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Marquis de Lafayette
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French aristocrat who volunteered to serve in Washington's army
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Valley Forge
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site in southeast Pennsylvania where Washington & his army camped in the winter of 1777-1778
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George Rogers Clark
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frontiersman who helped defend the Western frontier
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John Paul Jones
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sea commander who attacked British ships near the British coast
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Wilderness Road
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a trail into Kentucky
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ally
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a country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal
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desert
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to leave military duty without permission
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privateer
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a privately owned ship that has been granted permission by a wartime government to attack an enemy's merchant ships
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