Show EIGHTH GRADE HISTORY STORY BY n B x continued irom from last cissne lii aoe much of the mid misfortune fortune in the early part of 0 the war was duo due to the inter of Co coores ares and abd the hie treachery ot of charles leg lee who was next to lugton la in command early in vm 1777 lafayette came over from franco france to offer his services to washington ne he brought over military stores and supplies with him came a german and aad two polish oal cers later came baron was of great bervice in ill training the american troops troop meanwhile the british tied had formed a plan which was wag to destroy the american army bunyne was waa to come down the hudson from canada byway by way of dalre champlain Champl aln st leger was to come across new kew york from fort oswego on lake ontario howe was to come up the hudson from new kew vork ork and ana meet at albany st fit leger was back bows did oot do ills his part and burgoyne Bure oyce was wag forced to surrender october II 11 17 M the honor was riven given to gates who had bad been put in lers place dut but the credit rightly belonged to arnold and morgan L Nl organ the blunder in ilowe not going up to dielt burgoyne had very serious cor sequences for the british cause itlear it lead to burdyne Bu Bur royne goynes surrender coder and the french alliance iiona bad been advised by who had bad been eat cai luied and to save ilia own deck gave ave up the plaris plans of 0 philadelphia to take the rebel capital washington how aver prevented pre Tented howe flowe from reaching the elty tT atter after two or three weeks ilowe made loads another attempt to take philadelphia ne ile set sall sail for the delaware bay he went up this bay for a abort distance anil then went back and went up the chesapeake Cheta to elkton from liero bera restarted he started to to philadelphia lie ila was aas by sept 11 1777 at chadds Cli addi ford on the brandywine creek tha americans were forced to retreat but they did so in such good order that it was a fortnight before the british entered philadelphia on october 14 made an at tack tacit on but it resulted reul ted in defeat to a heavy ion fow in which two divi divisions of the americans american fired bred oo OD each ot illier it tier lier ai ll 11 wab laie in the year irton went luti lots will ter quarters at valley forge howe remained in philadelphia the condition of the A american army anny was pitiful M many any were barefoot and sta iving this ibis suffering lUg was wag caused ba 07 mismanagement of I 1 tie commissary department due to the Inter interference ferenc a of con congress gregs france had secretly been the colonists in 1778 ab she iund in nn agi agre ment to send over a fleet and an ar army m y of four thousand men when the british heard usk ask ar Fr friner iliew over lure wre made to the americans americana and slit nil they bid asked for except des dei 0 wilm offered ill but it W 14 ta 0 I 1 ite 81 H alii ain jolet d trance france and hollind wan the independence oi of tap united states slates the effect of 0 the french alliance Allta in america was to inspire new courage it lead to the ey evacuation ot of philadelphia and helped the finan floa clil credit ot of the Arneri american cang after the evacuation of the americans american fell up n the retreating at and had it not been for the treachery of lee would have gained a great victory the british retreated to new hew york and Wash washington logton took up his bis old position north ot of the city the caulia campaign I 1 go in the middle ool colonies onles tad bad been a jail failure for the british the french sent the fleet and land and torce force over to america it came to new newyork york but the ships were too large to cross the mad bars it was decided to attack newport rhode island the attempt was waa a failure and the french general sailed called with his big fleet to the west indies in 1778 2778 a force of british under butler bailer and some indians indiana under brant a mohawk chief attacked a settlement in warning valley pennsylvania killed the people and destroyed the village there were other attacks and massacres the people should bo be revenged so the next year general sullivan wa sent against tee indians ula order arre re tu t out cut off the settlements aud and destroy the crops the indian ravages continued until 1783 ane Ameri americans cims as a dation had bad but tea few leipsic of war ar however many privateers atee were ere commissioned by con coti gress eress after the war broke out tae most successful of the commanders wai john paul jones lie he took look many british ships lie ile won great known in the combat with the sera pis a british ship the serapid sur rendered hut but not licit until jones had bad lost three hundred of hit his three hundred nod and seventy five avo men over seventy thousand men inen were engaged in the Awe american while the greatest engaged on land was forty beven thousand to be conal aued art 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