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31 Cards in this Set
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george washington |
commander and chief of army
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daniel morgan |
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marquis de la fayette |
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patrick henry |
one of 120 delegates
"give me liberty or give me death" |
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paul revere |
silversmith
messanger in lexington and concord midnight ride |
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paeter salem |
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henry knox |
was a camnder
brought cannons from fort ticonderoga bookseller first secretary of war stayed in the war most of the time |
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thomas paaine |
wrote common sense
fought for colonial Independence author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, founding father |
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george rogers clark |
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alexander hamilton |
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common sense |
written by thomas payne |
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treaty of paris of 1783 |
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declaration of independance |
created by the committee of five john Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R Livingston, Roger Sherman |
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nathaniel greene |
replaced gates self taught studied military tactics in charge of Rhode island army |
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francis marion |
father of guerrilla warfare "swamp fox" quick attacks |
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thought on government |
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benedict arnold |
very brave much of his credit taken by horatio gates switched sides name known for treason left to london after war |
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horation gates |
born in england faught in freanch and indian thought he should be general not washington worked in congress |
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john adams |
part of the committee of five |
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american crisis |
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baron von steuben |
supervised a training program at valley forge sanitation got 120 men realy trained and they trained the rest much swearing |
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trenton |
planning to attack while at winter quarters crossing the Delaware no one died |
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princeton |
washington beath british moral raised reenlistment raised |
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saratoga |
catastrophic battle turning point of war french joined in |
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yorktown |
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monmouth |
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lexington & concord |
pual revere warned everybody Parker was colonial general pticarn was British general 8 colonials died 10 wounded 1british wounded at lexington british burned some supplies at concord then retreated with colonias shooting at them the whole way |
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bunker (breeds) hill |
fort at the top british went to attack "dont fire till you see the whites in their eyes" drove british back several times pitcairn died colonials ran out of supplies and had to retreat after 3 attacks prescott last to leave joseph warren died in retreat |
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thomas jefferson |
one of 120 delegates wrote the declaration of independence |
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john paul jones |
naval hero captured HMS drake started at 13 "unnecessarily cruel" |
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comte de rochambeau |
french aristocrat |
