Major Campaigns of the American Revolution
The New York and New Jersey Campaigns
Actions:
-British attacked New York City
-The Battle of Staten Island
-July 3rd, 1763 British were successful
-this drove the Americans back to Manhattan
- Drive for Manhattan
-12,000 British soldiers moved to take New York City
- This was accomplished successfully
-Cornwallis manhandle of Americans
- Chased Americans through New Jersey until they withdrew to Pennsylvania
-Battle of Trenton
-This was Washington’s counterstrike
-Inconspicuously crossed the Delaware on Christmas night capturing nearly 1,000 Hessians
-Battle of Princeton
-Cornwallis’s attempt to recover Trenton
-Washington retained ground
Strategy:
-The Battle of Staten Island
-The Americans
- Had 19,000 soldiers
- Divided equally into two battalions
- Split between Long Island and Manhattan
-The British
- Had 25,000 soldiers on Staten Island
- They engaged one half of Washington’s men at a time.
- Drove for Manhattan
- Easily took over New York City
-Battle of Trenton
-The American
- Surrounded Trenton so Hessians could not retreat
- Stormed city, taking over houses and other buildings
-The British
- Tried to retreat but were not prepared
- Ignored warning signs of Continental Attack
-Battle of Princeton
-The British
- Stationed under the lead of Charles Mawhood
- Fired upon sight of Americans
-The American
- Split into two divisions
- One division fought Mawhood’s men
- The other division dismembered a bridge to the south to slow Cornwallis’s men
Outcome:
-The Battle of Staten Island
-The Americans
- 312 dead, 1407 wounded or captured
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Imagine a historian, author of an award-winning dissertation and several books. He is an experienced lecturer and respected scholar; he is at the forefront of his field. His research methodology sets the bar for other academicians. He is so highly esteemed, in fact, that an article he has prepared is to be presented to and discussed by the United States’ oldest and largest society of professional historians. These are precisely the circumstances in which Ulrich B. Phillips wrote his 1928 essay, “The Central Theme of Southern History.” In this treatise he set forth a thesis which on its face is not revolutionary: that the cause behind which the South stood unified was not slavery, as such, but white supremacy. Over the course of fourteen elegantly written pages, Phillips advances his thesis with evidence from a variety of primary sources gleaned from his years of research. All of his reasoning and experience add weight to his distillation of Southern history into this one fairly simple idea, an idea so deceptively simple that it invites further study.