Exercise 1: Find the vocabulary

s'effriter, tomber en ruine   ►           be in debt  ►  être

jeter, deverser   ►             une cargaison   ►  a

sévère, dur   ►           nommer  ►  

se réunir   ►            reconnu  ►  

plusieurs   ►          lancer   ►  

une attaque surprise   ►  a        en emballant   ►  

des chiffons, des guenilles   ►                  des renforts   ►  

se retirer   ►                 sanglant   ►  

Exercise 2: Complete the text to recap the history of the American Revolutionary war

In the late 1700s, the relationship between and its in began to crumble.

The colonies and after a that lasted years, they became an called the of .

This war is called the . 

The French and war, also called the ' war, ended in and Great-Britain was in .

To win money, Great-Britain decided to the .

But the population refused because they had been left by the British and also because the colonists didn't have any in . 

They it was to impose without political representation. It was !

This started a period of between the two sides.

In , British opened and killed 5 colonists: the .

In , to protest against on the of , a group of colonists desguised as threw a shipment into the harbour: the Boston .

As a repression, the British passed the Acts : they wanted to the colonists and to control of the colonies. Those laws were very .

The colonists organised themselves and met at the in the fall of in , . The asked to stop the Intolerable Acts but they were .

started in April in : they are considered as the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

The 2nd met and appointed to be the of the Continental .

The first major was the Battle of . The British had over Boston and wanted to more . Thousands of American gathered to the British also known as the .

The British the battle but so many were or that they realized the colonists would be very .

They sent a letter to the British King called the . The colonists wanted to and hoped to British but with their recognized.

King refused to the letter and declared the colonists and in . They became against the King and understood he didn't about them.

They announced the were an , of British and in charge of their own .

Thomas , Benjamin , John Robert and Roger wrote a document to why they were doing this.

On , , the 2nd Continental Congress the document called the of .

In the following months, the war went for the : the British won important victories and thousands of American .

During , the Americans lost but on , 1776, took his men across the icy River into and a attack capturing nearly one ennemy soldiers.

This victory at the of Trenton gave the Americans to fight hard again.

1777 brought more for the Americans.

The first major American victory was at the Battle of in . (season)

A few later, the British forces .

had been helping the Americans against its longtime , the British but with the victories, they showed their support .

France recognized the USA an inependent country and an alliance sending , and soldiers that would be needed to win the war.

That winter, they camped at Valley Forge where they from and .

Many of the soldiers didn't have even to wear and their feet from the by them with .

The troops managed to survive and received to be able to fight again.

The last great battle of the Revolutionary war took place around in : the British  General was waiting for British  to come with supplies and  but the French  stopped them.

General , with  French and American  surrounded the city cutting off any chance of  for the British. For  days, the Americans attacked the city with  day and night.

When the British realized no  was coming, they  to George on , . 

This victory marked the begining of the  for the war in the USA.

Over the next year, British troops  and on ,  the treaty of  was : it   peace between Great Britain and the USA, officially  the war and  the uSA as a new, independent .

The Revolutionary war was long and   but it was also a  in history.

Today, the day the colonies declared themselves independent is celebrated on the  as  day.