1. Fighting
for Liberty
on Many
Fronts
Chapter 6.4
and 6.5

2. 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

3. Fight for Fight for
British Patriots
• Offered • All men
freedom equal?
Choices for African- • Might be Only free
hanged African-
Americans Americans
by
Patriots allowed to
enlist
• Might be
captured
& sold by
British

4. 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

5. • Massachusetts, NH, and
Pennsylvania make
slavery illegal

6. British get Native help in the West & North
• Cherokees, Choctaws,
Chickasaws, Creeks,
Mohawks, and Iroquois
attack settlements.

7. 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.

8. At Sea
His ship Bonhomme Richard
named for Ben Franklin’s Poor
Richard’s Almanac
John Paul
Jones takes
the British
Serapis in a
naval battle:
“I have not yet begun to fight.”

9. Chapter 6
Section 5
Winning the War in
the South

10. British Commander Clinton moves
battles to the South to get Loyalist
support.
• http://
www.discoversouthcarolina.com/plan-your-trip/interactive.htm

11. 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.

12. Losing hope in December of 1778
• British also get control of
Camden, SC, and Savannah,
GA. 1780

13. 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.