Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1779 Georgia video explores how the state became the focus of Britain’s southern campaign in 1779. The Patriots win a victory at Kettle Creek, but despite the arrival of French allies led by comte d’Estaing, the failed siege of Savannah left Georgia in British control. […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1779 Franco-Spanish Alliance video examines the entry of Spain into America’s War for Independence as an ally of France. This turns the American Revolutionary War into a global struggle for power and empire across continents. The alliance proved vital to the eventual defeat of Britain […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1779 Freedom and Natural Rights video examines the promise of freedom and natural rights on which the American Revolution was built and how, by 1779, Americans were debating what those ideals meant, and to whom they applied. For America’s Black, female, and Indigenous populations in […]
Share to Google Classroom In Year in Revolution 1779: Gibraltar the Revolutionary War became a truly global conflict as America’s ally, France, and its ally, Spain, embarked in the “Great Siege” of Gibraltar which would last nearly four years. Britain’s defense of “the Rock” turned into one of history’s longest and most dramatic […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution: 1779 Overview video explores the war’s key events occurring in 1779— the siege and battle of Fort Sackville at Vincennes (in present-day Indiana), the Franco-Spanish Treaty of Aranjuez, the siege and battle for Gibraltar off Spain’s southern coast, the Penobscot Expedition (in present-day Maine), the […]
Share to Google Classroom The Year in Revolution 1779: John Paul Jones and the Continental Navy video explores the creation of the Continental Navy by Congress on October 13, 1775, the concepts of privateers and letters of marque, the 1779 Penobscot Exhibition in modern-day Maine, and the career of Continental Navy Captain John […]