B. The student will analyze the significance of people and events in Ga during the Revolutionary War: include Loyalists, Patriots, Elijah Clark, Austin Dabney, Nancy Hart, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton, Battle of Kettle Creek, and Siege of Savannah
People To Know
• Loyalist- AKA Tories- colonists that wanted to remain part of Great Britain
• Patriots – AKA Whigs- Colonists that wanted to break away from Great Britain and form anew nation
• Elijah Clark – Military leader from Ga that had several successful battles for GA
• Austin Dabney – former slave that fought for the patriots in the Revolution
• Nancy Hart – Patriotic woman that battled the British in the frontier of Ga. Only woman to have a county of Ga named after them
Battles to know in Ga
• Kettle Creek
happened in Spring 1779
American forces led by Elijah Clarke surprised and defeated British forces at Kettle Creek
The British fled so fast that they left everything behind – even knocking their cooking kettles over into the creek as they hurriedly left (Hence the name Kettle Creek)
Americans got badly needed supplies such as guns and ammo
Never again did the Tories gather a large force in the backcountry
• Siege of Savannah
After the fall of Saratoga, French forces decided to help the colonists
Fall 1779, Colonists and French forces began attacking Savannah
Count Casmir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, led a cavalry charge against the British in the city and was killed in combat
The siege failed and Savannah remained in British hands
Colonists Win War and Defeat Great Britain
• 1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia and marked the end of the American Revolution
• It took awhile for British troops to leave America and especially GA where the king had remained in control for so long
War officially ended w/ Treaty of Paris 1783
People To Know
• Loyalist- AKA Tories- colonists that wanted to remain part of Great Britain
• Patriots – AKA Whigs- Colonists that wanted to break away from Great Britain and form anew nation
• Elijah Clark – Military leader from Ga that had several successful battles for GA
• Austin Dabney – former slave that fought for the patriots in the Revolution
• Nancy Hart – Patriotic woman that battled the British in the frontier of Ga. Only woman to have a county of Ga named after them
Battles to know in Ga
• Kettle Creek
happened in Spring 1779
American forces led by Elijah Clarke surprised and defeated British forces at Kettle Creek
The British fled so fast that they left everything behind – even knocking their cooking kettles over into the creek as they hurriedly left (Hence the name Kettle Creek)
Americans got badly needed supplies such as guns and ammo
Never again did the Tories gather a large force in the backcountry
• Siege of Savannah
After the fall of Saratoga, French forces decided to help the colonists
Fall 1779, Colonists and French forces began attacking Savannah
Count Casmir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, led a cavalry charge against the British in the city and was killed in combat
The siege failed and Savannah remained in British hands
Colonists Win War and Defeat Great Britain
• 1781 British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia and marked the end of the American Revolution
• It took awhile for British troops to leave America and especially GA where the king had remained in control for so long
War officially ended w/ Treaty of Paris 1783