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John Paul Jones | 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. |