Happy Christmas, War is Over

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Happy Christmas, War is Over

• The War is Won 6.4

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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
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Washington camped outside NYC
Learns that French ships are on their way, led by
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General Rochambeau

• Pronounced row sham bo

Rochambeau was not heading toward NYC, however
he was heading toward the Chesapeake Bay!!
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Lafayette has Cornwallis penned in Yorktown,
Virginia
Marquis de Lafayette
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Lafayettes Impact on Indiana
Lafayette, Indiana Home to the Evil Empire
Purdue University
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Washington marches
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The Siege of Yorktown
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The Siege of Yorktown
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The Siege of Yorktown
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Francois de Grasse
Finally arrives with ships to the Chesapeake Bay
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The Siege of Yorktown
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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
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Washingtons Farewell
With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now
take my leave of you.
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The (2nd) Treaty of Paris
Benjamin Franklin John Adams John Jay
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Terms of the Treaty of Paris

• Britain recognizes American as a free nation
• America agrees to pay debts to Britain
• Americans could fish off the coast of Canada
• America agreed to encourage the states to return
  land confiscated from Loyalists

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How the Americans Won

• Home field
• Mastery of the rural areas
• French and Spanish help
• British decided war was too expensive to continue
• Independence was a peoples movement