THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Strengths of the Colonies • Strong leader in ● Familiar with the • Guerrilla warfare tactics Colonial Weaknesses Little ● Few • Very small, weak Lexington &

Concord • Small towns outside • Starts the ● Known as the Bunker Hill • British alliance .. Battle of Trenton meet Redcoats in a very brief skirmish • Surprise Attack on but costly • Very high Washington Crosses the Delaware 22 for British inspire Americans 1776 • After • Surprises Major, inspirational victory for the Battle of Saratoga ● Two battles in • The 2nd was a decisive • Major Valley Forge secret crossing into Inspired France to agree to Over mercenaries hired by the British in Fall of Washington has his army camp in Yorktown • Surviving soldiers emerge in spring • Lord Cornwallis surrenders to the in the war during winter of 1777 during brutal, freezing winter arrives for support in September of 1781 wins the war