AMERICAN REVOLUTION Advantages disadvantages o Colonies Adv Knew landscape practice from French Indian war guerilla tactics decentralized country no specific place for Brits to take over French offered supplies early in the war after battle of Saratoga French aided with navy and army French end up having their own revolution due to them helping America and going into debt Spanish and Dutch helped primarily with supplies Dis don t have a navy o Britain Adv most powerful navy in the world large population to pull from many navy and army personnel Dis not able to stop merchant ships from smuggling goods into the colonies Battle at Saratoga in fall of 1777 TURNING POINT OF THE WAR o Two British armies convene in NY State but they are over run and end up surrendering o Ends the war in the northern part of the colonies o This is when the French decide to become fully invested into the war military and NAVY at Saratoga personnel Yorktown 1781 o Final battle in am Rev o Lord Cornwallis takes his soldiers to the middle colonies goes to Yorktown on the Chesapeake bay o Americans had navy back up French o That s the end of the AMERICAN REV whoop Treaty of Paris 1783 o British and colonists come to terms o British give America its independence and secedes the land east of the Mississippi get land east of Ohio river valley o British still have what s now Canada Natives o Can work with the American colonies or work with Britain o Most choose to work with Britain Proc of 1763 kept their land safe from colonies o Because Britain lost natives are in trouble Colonists looking to move west see natives as a threat o Mohawk raiding towns
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