Yorktown and the End of the Revolutionary War

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  1. 3. Hint: A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of the Revolutionary War. Here soldiers received training from the German officer, Baron von Steuben.
  2. 4. Hint: First battle of the Revolutionary War. British troops moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. Known as the shot heard round the world.
  3. 5. Hint: The nickname of a woman said to have carried water to American soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778, before taking over for her husband on the battlefield after he was no longer able to fight.
  4. 7. Hint: Prussian officer who volunteered to help train the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777.
  5. 11. Hint: An American general of the Revolutionary War. He performed notably in the early days of the war but became bitter over several setbacks to his career. After receiving command of the American fort at West Point, New York, he plotted to betray it to the British.
  6. 13. Hint: This, the last battle of the Revolutionary War, was fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington.
  7. 16. Hint: Young Frenchman who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, providing tactical leadership while securing vital resources from France.
  8. 18. Hint: The king of Britain during the American Revolutionary War. He was known for insisting on royal privilege. He was the third of his name.
  9. 19. Hint: Fort in New York. Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys seized the fort and took the cannon powder & guns to Boston.
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  1. 1. Hint: General Washington’s army crosses the Delaware River on Christmas Day 1776 and surprise attacks and defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
  2. 2. Hint: an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He led Patriot forces to victory in the Revolutionary War.
  3. 6. Hint: General in charge of British forces during the American Revolution. When he admitted defeat to George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown, the war was ended.
  4. 8. Hint: a name for the approximately 30,000 German troops hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution.
  5. 9. Hint: Colonists fortify position on Breed’s Hill outside Boston. General Prescott tells them “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” British win but suffer 40% casualties. Gives the colonists hope.
  6. 10. Hint: the turning point of the Revolutionary War. On October 17, 1777, approximately 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.
  7. 12. Hint: On January 17, 1781, American troops routed British forces. The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign.
  8. 14. Hint: Cornwallis arrives in Trenton to capture Washington. Washington sneaks around the British at night and attacks the rear guard. At the end, the British are kicked out of New Jersey.
  9. 15. Hint: Treaty between Great Britain and the now recognized American nation ending the Revolutionary War. It set the boundaries of the new nation to be the Canadian border in the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west.
  10. 17. Hint: Wife of John Adams, the 2nd President and Founding Father of the United States. She was one of his closest advisors. She did not support slavery and fought for women’s rights through her husband.