopoly + free protection

- dependance on brits - bebasing - curencry shortage
Stamp Act (plus shugar and navigation): 1765 Tax on paper, had to be stamped. British were mucho debto. Grenville forced taxes on sugar and enforwced importation. Colonials reacted with violence (tar + feather, burning the governor’s house) Petition, nonimportation. Sam Adams plus sons and dauhgters of liberty. Brits said americans had virutal representatio but americans were like hell naw.  Declaritory act in 1766 repealed it but retained the right to make for any reason whatsoever.

Townshend acts:  1767, fake external taxes really internal in response to reppeal of stamp act. import duty such as paper paint glass. included tea tax.
Common sense: Double radical rebpblic plus independance. small thing didnt rule large thing.1776.
Tea Party: Bostonians got pissed and dressed up (crudely) as Indians and boarded ships loaded with taxed tea that  Governor Hutchinson was insisting they buy.  they smashed open 342 chests of tea, and dumped them into the boston harbor. this accounted for a ton of damage and the british put an embargo on boston harbor until the colonialist repayed for the damages done.  when one colonialist was discovered keeping some of the tea (during the dumping itself) they sent him home nekkid.

Intolerable acts: 1774 Passed in resposne to tea party,  Boston port act and quartering act. Shut bown boston harbor and made colonials have to shelter british troops (standing army put in the colonies was a huge deal to the colonists who had an amazing understanding of freedom and rights and how the standing army violated that freedom as stated in the work by Trenchard and Gordon.


Treaty of paris (1783) - treaty that officially signed Independence to the ‘mericans

Treaty of Paris(1763)- treaty ending the French and Indian War

First/second continental congress: first had all but GA, 1774 sept to oct. Sam and john Adams were there and Gwash. Created the Association which was a nonimportation agreement real extreme. 2nd picked Gwash in 1775

Declaration of independance: July 2nd 1776 Richard henry lee’s motion for independance was adopted. the 4th Tjeffs declaration released. tlaked about natural rights of men. 2. tax w/o represent 3.  disposing trail without jury 4. royal veto 5. standing armies 6.mercenaries 7. inciting indians

Patriots vs loyalists: whigs (patriots) versus torries (loyalists): about 1/5th were loyalists