The American Revolution

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Eugenia langanMater academy charter high schoolHialeah gardens, floridaWITH THANKS TO TONY MILLER AND SUSAN POJER

Essential questions:

Narrow:

What were the causes of the American Revolution?

What were the important events of the war?

Broad:

to what extent was there an american identity by the time of the revolution?

how revolutionary was the american revolution?

REVOLUTIONS: CONSERVATIVE AND RADICAL

CONSERVATIVE: REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS STEP INTO SHOES OF OLD LEADERS MEET THE NEW

BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS!

Radical: total change in political / social structure –ex: sans-culottism

LONG- RANGE CAUSES1. EMERGING AMERICAN IDENTITY

(EVOLVING SINCE MID-17TH C!) HECTOR ST-JEAN CRÈVECOEUR’S

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER (PHD 4-9): “What is this American, this new man?”

2. Enlightenment Ideals DEISM AND NATURAL LAW (BASED ON

NEWTONIAN PHYSICS: MAKER OF UNIVERSE = “MASTER

MECHANIC” WHO ESTABLISHED NATURAL LAWS TO RUN IT AND LEFT IT ALONE AFTER THAT

OUR “FOUNDING FATHERS” WERE DEISTS, NOT CHRISTIANS!

ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER MOST INFLUENTIAL ON AMERICA: JOHN LOCKE

LOCKE’S CONCEPT OF NATURAL LAW RIGHTS AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN HIS SECOND TREATISE ON

GOVERNMENT LOCKE ARGUED:1) HUMANS HAVE NATURAL RIGHTS TO LIFE,

LIBERTY AND PROPERTY2) TO PROTECT THOSE RIGHTS, PEOPLE

ENTER INTO SOCIAL CONTRACT AND ESTABLISH GOVERNMENT

3) IF GOVERNMENT TAKES AWAY THOSE RIGHTS, PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO REVOLUTION

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3. RESENTMENT OF BRITAIN FRENCH & INDIAN WAR/ PROCLAMATION

OF 1763

END OF SALUTARY NEGLECT – INTERFERENCE IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS

TAXATION!

4. “THE RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN”:

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

RIGHT TO ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES

RIGHT TO TRIALS BY JURY IN COMMON LAW COURTS, RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

4. BRITAIN’S TAX LAWS PROTESTS AGAINST BRITAIN

SUGAR ACT (1764)

STAMP ACT (1765)

TOWNSHEND DUTIES (1767)

TEA ACT (1772)

N.B. TAXES HAD TO BE PAID IN SPECIE!

COLONIAL REACTION TO TAX LAWS

RESISTANCE TO BRITISH AUTHORITY

BOYCOTTS

CONGRESSES, PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT AND THE CROWN

RIOTS AND THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE

SUGAR ACT (1764) FIRST EXPLICIT TAX LAW REDUCED DUTY ON SUGAR IMPORTED

FROM NON-BRITISH COLONIES PROVIDED FOR TRIALS OF VIOLATORS IN ADMIRALTY COURT (NO JURY) AUTHORIZED COURTS TO ISSUE WRITS OF ASSISTANCE(SEARCH WARRANTS)

JAMES OTIS – WEALTHY LAWYER/POLITICIAN ARGUED V. WRITS/ STAMP ACT CONGRESS/ AUTHOR REVOLUTIONARY PAMPHLETS

“FATHER OF THE REVOLUTION”

POLITICIAN – REPRESENTED BOSTON IN ASSEMBLY! SUGAR ACT HURT ONLY N.E. DISTILLERS/ SMUGGLERS BUT ADAMS ARGUED AGAINST IT AS “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” 1772 PORTRAIT BY JOHN

SINGLETON COPLEY

Stamp Act (1765)

STAMP REQUIRED ON ALL DOCUMENTS – AFFECTED CITY PEOPLE MORE THAN OTHERS (ESP. PEOPLE ON FRONTIER!)

ABOVE – ACTUAL STAMPS, AND VERSION IN COLONIAL POLITICAL CARTOON

COLONIAL REACTION TO STAMP ACT NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENTS = BOYCOTTS

OF BRITISH GOODS

VIOLENT PROTESTS - (SONS OF LIBERTY) – EXAMPLE = MOB BROKE INTO, VANDALIZED OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON

DID SAM ADAMS STIR UP THE MOB? SOMEONE DID!

