Lesson 8 The War Ends

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Treaty of Paris


in 1779, the British thought that they could take over the Southern colonies. It got off to a bad start with the plan.  The Americans got support from Spain. So now the Patriots have the French and Spain. Bernardo de Galvez, governor of Spainl, closed the port at New Orleans to Great Britian and opened it to American ships.Between 1778 and 1781, the British army won the battles at Savannah, Georgia and at Charles Towen and Camden in South Carolina.  The British and Americans finally met. They met in March 1781 at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. The British won but lost one-fourth of the army. A British leader once said ''Another such victory would would destroy the British army. General Cornwallis led 7,000 soldiers to Yorktown, Virginia. Stopping at Yorktown was a decision that would cause Great Britian to lose the war. General Cornwallis did not guess that the Patriots and the French would not learn of his plans. One of Cornwallis's servants, James Armistead, was a spy for Lafayette. Armistead passed on the information that the British were waiting for supplies from New York. Lafayette sent this information to the French Navy. At the same time Washington army and a large French  force joined Lafayette. Cornwallis discovered too