::SOLDIERING - TIMELINE::
This program piece addresses life as a soldier, battlefield surgery, marching drills, and concludes with the battle and siege at Yorktown. Various artifacts are presented and groups of students are actually trained in marching as a unit.
1775 General Gage orders 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy weapons depot; Paul Revere and William Davies are sent from Boston to give warning
April 19 - 70 armed Massachusetts militiamen face the British advance guard; British forces retreat from Lexington and suffer 250 dead along the way
May 10 - the Second Contential Congress with John Hancock President; he appoints George Washington Commander-in-Chief
June 17 - Battle of Bunker Hill; 2000 British soldiers attach, regroup ... (American's run out of ammunition); British 1000 dead - America 400 dead
1776 Congress opens shipping ports to all except England
May 2 - King Louis XVI of France provides $1,000,000; Spain declares support
July 4 - United State Declaration of Independence
October 11 - the new American Navy is destroyed in two battles (83 ships) in Lake Champlain
1777 John Paul Jones is Captain to the Ranger and raids English costal towns
July 27 - Marquis de Lafayette volunteers support of America
November 15 - Articles of Confederation (establishing a formalized goverment pending state ratification)
1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce
Treaty of Alliance (France is major supplier of military supplies)
England and France declare war; England gains many Indian allies and terrorize settlers
1779 Spain declares war on England; Americans begin attacking Indian villages
1780 Count de Rochambeau arrives at Rhode Island with 6000 French; General Cornwallis defeats Americans in South Carolina
1781 Washington plans to attack New York; slaves in Williamsburg rebel
August 1 - Cornwallis arrives in Yorktown with 10,000 men
August 14 - Admiral Count de Grasse, with 29 ships, heads for Yorktown; Washington and Rochambeau change plans and prepare attack at Yorktown
September 28 - the American seige of Yorktown begins
1782 Loyalists leave America (many head to Canada); raids against Indians continue
1783 February 4 - England declares an end to hostilities
April 11 - Congress delcares and end to war
