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Crispus Attucks |
-American merchant seaman, whaler and dock worker. -Part Native American and part African. -He was one of the five colonists to be killed at the Boston Massacre. Believed to be the first to be killed in the struggle for independence. |
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Marquis de Lafayette |
-Wealthy French nobleman -Served as a major General under George Washington. -Advocated for the Americans to the French goverment. -Helped fund revolution. |
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James Armisted |
-Slave who served as a spy for the americans. -Instrumental in the American Victory at York Town. -Was granted his freedom and a pension by the Virginia legislature after war. |
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Mercy Otis Warren |
-Author, member if a family with strong independence attitudes. Before -Wrote an anti-British pro-independence pamplets and plays. -Was an anonymous member of the commites of correspondence, After the war she wrote a famous, 3 volume History of the revolution. |
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Bernado Gonzales |
-gov. of the spanish Louisiana -Galves allowed tons of military supplies to be shipped up up the Mississippi river to the patriots. -Ordered attacks on British Ships and forts in and along the gulf of mexico. -Galveston ,TX is named after him. |
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Wentworth Cheswell |
-First African-American elected to plubic office in the colonies. -Also a teacher, merchant, archeologist, and american revolution veteran. -Signed a document pledging his loyalty to patriot cause. He was a messenger to warn colonist about Britain. -Fought in Battle of Soratoga. |
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Samuel Adams |
-American(Massachussets) political activist and politician. |
