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 the army set up their winter quarters with business-like efficiency at Middlebrook, New Jersey.

February Rhode Island Assembly enacts temporary law granting freedom to slaves who enlist in the predominately African American First Rhode Island regiment.

February 6 French Alliance treaties signed in Europe.

February 23 Former Prussian officer Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge to begin training program.

May 6 Continental Army formally celebrates French Alliance at Valley Forge.

June 18 British withdraw from Philadelphia.

June 19 Continental Army leaves Valley Forge in pursuit.

June 28 Steuben-trained Continentals prove their mettle and force the King’s troops from the field at Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey.

July George Rogers Clark carries out audacious operation against British-held posts in present-day Indiana and Illinois, capturing Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes.

July 10 France declares war on Great Britain.

August 29 French Alliance gets off to a rocky start as an uncoordinated Franco-American attack on Newport, Rhode Island, fails.

November 11 Loyalist leaders Walter Butler and Joseph Brant lead tory and Indian attack on Cherry Valley, New York.

November Continental Army begins fourth winter camp at Middlebrook, New Jersey.

December 17 British retake Vincennes.

December 29 British expedition captures Savannah, Georgia.

World at War By 1779 the war had spread across the globe. In spring Spain entered the war as an ally of France and soon declared war on Great Britain. As the year closed, the Continental Army entered into