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key terms and names
| Word | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Rogers Clark | A young frontiersman who stepped forward to organize the Patriots western campaign. |
| Battle of Vincennes | In the west in which Patriots retook Vincennes a mostly french town along the Wabash River fron the british. |
| Camden, North Carolina,1780 | It was where one of the most serious Patriot lossses. |
| Gates | Mistakenly thought he had almost twice as many troops as he did. |
| Guerrilla warfare | Swift hit and run attacks when there fighting there enemy. |
| Francis Marion | He was good at fighting in the Guerrilla warfare style the any other patriot and organized Marions Brigade. |
| Marions Brigade | a secret group of guerrilla warriors who led repeated attacks against the british. |
| Battle of Yorktown | Last major battle of the revolutionary war, the british general Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the Patriots in Virginia. |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | Established british recognition of the united states, laid out new nation borders great lakes to the north, the mississippi river to the west, and 31 degrees latitude to the south. an dthe british formally accepted american rights to settle and trade west |
| 13 colinies |