1783 Treaty of Paris

    After the Battle of Yorktown only a few minor battles took place. Britain has run out of money, so they decided that they would start trying to talk peace with us.We eventually reached an agreement with the help of Benjamen Franklin. We signed the Treaty of Paris which said the Great Britain recognized the freedom, and Independence of America. In the treaty the boundaries of the new country were set.Britain also accepted the Americans rights to settle and trade west of the original boundaries of the thirteen colonies


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A new country 1783/ 1782

   The war has ended, we are a new, free, and independent country. All the patriot soldiers are home once again. I can not thank the men who fought to make this country happen enough. I also thank the women who helped out. Now that all the men have returned home the children are asking where their own father is. It is very late into the night now, but I am going to tell them about this tragedy in the morning. My oldest son will now take over his jobs. We must also plan a funeral for the man who was so brave and went off to fight for his love of this land. I am tired now, and must plan how I will tell the children. As of acouple of days ago the year of 1783 we are a freed country, and i am quite enjoying it.

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The Battle of Blue Licks,happened today. In the West Appalachians, the British and their Indian allies, the Wyandot, Ottawa, Ojibwa, Shawnee, Mingo, and Delaware inflicted heavy casualties and forced the retreat of Daniel Boone and the Kentucky militia. In response to this, George Rogers Clark leads Kentucky militia on an expedition against the British into Ohio country. These are often considered the last formal battles of the Revolutionary War. This is major for our colony considering it happened in our colony.

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   Today I have Recived word that George Washington, the leader of the Continental Army has created a badge to recognize soliders for their military merit. I was told that for all the hard work that husband did for this cause he would recive a Purple Heart. Although he is not here to know it I will keep it in a frame, and hang it o the wal over our bed. I will always remember what a great man he was.This was one of the first military badges ever created.

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1781 The Battle of Yorktown part 1 /October 19 1781

   Today I received word that my husband was fighting in the Battle of Yorktown and had died.I am now a single parent of three.I feel that I should tell you exactly what happened. The war was going awful for us we were low on supplies,money, and man power. By bringing in the foreign countries to help us had not worked as planed. As I had said it was going badly the British had the most of the South, New York, and Philadelphia.It hurt us badly when Benedict Arnold turned on us and began to help the British.We learned the General Cornwallis
was taking his troops to Yorktown, Virgina. George Washington decided that it was worth a shot to try to capture them one more time. We happened to be in New York at the time so we blocked the escape of the British.We surrounded them, there was no escape! Then the fighting began it went on for weeks and eventually tired the British. In the mean time my husband was shot in the chest by a British officer. Washington was planning to attack the British while they were weak..........................


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   Today, I was told that the last major battle of the war was fought and won by the patriots

Tired and angry, General Cornwallis sent a drummer and a soldier with a white flag of surrender to Washington’s camp. The Patriots took .  We took eight thousand British troops prisoner. This is great to hear about ,so maybe this awful war will be over

    

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1780 a failed attack / 1780 the women

also known as the swamp fox

   Today I heard that a patriot force tried to force some British out of South Carolina, a fellow middle colony.Horatio Gates had only half as many soldiers as he had planned for, and most were tired and hungry. In the heat of battle, many panicked and ran. The Patriot attack quickly fell apart. Of some 4,000 American troops, only about 700 escaped. This was a sorry attempt of an attack, many people were upset because this made us look poor and disorganized.
   As a result of this fail southern Patriots switched to swift hit-and-run attacks known as guerrilla warfare. No Patriot is better at this style of fighting than Francis Marion. He organized Marion’s Brigade, a group of guerrilla soldiers. Marion’s Brigade used surprise attacks to disrupt British communication and supply lines. Despite their great efforts, the British could not catch Marion and his men.This was good for us because it surprised the British greatly. My husband loved doing this and told the boys that when he gets home he is going to tell them all about it.


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   Today I learned that there is a group of women that organized a campaign to raise money to get the men of the Continental Army clothing. So far they have raised three hundred thousand dollars. The female patriots who formed this campaign are Esther DeBerdt Reed and Sarah Franklin Bache, the daughter of Benjamin Franklin. I believe that this is a great cause, and even though i am part of a poor family I will be sending some money to contribute to this cause.

