A large force of British troops led by General Cornwallis had reached Yorktown Virginia. The British set up an encampment they built walls, and trenches while the waited for more supplies and troops to arrive in ships from New York. Washington’s army and 5,000 French troops marched south to

Washington began to set up his winter encampment at Valley Forge. The soldiers built rows of log cabins and in a short time the Valley Forge Encampment became the second largest city in the United States with the population of 12,000 men. They had a hard winter, because they lacked food, shoes,

Slavery was an issue during the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson for example had called slavery a cruel war against human nature. Both he and George Washington who also held antislavery views possessed large Virginia plantations and owned hundreds of slaves.

Thomas Jefferson and other members of a special congressional committee were busy and work righting the Declaration of Independence America’s most famous historical document. They wrote that all men are born with certain god given rights and are created equal. They declared that American must be

America’s war from Independence was truly important cause it made it possible for a new form of government called democracy to come into the world at a time when almost everyone was still being ruled by Kings and Queens it was between Britain and American Colonists it lasted for eight years by the