American Revolution - People

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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


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