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1779

   One day my oldest son came home from school and began to talk about what he learned at school that day.He began to recite what his teacher had told him but got some of the information wrong, so I began to explain to my children that that the Native Americans controlled all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.Both the British and the Patriots tried to enlist these groups in their cause. George Rogers Clark volunteered to lead the western campaign. Clark had been a surveyor along the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. By the time the war broke out, he knew the lands of the Midwest well. Clark created an army from the scattered settlements in the area. One of the best-known groups is the Over Mountain Men, a band of settlers from present-day Tennessee.


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September 25, 1779 John Paul Jones

   We the Patriots owe much of our success to a naval hero by the name of John Paul Jones. Jones had once been considered an outlaw in Scotland After accidentally killing the leader of a mutiny, he fled to America and added Jones to his name. When the war broke out, Jones volunteered his services to the newly created navy. He quickly established himself as a brave and clever sailor. Considered a pirate by the British

   Jones captured many British supply ships. The French greatly admired Jones. When France entered the war in 1778, French leaders presented him with a small fleet of seven vessels to command. He named his flagship Bonhomme Richard (“Gentleman Richard”) in honor of Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac. Jones’s most famous victory was the capture of the British warship Serapis on September 23, 1779. Early in the battle, the British knocked out the heaviest artillery on the Bonhomme Richard. The battle continued for more than two hours. Finally the Americans wore down the British, who surrendered at 10:30 p.m.The Continental Navy used fewer than 100 ships over the course of the war. Yet the British lost more than 200 ships to the small but effective American naval force. He was such a large help and I am so glad that my Husband got to meet him and learn from him.


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May 1778

   Benjamin Franklin, a skilled and experienced diplomat, had gone to France in 1776 to ask for support from King Louis XVI. Finally, the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 persuaded the French king that the colonists could win the war. Not until then did the king agree to an alliance with the Patriots.
    I received a massage from my husband that the Continental Congress ratified the treaty of support with France. The French have been helping the Patriots all along with supplies and ammunition. After the treaty became official, the French increased the level of supplies and agreed to provide soldiers and ships. The French naval support will be a key ingredient in defeating the British. This helped our side out tremendously because of the fact that we were getting help for our cause.


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1778

   Aside from Marquis de Lafayette a French man, Baron Friedrich Von Steuben, an experienced military officer from Prussia, led with a combination of respect and fear. He started training our American troops,mainly on basic military drills. Soon he turned the Continental Army into a finely tuned fighting force.Now instead of just a bunch of colonists jumbled up to form a group for fighting we  have a very strong army almost as strong as Britain's. Thanks to these men.

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January 1777

    Today I recived word that my Husband had helped the colonial army win in the Battle of Princeton. This win was huge because well,it was another win for us. General Gearge Washington  decided to use his momentum and grab another victory before entering winter quarters. On December 30, he crossed the Deleware River back into New Jersey. At 1 A.M. on January 3, 1777, the rest of Washington's force set out. In Princeton, Lt. General Charles Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lt. Colonel Charles Mawhood. Washington was able to attack and defeat the troops at Princeton and get out before General Cornwallis could arrive with reinforcements.


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1777

   Not many peaople know of this but my husband found out from a family friend. Joseph Brant, the Mohawk Sachem, was actively recruiting men to fight for the British. These men, known as Brant’s Volunteers, were mostly white men. Scarcely more than one fifth were Indians, and most if not all of them were his clansmen. The white men were mainly Loyalist refugees from the upper Delaware and Susquehanna River valleys. Revolutionaries assumed Brant had a large party of Mohawk warriors as the white men disguised themselves by dressing and painting themselves as Indians.This was just a fact that i found interesting since part of it took place in my home colony.


