Saratoga Turning Point
The two battles of Saratoga are well known as the turning point of the American Revolution. It was fought eighteen days from the fall of 1777. It started with the British invasion from Canada during the American Revolutionary War. After they captured Fort Ticonderoga with an extreme amount of ease, they then led General John Burgoyne who was over confident with the task in front of him. They crawled very slowly south giving the Americans many time to regroup under Horatio Gates. To support him, George Washington sent Benedict Arnold, which was his best infantry commander, Colonel Daniel Morgan with his crack Virginian riflemen, and two brigades of Continentals from the Hudson Highlands. This meant that they had raised Gates’s strength leaving
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him with about sixty-five hundred men. There also was Colonel Thaddeus Kosciusko a polish engineer which was also very useful for them because he built the field fortifications on Bemis Heights which overlooked the Hudson River.
Valley Forge was a military camp which was 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia which was where they spent the winter from 1777 to 1778 in the revolutionary war.
There they were exposed to a lot of starvation, diseases, malnutrition, and death which killed more that 2,500 soldiers by February of 1778. The winter there was very harsh for the Patriots and they didn’t want to stay but they couldn’t just leave. This was because it was a secure location until they could move somewhere else they had to stay there even though it wasn’t easy.
The battle of Charleston was a major battle that took place near the end of the American Revolutionary War. This started when the British started to focus on the southern colonies. After six weeks of the siege, Continental Army Major General Benjamin Lincoln gave up and surrendered forces of about 5,000 men which was a big thing.
The British surrendered in October 19, 1781 at he Battle of Yorktown. It started with General Cornwallis bringing 8,000 troops to Yorktown. They were hoping to get the help of the British ships which they sent from New York but they never arrived which was a great advantage for General George Washington and the Continental Army. Because of this they were able to beat what was at the time the world’s largest empire and the country with the biggest
Navy.
The first reason that I think that they won and they had a big advantage was because they had everything very well organized and the British didn’t as much. This is proven at Yorktown when the British ship never arrives. Another thing that I think that they won was because it was fought in their land which they knew like the back of their hands. Finally I think their General, George Washington, was very good General and led them to succeed and beet the British.
him with about sixty-five hundred men. There also was Colonel Thaddeus Kosciusko a polish engineer which was also very useful for them because he built the field fortifications on Bemis Heights which overlooked the Hudson River.
Valley Forge was a military camp which was 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia which was where they spent the winter from 1777 to 1778 in the revolutionary war.
There they were exposed to a lot of starvation, diseases, malnutrition, and death which killed more that 2,500 soldiers by February of 1778. The winter there was very harsh for the Patriots and they didn’t want to stay but they couldn’t just leave. This was because it was a secure location until they could move somewhere else they had to stay there even though it wasn’t easy.
The battle of Charleston was a major battle that took place near the end of the American Revolutionary War. This started when the British started to focus on the southern colonies. After six weeks of the siege, Continental Army Major General Benjamin Lincoln gave up and surrendered forces of about 5,000 men which was a big thing.
The British surrendered in October 19, 1781 at he Battle of Yorktown. It started with General Cornwallis bringing 8,000 troops to Yorktown. They were hoping to get the help of the British ships which they sent from New York but they never arrived which was a great advantage for General George Washington and the Continental Army. Because of this they were able to beat what was at the time the world’s largest empire and the country with the biggest
Navy.
The first reason that I think that they won and they had a big advantage was because they had everything very well organized and the British didn’t as much. This is proven at Yorktown when the British ship never arrives. Another thing that I think that they won was because it was fought in their land which they knew like the back of their hands. Finally I think their General, George Washington, was very good General and led them to succeed and beet the British.