Fighting for Liberty on Many Fronts

Chapter 6.4 and 6.5

Famous women who served

• Mary Ludwig Hayes- a “Molly Pitcher”

• Betsy Ross- sewed flags for Washington’s army

• Margaret Corbin-1st wounded

• Deborah Sampson-A.K.A. Robert Shurtleff

Choices for African-Americans

Fight for British

• Offered freedom

• Might be hanged by Patriots

Fight for Patriots

• All men equal? Only free African-Americans allowed to enlist

• Might be captured & sold by British

Famous African-Americans who served

• Prince Estabrook- wounded at Lexington and Concord

• Peter Salem and Salem Poor- fought at Bunker Hill

• Saul Matthews and James Armistead-spies

• Massachusetts, NH, and Pennsylvania make slavery illegal

British get Native help in the West & North

• Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Mohawks, and Iroquois attack settlements.

The Western Frontier and the War

• George Rogers Clark was successful in the Ohio River Valley.

• New Spain’s Governor Galvez helped Americans along the Gulf Coast and the MS River.

At Sea

John Paul Jones takes the British Serapis in a naval battle:

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

His ship Bonhomme Richard named for Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac

Chapter 6Section 5

Winning the War in the South

British Commander Clinton moves battles to the South to get Loyalist support.

• http://www.discoversouthcarolina.com/plan-your-trip/interactive.htm

Charleston, SC surrenders to the British 1780

• British Mistakes:

1. General Cornwallis forces colonists to give allegiance to England. They must choose sides .

2. Colonel Tarleton refuses to “give quarter” to Buford’s VA Infantry. Wounded bayoneted, and those who surrendered are stabbed with sabers. – Atrocities make Patriots more determined, and sway

some on the fence to side w/ Patriots. – Retaliation continues on both sides.

Losing hope in December of 1778

• British also get control of Camden, SC, and Savannah, GA. 1780

Nathaniel Greene replaces Gates in command of the Southern forces

• He had been quartermaster at Valley Forge. He won a major battle at Guilford Courthouse in NC, which removed the British from NC.