Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1775 Second Continental Congress convenes at Philadelphia

Congress Creates the Continental Army

Battle of Bunker Hill: redcoats drive the rebels from the Charlestown peninsula

1776 Publication of Common Sense: popular support for independence surges

British troops evacuate Boston

Declaration of Independence

British occupy New York City

Washington forced to retreat through New Jersey into Pennsylvania

Washington counterattacks at the Battle of Trenton

1777 British summer drive to occupy Philadelphia

Battles of Brandywine Creek, Germantown: Continentals are defeated twice

Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga: a major rebel victory

Continental Army encamps for winter at Valley Forge

1778 France allies with rebel Americans

France and Britain declare war

British shift focus to the South

Savannah falls

1780 British occupy Charleston

Partisan warfare of Marion, Sumter

Rebel victory at King’s Mountain, South Carolina

Nathanael Greene takes southern command: more effective leadership for the rebels

1781 Engagements at Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse

Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

1783 Treaty of Paris: Britain recognizes the United States as an independent nation

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