Naval captain who said "I have not begun to fight!"
Lighthorse Harry Lee
Led a calvary unit that fought in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
Robert Dinwiddie
Lieutenant governor of Virginia during the French and Indian War
Edward Braddock
British general sent to fight the French at the beginning of the French and Indian War
George Rogers Clark
Frontier fighter who led a group of Virginians west during the Revolutionary War. He captured forts and established the United States claim to the area after the war.
Richard Henry Lee
Virginia representative at the Continental Congress who introduced the proposal that the colonies declare their independence from Britian.
Charles Cornwallis
British general who surrendered to the Continental Army in Yorktown.
Patrick Henry
Member of the House of Burgesses who spoke strongly against British taxes. He gave the speech, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
George Washington
Military leader during the French and Indian War: was the first President of the United States.
Jack Jouett
Virginian who rode through the night to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to attack Charlottesville, where the colonial government was meeting.
Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the United States and writer of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Religious Freedom.
