American Revolutionary War File

: High-ranking American general who famously defected to the British in 1780. Global Legacy

Harsh winter quarters where the army was drilled into a professional force. Siege of Yorktown american revolutionary war

: The Intolerable Acts (1774) , designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party , led to the formation of the First Continental Congress . : High-ranking American general who famously defected to

Major American victory; convinced to openly join the war. 1777-78 Valley Forge american revolutionary war

: The British monarch whose policies the colonists resisted.