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The Battle of Trenton took place In The year of 1776. More than 1,200 Hessians fighting Washington could defeat them, it might make more colonists surprise The Hessians On Christmas when they were least crossed the Delaware River and Washington and his army join In The continental army. Washington's plan was to for The British were camped in T renton, New Jersey. If Gen. Attacked. The outcome of this battle is that this victory gave the defeat The British garrison.

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The Battle of Trenton took place In The year of 1776. More than 1,200 Hessians fighting Washington could defeat them, it might make more colonists surprise The Hessians On Christmas when they were least crossed the Delaware River and Washington and his army join In The continental army. Washington's plan was to for The British were camped in T renton, New Jersey. If Gen. Attacked. The outcome of this battle is that this victory gave the defeat The British garrison.

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The Revolutionary War

By Charlotte Dalke

Monday, February 4, 13

T able of Contents! The Battle of Trenton #3 The Battle of Princeton #4 The Battle of Saratoga #5 Winter at Valley Forge #6 The Battle of Yorktown #7 The T reaty of Paris #8 Ben Franklin #9

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The Battle of Trenton


This was the year of 1776. More than 1,200 Hessians ghting Washington could defeat them, it might make more colonists surprise the Hessians on Christmas when they were least crossed the Delaware River and Washington and his army They tried their hardest to ght back but they were expecting it. On Christmas, Washington and his army join in the continental army. Washingtons plan was to for the British were camped in T renton, New Jersey. If Gen.

attacked. The Hessians were caught completely off guard. surprised and they didnt expect battling on Christmas. In The outcome of this battle is that this victory gave the defeat the British garrison.

two hours, The Battle of T renton was over. Guess who won! colonists condence that Washington and themselves could

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The Battle of Princeton


Their names were Gen. Howe and Gen. Burgoyne. Gen. Howe was not happy that the British had been defeated in the Battle of T renton. He wanted to avenge the important British Gen.)to take his army to New York City, where they would be Washington had a plan though. Washington would sneak his men around to the enemys rear, and attack at Princeton. He had a few of his men stay back, and make as much noise as possible, so that it sounded and looked like his whole stationed, and then they would attack the continental army. British loss. Gen. Howe decided that he wanted Gen. Cornwallis,(another There were two British generals who were important in the Battle of Princeton.

army was still there. It was morning, January 3rd, Gen. Cornwallis woke up to the sound of gun re. Now he knew he had been tricked, the Continental army was attacking Princeton. The British troops retreated towards T renton, and right then. Washington gave his army two desperately needed winnings.

Washington did not follow. He knew his army was too small and too tired to go on

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The Battle of Saratoga took place in Saratoga, New Jersey. The Battle was in the year of 1777.

The Battle of Saratoga

General Burgoyne was a British general. He and general Howe were important generals. The British plan of attack was to have Gen. Burgoyne going south from Canada, and Gen. Howe to move north up the Hudson River and meet Burgoynes army half way.

General Howe did not get his orders in time, so the continental army now only had a single army to battle. The British failed because the patriot army knew how to hide in bushes and behind trees, while the British had been trained to re in straight lines. This was an important battle because the patriots won and captured the

British. But Gen. Gates (a patriot general) let Burgoyne keep all his weapons, and let them return to England. But congress did not put up with that, so the British were prisoners of war.
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Winter at Valley Forge


This took place in an abandoned place in Pennsylvania. This was the year of 1777-1778. Baron Von Steuben was German. His job was to train the continental hard for the army. army into shape. He could only speak German though, so it was very The weather was extremely horrible. It was horrible because it was cold and disease.

freezing. The weather was so bad, that many soldiers died from the Washington was brave through this hard time. He was their leader, he had to stay strong. Some men deserted Washington, but some were loyal and stayed by his side. stay loyal, and be brave.

This time period was important because the army learned to survive,

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The Battle of Yorktown


This battle took place in Yorktown, Virginia. This was the year of 1781. A French eet had come with weapons, supplies, and troops. The French and the Patriot army were now one army. The now allied army of the French and the Patriots had 16,000 men. The British had about 7,500. were loyal to him. for the British. General Washington lead his troops through the battle. His troops He was a British general. He had Washingtons role, but he was ghting This was the last battle of the Revolutionary war. Now the Britishs last option, was to sign a peace treaty. They had lost.

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This took place in Paris, France. This was the year of 1783.

The T reaty of Paris

Ben Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams were sent by congress to Paris to get Britain to agree to terms of a peace treaty, declaring American independence.

The terms of the treaty were: Britain had to agree to new borders for the

U.S. Britain also had to move all of its troops still in America, back to Britain. The United States would also allow all of Britains troops to return. America agreed to pay the money they owed to Britain, and they also said that they would not do anything to the Loyalists still in America. They would be sent back to England.

The war is over. But what now? The Americans are on their own. They must build a nation. The Americans begin work.

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Ben Franklin!!!
Boston, Massachusetts.

Ben Franklin was born January 17th, 1706, in Ben is one of the most well known and loved founders of the United States of America. He had a son who was a Loyalist. Ben was ashamed of his son. He was a witness to two of the rst balloon ights. He lived in England for over a decade, then moved to France and lived there for 6 years, then moved to America.

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