The+War+in+the+West+and+South

=__War in the West__= Mohawk Cheif Joesph Brant led a number of brutal attacks in the southwestern New York and northern Pennsylvania. After the war, he served as a representitive for the Mowhawk people to the Continental Congress and tried to get a fair land settlement for his people.Since Brant wasnt able to reach an agreement, he and his people moved to Canada. The commander of the British base in the west was Henry Hamilton. He commanded Detroiot. =VICTORY AT VINCENNES= In 1778,George Rogers Clark and 175 soldiers marched 120 miles from the Ohio river to the Tennesee river.They were going to stop the british from attaking western settlers.They siezed british forts along the way at Kaskakia and Vicenes.After clarks absence in the winter the british took back vicenes and clark vowed to get it back.In February 1779 Clark's army marched through flooding ice and suprised the british and the british surrenderd.Clark's victory stregthened in the west and brang up the morale.



=British Victories= In 1778 General Henry Clinton sent 3,500 British troops from New York to take Savannah, which is on the coast of Georgia. The British overan most of the state.In early 1780 Clinton headed south with a big army to attack the port of Charles Town, South Carolina. In August 1780, Clinton returned to New York leaving General Charles Cornwallis in command of the British forces in the south. The Continetal Congress sent forces under General Horatio Gates to face Cornwallis. Cornwallis soon found out that he couldnt control the are he had concored. So he faced a new kind of warfare.

=GUERILLA WARFARE:= Since the war was going to the south,the british got less help from the Loyalist then expected. As the Britsh moved through the countryside, they were attacked by small forces of Patriots.The soldiers appered out of nowhere shot them and disapeared.This hit and run technique was called Guerilla Warfare.One of the succesfull leader's was Francis Marion who was operating out of the swamps of eastern South Carolina.The British called him the swamp fox and said the devil himself couldnt catch him.

=__HELP FROM SPAIN__= 30 year old Bernardo de Galves governer of Spain, has been sending money to America and supplies to a man names, George Roger Clar in the northwest territory. With all this help George R. Clark captured key points of, Kaskaskia, Caho Kia, and Vincennes. then in 1779, Spain declared war on the British. Galves had Americans and African American and marched to British post. Fast he captures forts at Baton Rauge and Natchez. Then in March, 1780 Galves forced British mobile to surrender. Then in May 1781 he took he took pensacola to the British, capitol of west Florida. America British Spain France

=British Retreat= Cornwallis wanted to march north to Virginia in April 1781. His troops carried out raids throughout the state, nearly capturing Govener Thomas Jefferson and Virginia legislature in June. General Washington sent Lafayette and General Anthony Wayne south to fight Cornwallis. While they were doing that, Cornwallis was building a camp at Yorktown and waited for futher instructions from Clinton in New York. The battle for control of the South was entering its final phase.