Graphic Decade
of 
1780s 
| Graphic Decade
of |
Source: The TimeTables of History | ||
| 1780s |
| 1780 Charleston, SC surrenders to British; Fr. troops arrive at Newport, RI; Americans defeated at Camden; Brit. army defeated at King's Mountain, NC; Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point is revealed. |
1781 British defeated at Cowpens, NC and Eutaw, NC, Americans at Guilford, Conn.; end of all land operations with the British capitulation at Yorktown and evacuations of Charleston and Savannah. |
| 1782 Thomas Grenville sent from London to Paris to open peace talks with Benjamin Franklin; preliminaries accepted by Great Britain and America. |
1783 Britain and America proclamations for cessation of arms; Peace of Versilles: Great Britain recognizes independence of the United States. |
| 84 | 85 |
| 86 | 87 |
| 88 | 89 |
1780s
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