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March 12, 1776

   Today I have received word that Howe's army has retreated from Boston to Canada. The place where the patriots began is now theirs again. Today I also received the 47 page pamphlet called Common Sense. It was published anonymously, but most of the colonist know that Thomas Paine. He argued that citizens, not kings and queens, should make laws. At a time when monarchs ruled much of the world, this was a bold idea for the time. This pamphlet will eventually sell 500,000 copies, that means that almost every person in the colonies will have one. Common Sense changes the way many colonists are viewing their king. It made a strong case for economic freedom and for the right to military self-defense. The Continental Congress is meeting this year to draft the declaration of independence,they also have a committee to come up with a seal, and a motto.

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March 4,1776

   Alot has happened since I last wrote,The Second Continintal Congress met, my husband went off with a group from our colony to fight in the Battle of Bunker Hill even though the battle was launched from Breeds Hill, and the Continintal Congress picked George Washington to command the Continintal Army.I have been busy taking care of the children,and am just now getting to write for the first time in months.

   Washington knew that he would need heavier guns to drive the British out of Boston. And he knew where to get them, Fort Ticonderoga. Henry Knox was assigned to transport the captured cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. He successfully brought the heavy guns over 300 miles of rough terrain in the middle of winter. When Knox delivered the cannons, Washington was ready to regain control of Boston. This morning George Washington moved his troops to Dorchester Heights, an area that overlooked Boston from the south. They put the cannons and themselves on Nook's Hill, which overlooked General William Howe’s position. When the general woke up he and his army were surrounded, and he knew they must retreat




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April 19, 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord

   At dawn today the British troops arrived in Lexington.70 minutemen were armed and waiting for them.John Parker told the troops "do not fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here." Suddenly one shot rang out, nobody knows who firedd the shot but it is known as the shot heard around the world.
   The Battle of Lexington ended with only a few shots fired. Only 8 of the out numbered minutemen were killed and 10 were wounded.The British only had one man wounded as they marched forward to concord. Paul Revere was arrested but the people of Concord had been warned by another rider of the name, Samule Prescott. Nostt of the weapons had been hidden by the time the British go there. The British frustrated that they couldn't get the stockpile set fire to some of the towns buuildings.In reaction to this the minutemen raced forward and cought up with them.
   For the marksmen of Concord the British made an easy target.They were wearing bright red military jackets, because of this they were called red coats by the colonists.They were forced to retreat to Boston and sufferd many causualties along the way.


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April 1775

   As I stated above, The Continental Congress was supposed to meet again in this year.Before they could get to, things in the colonies had changed for the worse.Military leaders and colonists were becoming uneasy when local British military leaders seemed to be preparing for action.At this point the governor of Massachusetts had learned that there was a stockpile of weapons in Concord which is about 20 miles from Boston.
   He decided that he was going to take the weapons Gage(the governor of MA) thought that he had kept this plan a secret, but there  were many patriot spies. They noticed that the British were up to something and quickly told the Patriots.Robert Newman was to display one lantern in the steeple of the Old North Church if the British were coming by land, and display two if they were coming by water.Newman displayed two lanterns, and Revere and Dawes set off on horse back to alert the minute men.The minute men get there name because they were ready to fight in a minute.


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About me and my family october 1774

    My name is Anna Bell Jacobs.I am keeping this blog to keep account of what happens to my family and I during this time.I am twenty seven years old,and married to a man by the name of John Matthew Jacobs.We live in the colony of Delaware,and have three young children by th names of Matthew age 5, Mark age 8, and John age 10.We are a very poor family that takes the view point of  patriots.It is currently October of 1774,the first Continintal Congress met a couple of weeks ago to discuss how to handle the closing of the Boston Harbor.

   The delegates decided that everyone should continue to boycott Brittish goods,but told the colonial militias to prepare for war.While this was happening they drafted the Declaration of Rights, a list of 10 resolutions that was going to be shown to  King George the Third.The Continintal Congress decided that if the king refused their petition they would meet again in 1775.My husband is part of the colonies malitia,therefore I know that fighting is drawing near.I can not stand this much longer but I must. I fear that when my husband goes off to fight that he will not return, and I will be left alone to care for myself and the children.This is all I know at the moment. My husband and I are quite frightend but we must not let the children know.

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