Battle of Saratoga The Saratoga campaign, battles of the American Revolution, were fought in up state New York, and permanently terminated British hopes of separating the colonies along the Hudson River. ... Siege of Yorktown The siege of Yorktown was the final major action of the American Revolution, and was finalized by the surrender of British troops on October 19, 1781. During the fighting American and French land forces under General George Washington collaborated with a French fleet commanded by Admiral Francois Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, surrounded the British, who were und...

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This great American country that we know and love today was not always the world super power that people understand the United States to be currently. ... It was through this demotion where Washington took advantage of this porous situation and made it a positive. ... These two fronts were held strong by colonists but it's the next attack the almost compromised the Revolution as a whole. ... The British were able to capture Brooklyn but through Washington's strategic excellence he preserved the Revolution for another day. ... During these time period it was rare that attacks were mad...

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Of the revolutions passed that day, five of the resolutions dealt specifically with the possibility of seizing whatever stores of warlike materiel were available. ... That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors, and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates with other battalions; that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices or enlisted into such battalions but such are good seamen or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve with advantage b...

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