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24 Cards in this Set
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mercenaries
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a soldier payed to fight for another country
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surveyor
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a person who measures land
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Martha Washington
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-George W.'s wife
-moved to Mount Vernon with George -supported the Patriots -helped by doing some paper work and sewing socks and making soup for the soldiers |
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Mary Ludwig Hayes
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-carried water for the soldiers in the battle of Monmouth
-nick-named Molly Pitcher |
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Margaret Corbin
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when her husband died in a war she took over the cannon and fought the British until she was wounded
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Ester DeBerdt Reed
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formed a committee to go door to door and ask for money to donate to the soldiers
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Nathan Hale
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he was a 21 year old spy for the Patriots and he drew plans of troop positions but was captured and when he went to the gallows he said,"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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Trenton
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where Will Howe ordered his troops into winter quarters
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John Burgoyne
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tried to capture the Hudson River Valley
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko
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placed cannons on a high cliff looking over the road of Albany to prepare for the British
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Saratoga
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where the Patriots won and the battle was called the first battle of FREEMAN'S FARM
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Benedict Arnold
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-won the second battle of Freeman's Farm
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Treaty of Alliance
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convinced France to support the Americans
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Marquis De Lafayette
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-wealthy French noble man
-father died whan he was a child -a soldier -He and Washington became like father and son |
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Valley Forge
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-near Philli
-where Washington moved his troops to their winter camp -where at least 2,500 soldiers died of disease |
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Friedrich Von Steuben
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-soldier from Prussia
-helped train ragged Continental Troops |
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George Rogers Clark
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decided to drive out British from the Ohio River Valley
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John Paul Jones
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when almost defeated he said, "I have not yet begun to fight."
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Francis Marion
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-"Swamp fox"
led Patriots to Carolina Country side -Quick attacks on British there - |
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Nathanael Greene
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said,''We fight, we get beat, we rise again!"
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Charles Cornwallis
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-"quite tired of running about the country in search of Greene"
-lost at Guilford Court House -surrendered at Yorktown |
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James Armistead
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was spying on Americans for British, and was then asked to spy on the British for the Americans!!!!!!
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Treaty of Paris
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-recognized the Independence of the U.S.
-signed Sept. 3, 1783 |
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Joseph Brant
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hoped the British would protect the Iroquois land
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