THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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They were all from countries that were enemies of France.
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They all came from Europe to help the Americans’ cause.
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They had all fought General Burgoyne at one time.
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Each came from a country led by a tyrannical ruler.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How were Marquis de Lafayette, Thaddeus Kosciusko, and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben connected to the American Revolution? All three of these men were foreign military officers who helped provide military expertise to the poorly-trained Continental soldiers.
Detailed explanation-2: -He was instructor and supply officer for General Nathanael Greene’s southern army, which fought the key battles that led to the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Steuben commanded of one of the three divisions in the Continental Army at Yorktown.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did Lafayette and von Steuben help in the war? Lafayette brought an army and von Steuben trained the Americans at valley forge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a skilled engineer with a military education by the time he arrived in the American colonies from Poland in 1776. Offering his services to the revolutionary cause, he masterminded a key British defeat at Saratoga and oversaw the building of military fortifications at West Point.