Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
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Jennifer Trice
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Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris
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Guerrilla Warfare
Guerrilla soldiers kept the cause alive in the South.
Francis Marion (Mel Gibson's character in The Patriot is loosely based on him) harassed the British with hit-and-run raids.
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Nathanial Greene's Strategy
1780 - Washington sent Greene to slow Corwallis' advance through the south.
With a force too small to engage in battle, Greene led Cornwallis on an exhausting chase through the backcountry.
By 1781, Cornwallis retreated to Yorktown, Virginia to rest.
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Cornwallis Surrenders
October 19, 1781. Cornwallis, trapped against the Chesapeake Bay, surrendered his army to Washington.
As the Americans in patched uniforms, lined the road, the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down" as 8,000 British troops laid down their arms (weapons).
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The correct order of answers for the blanks on the previous slide is
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The Treaty of Paris
Early in 1783, Americans and British signed a peace treaty in Paris.
1. Britain agreed to recognized the United States as an Independent nation.
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Treaty of Paris
2. Britain gave up its claim to all lands between the Atlantic Coast and the Mississippi River (the red and blue sections of the map.)
3. The U.S. agreed to return all rights and property taken from Loyalists during the war.
More than 80,000 Loyalists left the United States to settle in Canada.
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