NON-VIOLENT PROTEST – STAMP ACT CONGRESS = MAJOR STEP UNION

Resolutions of the

Stamp Act Congress (1765) 1ST. THAT HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN THESE COLONIES

OWE THE SAME ALLEGIANCE TO THE CROWN OF GREAT BRITAIN THAT IS OWING FROM HIS SUBJECTS BORN WITHIN THE REALM, AND ALL DUE SUBORDINATION TO THAT AUGUST BODY, THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN.

2D. THAT HIS MAJESTY'S LIEGE SUBJECTS IN THESE COLONIES ARE ENTITLED TO ALL THE INHERENT RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF HIS NATURAL BORN SUBJECTS WITHIN THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN.

3D. THAT IT IS INSEPARABLY ESSENTIAL TO THE FREEDOM OF A PEOPLE, AND THE UNDOUBTED RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN, THAT NO TAXES SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON THEM, BUT WITH THEIR OWN CONSENT, GIVEN PERSONALLY, OR BY THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.

Repeal and Declaratory Act (1766)

“PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, HAD, HATH, AND OF RIGHT OUGHT TO HAVE, FULL POWER AND AUTHORITY TO MAKE LAWS AND STATUTES OF SUFFICIENT FORCE AND VALIDITY TO BIND THE COLONIES AND PEOPLE OF AMERICA, SUBJECTS OF THE CROWN OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER.”

Townshend REVENUE Acts (1767) IMPOSED IMPORT DUTIES ON LEAD,

PAINT, GLASS, PAPER AND TEA (BRITISH GOODS – PURE TAX!)

THIS HURT EVERYONE SOME – BUT MOSTLY PEOPLE WHO COULD AFFORD THOSE THINGS!

CHARLES “CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE” TOWNSHEND, CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER – THOUGHT COLONISTS WOULD ACCEPT“INDIRECT TAX”

JOHN DICKINSON – IN HIS LETTERS FROM A PENNSYLVANIA FARMER (PHD 4-5) HE ARGUED THAT TOWNSHEND ACTS WERE “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” AND CALLED FOR NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENTS

HE WAS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST MEN IN THE COLONIES AND A POLITICIAN

“THE BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISE MAN”BRITISH POLITICAL CARTOON

DEPICTS SONS OF LIBERTY TARRING AND FEATHERING OF TAX COLLECTOR – ACTUAL EVENT

PAUL REVERE’S ENGRAVING OF BRITISH TROOPS ARRIVING IN BOSTON, 1768

Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

BOSTON MOB STARTED IT

5 COLONISTS KILLED, INCLUDING RUNAWAY SLAVE CRISPUS ATTUCKS

SAM ADAMS NAMED IT “BOSTON MASSACRE”

CAUSE CÉLÉBRE THROUGHOUT COLONIES

COMPARE PAUL REVERE’S DRAWIMG OF “BOSTON MASSACRE (TOP) WITH 1856 DEPICTION. WHAT’S DIFFERENT? WHY?

PAUL REVERE BY JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1768)

LAWYER JOHN ADAMS, LEADING PATRIOT, DEFENDED THE BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO SHOT COLONISTS AT “BOSTON MASSACRE” AND GOT THEM OFF!

HE BECAME AMBASSADOR, VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT OF U.S.

The Gaspée Incident (1772)

RHODE ISLAND COLONISTS SACKED AND BURNED BRITISH REVENUE FRIGATE THAT RAN AGROUND NEAR PROVIDENCE

Committees of Correspondence

SAM ADAMS’S IDEA PURPOSE = WARN NEIGHBORING

COLONIES ABOUT INCIDENTS WITH BRITISH

BY 1773, EVERY COLONY HAD ONE AS PART OF COLONIAL LEGISLATURE

STEP TO UNION – AND SEDITIOUS!

Tea Act (1773) REDUCED TAX ON BRITISH EAST INDIA

COMPANY TEA

MEAN CHEAPER TEA FOR COLONISTS

HURT N.E. TEA MERCHANTS WHO SOLD DUTCH TEA

Boston Tea Party (1774)

SONS OF LIBERTY DUMPED 342 TONS OF TEA INTO BOSTON HARBOR

The Coercive or REPRESSIVE or Intolerable

Acts (1774)

LORD NORTH

1. BOSTON PORT ACT

2. MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT ACT

3. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT

4. QUEBEC ACT

Quebec Act (1774)MADE LAND SPECULATORS UNHAPPY

COLONISTS FEARED BRITAIN WAS TRYING TO RECRUIT FRENCH CANADIANS TO FIGHT ON ITS SIDE IF WAR OCCURRED

First Continental Congress (1774)

55 DELEGATES FROM 12 COLONIES (ALL BUT GEORGIA)

UNICAMERAL 1 VOTE/ COLONY

AGENDA HOW TO RESPOND TO THE COERCIVE ACTS & THE QUEBEC ACT?

