why was the battle of saratoga the turning point of the war?
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The American victory at Saratoga was an extremely important one. It ended the British plan to separate New England from the other colonies. It also showed European nations that the new country might really be able to win its revolutionary war. This was something that France, especially, had wanted ever since being defeated by the British earlier in the French and Indian War. \n\nThe French government had been supplying the Americans secretly through the work of America's minister to France, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was popular with the French people and with French government officials. He helped gain French sympathy for the American cause. \n\nAfter the American victory at Saratoga, the French decided to enter the war on the American side. The government recognized American independence. The two nations signed military and political treaties. France and Britain were at war once again. The British immediately sent a message to America's Continental Congress. They offered to change everything so relations would be as they had been in 1773. The Americans rejected the offer. The war would be fought to the end. \n\nIn 1779 Spain entered the war against the British. And the next year, the British were also fighting the Dutch to stop their trade with America. The French sent gunpowder, soldiers, officers, and ships to the Americans. However, neither side made much progress in the war for the next two years
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(whoever answered Gettysburg missed the boat by about eighty years)\n\nIt's a toss-up.  The battle of Trenton, when Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve 1776 to capture the Hessian camp, could be considered the most important because almost all of the entire Continental Army was about to go home (their enlistment period expired at the end of the year), and the win breathed new life into our army, which had been on the run for over three months.\n\nThe other choice is the battle of Saratoga, in October 1777.  We forced the surrender of a major British army (c. 8000 men, under "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne) and when the news of this reached Europe, France agreed to a formal alliance--which took a lot of pressure off the colonies as the British considered the French their primary enemy from mid-1778 on.\n\nGiven the two, I'd pick Trenton.  The army might have disappeared if not for George Washington's victories there and at Princeton (3 Jan 1777).
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In the American Revolution the French fought with the Americans against the British.
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. The war began largely as a colonial revolt against the economic policies of the British Empire, and eventually widened far beyond British North America, with France, Spain, and the Netherlands entering the war against Great Britain. Additionally, many American Indians fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture colonial coastal cities, but control of the countryside largely eluded them. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States of America. Because a great number of colonists fled the thirteen colonies and settled in the north, the war also paved the way for the eventual creation of what would become Canada.
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The security at potentially clinching games is overwhelming now.  I think the turning point game was the final game of the 1976 ALCS when the Yankee fans totallly trashed the field after Chris Chambliss won the pennant for the Yankees on a 9th inning walk off homer.  It was not a new development for the home town crowd to jump onto the field for a pennant or World Series winning moment.  I have seen films of the Bill Mazeroski walk off home run in 1960 and he had trouble crossing the plate because of the number of fans who had run onto the field in celebration.   In the 2004 ALCS, when A-Rod was called out after limp wristedly slapping at Bronson Arroyo's glove, dozens of mounted New York policeman had to surround the field as a preventative.  They did not just show up, they were obviously at the Stadium and ready to go in case of just such an emergency.
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It sevrved notice to the King of England that the revolt that started in the Colonies in April 1775 was actually a total revolution for Independence.  This let the world know what our intentions were as well and helped in getting us aid in our battle with the English.  The Declaration of Independence also set the tone for the constitution we still have today.
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The country was together at that time.Vast ammounts of people were willing to sacrafice  for the war effort. That was a real war that brought every one to a common goal-Victory. Unlike todays war of choice which has devided our country,we joined together and did the job that saved civilization as we know it.
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Lexington and Concord\n\n\nAmericans felt they would have to fight to protect their rights and their liberites from the British.\n\nLexington and Concord was in Massachusetts. On April 17,1775 a war started between the Americans and the British.\n\nThe leaders of the Americans were John Hancock and Sam Adams. Paul Revere also was important to the battle . The leader of the British was General Thomas Gage.\n\nIn the battle there were lots of people that died. There were 100 Americans that died and 300 British that died. \n\nThe battle of Lexington and Concord was finely over. On April 19, 1775 the Americans won the battle. They finally got their rights and liberties back.
