American Revolution - People
Her letters to her husband documented life on the home front during the Revolutionary War "Remember the ladies"
Abigail Adams
Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge
Baron Von Steuben
Persuaded foreign countries, particularly France, to join/aid the American cause; author of Join or Die cartoon during French & Indian War
Benjamin Franklin
Spanish governor of New Orleans who closed the port of New Orleans to British shipping and attacked British ships in the Gulf of Mexico
Bernardo de Galvez
African-American who was the 1st to die during the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Commander in Chief of the Continental (American) Army during the Revolutionary War; Defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown
George Washington
Mercenaries hired by the British to fight in America
Hessians
African-American who served as the 1st double spy; A slave whose intelligence helped defeat the British at Yorktown
James Armistead
Secured financial aid for America in the Revolution AND defended the British soldiers that shot colonists at the Boston Massacre
John Adams
Patriot and first signer of the Declaration of Independence; president of 2nd Continental Congress
John Hancock
Enlightenment thinker; concept of unalienable rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)
John Locke
Father of the US Navy who inspired Americans with the words "I have not yet begun to fight.." Captured the British man-of-war Serapis
John Paul Jones
King of England before and during the American Revolution
King George III
French military advisor to George Washington; Used his own money to buy clothing for the American troops
Marquis de Lafayette
Writer who authored anti British plays, poems and essays supporting the idea of independence
Mercy Otis Warren
Who fired the first shots of the Revolutionary War?
No one knows
Proclaimed "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death" in a speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses
Patrick Henry
Supported independence during the War
Patriots
Member of the Sons of Liberty; warned of the British regulars marching on Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere
Cousin of John Adams; Leader of the Sons of Liberty and organizer of the Committees of Correspondence
Samuel Adams
Bernardo de Galvez
Spanish governor who aided the Americans during the Revolution by defending the Gulf of Mexico
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote The American Crisis which inspired the Americans to continue their fight for independence AND Common Sense
Thomas Paine
African-American patriot who fights at Saratoga; 1st African American elected to public office in America
Wentworth Cheswell
Gathered supplies and served as cooks and nurses in the soldier's camps. Some individuals, such as "Molly Pitcher" and Deborah Sampson served more actively on the battlefield.
Women