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CARPENTERS’ HALL, PHILADELPHIA, WHERE CONGRESS MET

CONGRESS DOESN’T GET TODECIDE!

THE WAR BEGINS

BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, APRIL 19, 1775

700 BRITISH REGULARS SET OUT FROM BOSTON TO TAKE ARSENAL OF COLONIAL MILITIA AT CONCORD

COLONISTS KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN ADVANCE – JOHN ADAMS, JOHN HANCOCK, PAUL REVERE, ET AL. WERE IN CONCORD THE WEEK BEFORE – BUT THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHEN BRITISH WOULD ATTACK

“The British Are Coming”

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear,Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. . .” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1861) BUT REVERE WAS CAPTURED EN ROUTE!WILLIAM DAWES WARNED THE MILITIAMEN!

77 MILITIAMEN MET REDCOATS AT LEXINGTON, 8 KILLED, FELL BACK TOWARD BOSTON

AT CONCORD, 250 MILITIAMEN TURNED BACK 3 COMPANIES OF REDCOATS AT OLD NORTH BRIDGE

19TH C. PAINTING OF BATTLE OF LEXINGTON

ACCORDING TO RALPH WALDO EMERSON IN “CONCORD HYMN”:“BY THE RUDE BRIDGE THAT ARCHED THE FLOODTHEIR FLAGS TO APRIL’S BREEZE UNFURLED,HERE ONCE THE EMBATTLED FARMERS STOODAND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD.”

AFTER COLONIAL VICTORY AT CONCORD, MILITIAMEN (JOINED BY ABOUT 3,500 MORE) CHASE SURVIVING REDCOATS BACK TO BOSTON AND LAY SEIGE TO THE CITY!

SEIGE LASTS 11 MONTHS . . .

CONTEMPORANEOUS MAP OF BATTLES, SIEGE

MEANWHILE, THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS CONVENED, MAY 1775 – IMMEDIATELY DUBBED MILITIA THE “CONTINENTAL ARMY” AND APPOINTED GEORGE WASHINGTON GENERAL C-IN-C

JULY 8, 1775 CONGRESS ADOPTED THE OLIVE BRANCH PETITION:"...the apprehensions which now oppress our hearts with unspeakable grief, being once removed, your Majesty will find your faithful subjects on this continent ready and willing at all times...to assert and maintain the rights and interests of your Majesty and of our Mother Country."

The debate over independencethomas Paine, Common Sense

IN THE EARLIEST ESSAYS IN THE AMERICAN CRISIS, PAINE ARGUED FOR INDEPENDENCE. HE CONTINUED TO PUBLISH THROUGHOUT THE WAR IN SUPPORT OF THE REVOLUTION

JULY 4, 1776, CONGRESS ADOPTS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – FINALLY!

INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA

BEN FRANKLIN, JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON WORKING ON THE DECLARATION – JEFFERSON WAS THE MAIN AUTHOR

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

PREAMBLE TO DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Whose ideas are these?

THE DECLARATION CONTINUES WITH A LIST OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST KING GEORGE III, INCLUDING

HE TAXED COLONISTS WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

HE QUARTERED SOLDIERS IN COLONISTS’ HOMES

HE DISSOLVED COLONIAL LEGISLATURES

HE TURNED “THE MERCILESS INDIAN SAVAGES” AGAINST COLONISTS ON THE FRONTIERS

READ THE DECLARATION!

UNDER THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS (1689), THE KING WAS A FIGUREHEAD

PARLIAMENT IS SOVEREIGN AND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER IS THE PRIME MINISTER

GEORGE III

WHY DID THE AUTHORS OF THE DECLARATION BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE KING?

ABIGAIL ADAMS:

SHE WROTE TO HER HUSBAND JOHN WHEN HE WAS WORKING ON THE DECLARATION, “REMEMBER THE LADIES.”

