The War of Independence 1775-83 - Statistics

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Answer	Hint	% Correct
1778	Official Franco American alliance	100%
1779	Spain join the war	100%
1780	Congress is virtually bankrupt	100%
1781	Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown	100%
1782	Lord North resigns	100%
August 1777	After 6 weeks crammed onboard, British soldiers land at Chesapeake Bay, barely 64km closer to Philadelphia than they had been before	50%
August 1780	Commander of continental forces in the south, Horatio Gates, leads an army of over 3000 men into South Carolina	50%
February 1780	General Cornwallis besieges Charleston with 7600 men	50%
January 1779	Augusta is captured by Campbell.	50%
June 1775	Battle of Bunker Hill, in which the British scrape victory	50%
June 1776	Congress appoint a committee of 13 men, one from each state	50%
March 1779	The British defeat patriot forces at Briar Creek	50%
May 1775	The Second Continental Congress begins	50%
May 1780	General Lincoln surrenders to the British, who capture 5000 Americans, 343 artillery pieces and 6000 muskets	50%
November 1777	Rather than attacking the Americans, Howe decides to spend the winter in Philadelphia, failing to win a decisive victory yet again	50%
September 1775	The Secret Committee is established	50%
11 September 1777	Howe defeats Washington at Brandywine Creek	0%
12 July 1776	First draft of the Articles of Confederation presented to the Continental Congress	0%
15 April 1783	Treaty of Paris	0%
15 November 1777	The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation	0%
17 November 1777	The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states, with a request for ratification	0%
17 October 1777	Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga	0%
1 March 1781	The Articles of Confederation is finally ratified by all 13 states, as Maryland sign	0%
21 September 1777	Another British victory at Paoli	0%
22 August 1776	British forces land in New York	0%
26 September 1777	Howe captures Philadelphia	0%
27 August 1776	An expeditionary force of over 32,000 British regulars defeat Washington's troops at Kip's Bay and invade Manhattan	0%
28 June 1778	The British rear-guard is unsuccessfully attacked at Monmouth Court	0%
29 May 1780	Colonel Banastre Tarleton and 300 dragoons defeat 350 virginians at Waxhaw Creek	0%
2 July 1776	12/13 colonies voted for the Declaration of Independence	0%
4 July 1776	Congress declare independence	0%
4 October 1777	Washington launches a counter-attack at Germantown, in which the Americans suffer 1000+ casualties, 2x more than the British	0%
December 1778	British Colonel Campbell captures Savannah, only losing 3 soldiers and capturing 500 American prisoners	0%
Late 1778	Clinton sends a 3,000-strong army led by Colonel Campbell to Georgia	0%
Mid-June 1778	Clinton leaves for New York, with 10,000 soldiers and a 20km baggage train	0%

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