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 winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey, where they would endure fiercer weather conditions and subsist on fewer supplies than they had at Valley Forge.

January 11 Lafayette returns to France to plead for additional support.

January 29 British occupy Augusta, Georgia.

February 25 George Rogers Clark recaptures Vincennes.

April 12 Spain, which had been contributing aid to the Americans, enters war as an ally of France.

May Continental Army leaves Camp Middlebrook, New Jersey.

June 1 British occupy Stony Point and Verplancks Point, New York, and secure strategic Kings Ferry on the Hudson River.

June 21 Spain formally declares war on Great Britain.

July 16 Anthony Wayne captures formidable fortress Stony Point, New York, during daring night assault.

July-August American attempt to attack Penobscot (Maine) fails miserably.

August 29 In only battle of General John Sullivan’s punitive campaign against the Iroquois, Continental Army defeats tory and Indian force at Newtown, New York.

August 19 Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee carries out successful offensive against Paulus Hook, New Jersey, a British stronghold on the Hudson River.

September-October Allied forces fail to dislodge British garrison during the disappointing Siege of Savannah, Georgia.

September 23 John Paul Jones defeats frigate Serapis near English coast.

September 25 Congress appoints John Jay minister to Spain.

December 1 Continental Army comes into the war’s fifth winter encampment at Morristown, New Jersey, where the army endures an extraordinarily harsh winter.