HE WROTE BACK SAYING MEN WOULD NOT BE RULED BY “THE DESPOTISM OF THE PETTICOAT.”

SHE WROTE BACK TO HIM, “REMEMBER THAT ARBITRARY POWER IS LIKE MOST OTHER THINGS THAT ARE VERY HARD, LIABLE TO BE BROKEN.”

(PHD 5-5)

THE WAR: 1775 – 1781 (THE FIGHTING)

1775 – 1783 (FROM START TO TREATY OF PARIS)

BATTLES TO KNOW:1) LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, APRIL 19, 17752) FORT TICONDEROGA, MAY 10, 17753) SEIGE OF BOSTON APRIL 19, 1775 – MARCH 17,

1776 -- INCLUDES BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, 17754) NEW YORK/ NEW JERSEY, AUGUST – OCTOBER

17765) TRENTON, DECEMBER 26, 17766) SARATOGA, JUNE – OCTOBER 17777) YORKTOWN, OCTOBER 19, 1781

REVOLUTIONARY WAR: GREAT BRITAIN

ADVANTAGES LARGE ECONOMY BASED ON WORLD EMPIRE. WELL ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT - CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY. PROFESSIONAL ARMY LARGE ROYAL NAVY (ALTHOUGH CHALLENGED FOR SUPREMACY BY

FRENCH NAVY.) DISADVANTAGES

LONG LINES OF COMMUNICATION FIGHTING ON “FOREIGN” SOIL

AMERICAN COLONIES ADVANTAGES

FIGHTING ON “HOME TURF” READY MARKET OF RESOURCES

DISADVANTAGES WEAK GOVERNMENT: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. ECONOMY DESIGNED TO SUPPORT BRITAIN IN MERCANTILIST SYSTEM. DISUNITY - LOYALISTS OR TORIES MAKE UP ONE

THIRD OF POPULATION. AND ONLY ABOUT 45% SUPPORT REVOLUTION

FRANKLIN’S CARTOON WAS RE-CIRCULATED DURING THE REVOLUTION

FAILED TO PERSUADE ABOUT 1/3 OF COLONISTS, WHO WERE LOYALISTS - MOSTLY IN THE SOUTH

ALSO FAILED TO PERSUADE EVEN PATRIOTS TO SUPPORT WAR WITH $$ - STATE LEGISLATURES STINGY THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WAR

WHY WAS THE SOUTH LARGELY LOYAL TO BRITAIN?

THE SOUTH WAS ABSOLUTELY DEPENDENT ON EXPORTING ITS CASH CROPS TO BRITAIN!

THIS WILL BECOME A SOURCE OF SECTIONAL CONFLICT AS THE NORTH BECOMES INCREASINGLY INDUSTRIALIZED CIVIL WAR!

BRITISH COMMAND OF THE SEA

BLOCKADE AMERICAN PORTS. TRANSPORT TROOPS TO AREAS OF REBELLION

(MOBILITY). HUDSON RIVER VALLEY

CUT OFF NEW ENGLAND FROM MIDDLE AND SOUTHERN COLONIES.

RALLY LOYALIST SUPPORT IN SOUTH

AMERICAN WAR OF ATTRITION: WEAR DOWN BRITISH FORCES. DIPLOMACY

GAIN EUROPEAN ALLIES WITH LARGE NAVIES - FRANCE.

COMMERCE RAIDING/ PRIVATEERING

STRATEGIES:

CAPTURE OF FT. TICONDEROGA BY ETHAN ALLEN AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS W/ BENEDICT ARNOLD, MAY 10, 1775

BRITISH COMMANDER HANDED OVER THE FORT W/O FIGHTING

SIGNIFICANCE: ARTILLERY AT FT. TICONDEROGA BOSTON (WILL ALLOW WASHINGTON TO TAKE CITY)

SEIGE OF BOSTON – APRIL 19, 1775 – MARCH 17, 1776

BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, 1775:

WAVES OF REDCOATS, UNDER BRITISH GENERAL HOWE ATTACK 1200 AMERICANS IN FORTIFICATIONS ON BREED’S HILL

BRITISH SUFFERED 1,024 CASUALTIES (INCLUDING 62 OFFICERS – ABOUT 224 DEATHS) PUSHED AMERICANS BACK TO BUNKER HILL

PYRRHIC VICTORY FOR BRITISH STALEMATE AFTER HIGH CASUALTIES

SHOWED COLONISTS COULD DEFEND AGAINST BRITS.