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It led to the end of the Civil War by forcing the industrial might of the north to be aligned against the seccessionists.  It was the provocation needed to bring the south back into the union fold.  Without Sumter, the seccession would've continued for a longer period than the four or five years that it did.\n\nYah, i get the 10 points, everyone else commented how it started the war, and not how it led to the end of the war.
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try looking for the french and indian war and the american revolution here is a good link for you.\nhttp://sc94.ameslab.gov/tour/gwash.html
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Yes it was terrorism at the time.\nBut you don't judge the winners.\nIf the terrorists win and form their own Country they stopp being terrorists.\nSo consider this, if American Revolution would have failed, George Washington would be known as a terrorist.
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It was the battle of Guilford Courthouse (near Greensboro, NC).  While we lost that battle, Cornwallis (the English general) said that another such victory for the English and they shall lose the war.  \n\nThe "victory" at Guilford Courthouse cost so many British soldiers that Washington was able to win the next major battle -- and the war!  \n\n(FYI, this was the battle going on in the big scene at the end of Mel Gibson's movie, The Patriot.)
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The United States took a neutral position before entry into WWI.  Wilson had initially run on the platform of the man who would keep the U.S. out of the war.  The government also felt that entry onto the British side would divide the nation (with the U.S.'s large german population.)  The Zimmerman telegram would change all that, of course....
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The Battle of Bunker Hill wasn't fought on Bunker Hill but on the nearby Breed's Hill. The Battle took place on June 17, 1775, in Boston, near Boston Harbor. The Battle was part of the war for independence between the British and the American colonists.\n\nThe colonists were warned by spies that the British were preparing to march and to seize the Dorchester Heights and Charlestown peninsulas. These peninsulas offered a commanding view of the seaport and harbor, and they were important in preserving the security of Boston.\n\nThe colonists were ordered to start fortifying Bunker Hill but fortified Breed's Hill instead. There are many theories as to why they did this. Some historians say it was a mistake due to incorrect maps or miscalculations during the night. Others think it was a strategic decision because Breed's Hill was closer to Boston Harbor and they could attack British ships as well. Another theory is that the men in the field didn't know how to follow orders and selected the wrong hill.\n\nBoth of the hills were on the Charlestown peninsula, which was approached by a narrow strip of land. Bunker Hill was the higher of the two hills and it overlooked the smaller Breed's Hill. The British could have easily surrounded the peninsula, because all their ships were there, cutting it off. Then the British troops could have made an attack and overpowered the colonists into submission. The colonists would have even aided in this attack by not fortifying the higher Bunker Hill.
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Lexington and Concord are considered to be the first full-scale battle(s) of the American Revolution.  Previous fighting/shots did occur, such as the Gaspee and the Boston Tea Party, but it was Lexington and Concord that really set things in motion and had the momentum to keep it going.
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after america beat england in the revolution, britian still had troops in america so the war was to have full rights to their land and get rid of the last of britians influence.
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First of all Americans are Brits, but are in different countries, and civil war occours in the SAME country, but I think I know what you are refering to.\n\nThe American Revolution was a revolution that ended two centuries of rule of the Thirteen Colonies by the British Empire and created the modern United States of America. The Revolutionary era was both exhilarating and disturbing–a time of progress for some, dislocation for others. The American Revolution is the series of ideas, and changes that resulted in the revolution and ensuing political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America with a new political system. The American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1783, was one part of the revolution, but the revolution by the Americans began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. Years later, in 1818, John Adams wrote: "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced," and "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."\n\nHistorians usually agree that the revolutionary era began in 1763 as Britain defeated France in the French and Indian War, and the military threat to the colonies from France ended. The end of the period is usually marked by as Treaty of Paris in 1783. However, references to the "revolutionary era" sometimes stretched to 1789, when a new government under George Washington began operating.\n\nInterpretations about the effect of the revolution vary. At one end of the spectrum is the older view that the American Revolution was not "revolutionary" at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The more recent view pioneered by historians such as Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood and Edmund Morgan is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, based on a new ideology of "republicanism" which produced deep changes that had a profound impact on world history.