National support helped America win the war. France joined sides with the colonies on their quest to become independent. They helped the States in many ways. First, they sent over Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben to help train the army. It was a huge success.
Howe wanted negotiation more than outright victory because he was not only commander in chief but (together with his brother, Adm. Lord Richard Howe) peace commissioner in America. This schizoid role handicapped him both as military leader and as diplomat; yet events of summer and fall 1776 suggested that he would succeed. After the British evacuated Boston, defeats and disaster filled the rest of 1776. The army Congress had sent to invade Canada in June 1775 collapsed in the summer of 1776. After capturing Montréal, the Continentals failed to take Québec, and were forced to raise their siege when British reinforcements arrived by ship in May.
Samuel Adams and John Hancock were highly influential in the spurring of the American Revolution. Each contributed by provoking the American colonists into action, especially in Boston. Because of their success and direction, Adams and Hancock were elected by the colonists to multiple leadership positions. Of course, though, there would be nothing to provoke into revolution if it hadn’t been for the tyrannous British oppression. Samuel Adams was a powerful writer and orator.
In Document A, ‘The Numbers’, it clearly shows that by the end of February, there were only 8,000 soldiers at Valley Forge, half of them ill. An army of 4,000 healthy soldiers, the rest ill, fighting off a strong army of tens of thousands of healthy, well fed soldiers has terrible odds for the Patriots. Yes, the British lost the war, but at the time, no one knew that! France ended up helping, but they knew that in April. Odds of the odds turning to my favor are slim, like one out of a million. If I'm smart, I'd already be out of Valley Forge.
He wrote the “Star Spangled Banner” in September 1814 and it became immediately popular. Amazingly, the song was the product of a humiliation. Francis Scott Key was a veteran of what some dubbed “the Bladensburg Races,” the total collapse of American forces during the British invasion of Washington in August 1814. When the untrained American militia faced the dogged advance by British troops, backed by artillery fire, the Americans broke rank by the hundreds and then by the thousands. They ran as fast as they could, hence the humorous reference to “The Races.” Most simply ran back toward Washington, including Lieutenant Key.
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He did a very good job on his presidency and he had many important achievements. I would definitely have voted for Jefferson because he was brilliant and he understood the needs of the people. As mentioned above, he helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the constitutional law. Lastly, he argued fundamentally that a federal government that had too much authority over its people would ultimately undergo a revolution. Work Cited Ambrose, Stephen E. “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American”, West.
Gaining more land was only one of the many things that made the American colonies overjoyed. After 1763, when the French and Indian War had just ended; the French, who was a threat to the American colonies and Britain was gone. The French had given up all its land claims in the major North American continent, giving everything east of the Mississippi to Britain and its colonies and everything west of the Mississippi River to Spain (Document A). While both the American colonies and Great Britain celebrated on gaining more land and winning the French and Indian War, the Native Americans on the other side of the Appalachian Mountain were deeply angered. Back in 1742; Canassatego, a chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy expresses his anger to the representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, “Your People daily settle on these Lands, and spoil our Hunting.
After several victories against French in Spain he invaded France. Napoleon, weakened by his disastrous invasion of Russia, surrendered in 1814. But the following year he escaped and quickly assembled an army in France. Wellington with the timely help of the Prussian army. Finally defeted Napoleon at Waterloo in Belgium in June 1815 (McDowall, 2003, p.
Between 1915 and 1917, Italian troops only got 10 miles inside Austrian territory. But in October 1917 came the disaster of Caporetto. In this battle, in fact a series of battles, the Italians had to fight the whole Austrian Army and 7 divisions of German troops. The Italian Army lost 300,000 men. Though the Italians had a victory at Vittorio Veneto in 1918, the psychological impact of Caporetto was huge.