(REMEMBER, OLIVE BRANCH PETITION IS A MONTH LATER!)

BREED'S HILL

EARLY MARCH, 1776 – AMERICAN COLONEL HENRY KNOX ARRIVES IN BOSTON WITH THE ARTILLERY CAPTURED FROM FT. TICONDEROGA

MAY 17, 1776 - WASHINGTON DEFEATS BRITISH UNDER HOWE AT BOSTON, BRITISH EVACUATE VIA SEA

BUT THEN THE TIDE TURNS:

NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY

HOWE AND CORNWALLIS LANDS ON LONG ISLAND – AUGUST 27, 1776 BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND (LARGEST OF WAR)

CORNWALLIS DRIVES WASHINGTON BACK FIRST TO BROOKLYN, THEN MANHATTAN, THEN ACROSS NEW JERSEY AND ACROSS DELAWARE TO PHILADELPHIA BY DECEMBER

CORNWALLIS

AT THAT POINT, THOMAS PAINE WROTE INTHE AMERICAN CRISIS:

“These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

CHRISTMAS, 1776 – WASHINGTON CROSSED DELAWARE FOR SNEAK ATTACK ON BRITISH WINTER GARRISON AT TRENTON

TRENTON, DECEMBER 26, 1776

EARLY-MORNING SNEAK ATTACK WASHINGTON’S MEN CAPTURE ABOUT 1,000 VERY SURPRISED HESSIAN MERCENARIES AT GARRISON

CORNWALLIS HEADED TOWARD AMERICAN TROOPS JANUARY 3, 1777 DECISIVE AMERICAN VICTORY AT PRINCETON

SIGNIFICANCE = NOW MORE AMERICANS THINK VICTORY IS POSSIBLE – STATES BEGIN TO COUGH UP A LITTLE $$ -- BUT NOT MUCH!

(CONTINENTAL CONGRESS BORROWED TO FUND WAR – SO DID SOME NORTHERN STATES)

STATUE OF WASHINGTON IN WASHINGTON CIRCLE, D.C. AND PAINTING COMMEMORATE HIS VICTORY AT TRENTON

WHY TRENTON?

HIS LAST “HEROIC” VICTORY

NEXT SIGNIFICANT BATTLE = HOWE TOOK PHILADELPHIA SEPT. ’77 BUT WASHINGTON IS STILL C-IN-C

VALLEY FORGE WASHINGTON AND 12,000 CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS

SPEND WINTER OF 1777-1788 AT VALLEY FORGE (ABOUT 20 MI. FROM PHILADELPHIA)

SHORTAGES OF FOOD, UNIFORMS, SHOES, UNSANITARY CONDITIONS 2,500 MEN DIED OF DISEASES AND STARVATION OVER THE WINTER

STATES JUST WOULDN’T COUGH UP MUCH $$ FOR TROOPS!

POPULAR IMAGES OF VALLEY FORGE(N.B. WASHINGTON WAS PROBABLY A DEIST – HE REFUSED TO ATTEND CHURCH!)

WHAT HE SAID ABOUT VALLEY FORGE:“Naked and starving as they areWe cannot enough admireThe incomparable Patience and Fidelity of the Soldiery”

THE TURNING POINT: SARATOGA (JUNE-OCTOBER 1777)

BRITISH, UNDER BURGOYNE, SET OUT TO TAKE HUDSON VALLEY – PATHWAY FOR INVASION FROM CANADA

DECISIVE AMERICAN VICTORY UNDER GENERALS HORATIO GATES AND BENEDICT ARNOLD ONEIDA INDIANS FOUGHT FOR AMERICANS;

REST OF IROQUOIS FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN

BURGOYNE AND THOUSANDS OF BRITISH TROOPS (INCLUDING HESSIANS) SURRENDERED, OCTOBER 17, 1777

HORATIO GATES, BY GILBERT STUART

RIGHT, “GENTLEMAN JOHNNY” BURGOYNE BY JOSHUA REYNOLDS

LEFT, THE SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE BY JOHN TRUMBULL, A MINOR BUT PROLIFIC AMERCAN PAINTER

SARATOGA IS THE TURNING POINT BECAUSE IT PERSUADED FRANCE (AND SPAIN AMERICANS COULD WIN. FRANCE SENT $$$$$ AND ENTERED THE WAR ON AMERICAN SIDE, SPAIN SENT $$

