| Term | Definition |
|---|
| guerilla warfare | a swift hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war |
| George Rogers Clark | Leader of a small Patriot force that captured British-controlled Fort Vincennes in the Ohio Valley in 1779; mapped the frontier. He was very respected |
| Battle of Vincennes | French town that surrendered to Clark's army but was recaptured by British without a fight; after a bloody battle, the town was once again in Patriot's hands |
| Horatio Gates | led Patriot forces at Camden. he thought he had twice as many men fighting with him and in addition he fed his troops bad food which made them ill. |
| Francis Marion | South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution. |
| Comte de Rochambeau | French soldier who commanded the French troops in the American Revolutionary War. He fought with General George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown. |
| Battle of Yorktown | Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 20, 1781. |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | Treaty Between England and the Colonies , formally ended the American Revolutionary War and set the borders of this new conutry. Mississippi River= western border, line 31degrees north= southern border, Great Lakes= nothern border |
| Clark at Kaskaskia | They took a difficult route to surprise the enemy: cross rapids, 120milies of forests and prairies. July 4, 1778, enemy surrendered to Clark without a fight |
| Quamino Dolly | She was a freed slave by the British that showed them a secret path to the Patriot city, Savannah. British took city |
| Eliza Pinckney | She devoloped indigo. British ruined her property,stole her crops, destroyed crops, killed farm animals. |
| fighting at Camden | Horatio Gates was the leader but fed his troops bad food that made them sick. When they battled British in Camden, lots of the Patriots ran away. Only 700 of 4000 troops made it to saftey |
| General Charles Cornwallis | British general who lost the Battle of Yorktown |
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