BEN FRANKLIN HAD BEEN IN PARIS SINCE 1776 AS AMBASSADOR , TRYING TO PERSUADE FRANCE TO BACK AMERICAN – COULDN’T GET MEETING WITH LOUIS XVI – BUT HE WAS VERY POPULAR IN PARIS AS “A NATURAL MAN” AND SCIENTIST

AFTER SARATOGA, LOUIS SUMMONED FRANKLIN TO VERSAILLES – “AND THE REST IS HISTORY” -- GREAT FOR U.S., DISASTROUS FOR LOUIS!

THE ENLIGHTENED NATURAL MAN IN PARIS

IF Y0U DIDN’T READ THIS WHEN YOU WERE A LITTLE KID, YOU MISSED OUT! READ IT NOW!

FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE

LAFAYETTEROCHAMBEAU

 COMTE DE VERGENNES

FRANCO-AMERICAN TREATY OF 1778

PERMANENT, DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE

FRANCE AGREED TO FIGHT UNTIL U.S. INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED

NO SEPARATE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BRITAIN

WHY WE NEEDED FRANCE: WE HAD NO REAL NAVYBUT WE HAD NAVY FLAGS!

Hoisted at the main mast by Continental Navy Commander in Chief Esek Hopkins (3 December 1775)

“BUMPS IN THE ROAD” -- POLITICS

“CONWAY CABAL,” 1777-78 - AMERICAN GENERALS DISSATISFIED WITH WASHINGTON’S COMMAND TRIED TO GET HIM REPLACED BY HORATIO GATES -- DIDN’T WORK – WASHINGTON TOO POPULAR W/ FRIENDS IN CONGRESS

BENEDICT ARNOLD’S ATTEMPT TO TURN WEST POINT OVER TO BRITISH, 1780 – HE WAS PASSED OVER FOR PROMOTIONS, CONGRESS TRIED TO SHAKE HIM DOWN FOR $$

IT WORKED OUT OK FOR ARNOLD, NOT OK FOR MAJOR ANDRé (HE WAS HUNG)

NORTHERNTHEATRE

WHO WAS WINNING?

SOUTHERN THEATRE

WHO WAS WINNING?

GUERILLA WARFARE IN THE CAROLINAS

FRANCIS MARION THOMAS SUMTERANDREW PICKENS

THE END – YORKTOWN , OCTOBER 19, 1781– A LUCKY BREAK

IT HAD BEEN TOUCH AND GO IN THE SOUTHERN THEATER

EX. SPRING 1781: COWPENS AMERICANS, GUILFORD COURTHOUSE BRITISH

BUT CORNWALLIS (NOW C-IN-C) HEADED TOWARD COAST AND LET HIMSELF GET TRAPPED ON YORKTOWN CAPE

WASHINGTON AND ROCHAMBEAU MARCH THEIR ARMIES FROM NY TO VIRGINIA

ABOUT 20,000 COMBINED AMERICAN/ FRENCH TROOPS HAD ABOUT 9,000 BRITISH TROOPS TRAPPED ON THE CAPE

IF BRITISH NAVY HAD ARRIVED FIRST, CORNWALLIS AND HIS MEN WOULD HAVE ESCAPED TO CONTINUE FIGHTING FRENCH FLEET UNDER DE GRASSE GOT THERE

FIRST CORNWALLIS HAD TO SURRENDER

“THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN”

The surrender of cornwallis by trumbull, of course

TREATY OF PARIS, 1783

AMERICAN DELEGATION : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

JOHN ADAMSJOHN JAYHENRY LAURENS

TERMS OF TREATY OF PARIS, 1783

BRITISH RECOGNITION OF UNITED STATESU.S. GRANTED TERRITORY EAST OF

MISSISSIPPILOYALIST PROPERTY TO BE RETURNEDPRE-WAR COLONIAL DEBTS TO BE PAIDUS FISHING RIGHTS OFF GRAND BANKS FLORIDA RETURNED TO SPAIN BY

SEPARATE TREATY

COSTS OF WAR:

CASUALTIES: 50,000 , INC. 25,000 DEATHS (MIL. & CIV. COMBINED)

WAR DEBT: FEDERAL - $37 MILLION STATES -- $114 MILLION

AND THERE OUR TROUBLES BEGIN . . .