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| Thomas Paine | American Patriot who wrote Common Sense. |
| William Howe | Commander of British forces in the American colonies from 1775-1778 |
| Henry Knox | Revolutionary War officer who helped drive the British from Boston. |
| Second Continental Congress | A meeting in Philadelphia in which delegates from all 13 colonies established a colonial army and declared American independence |
| Continental Army | The army created by the Second Continental Congress. |
| traitor | someone who turns against his or her country |
| Declaration of Independence | the official document issued by the 2nd Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, explaining why the American colonies were breaking away from Great Britain. |
| John Locke | English philosopher whose thinking influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence |
| Nathan Hale | Patriot hanged by the British as a spy in the American Revolution |
| mercenary | a soldier paid to fight for another country |
| Loyalist | a colonist who supported Great Britain in the American Revolution |
| Trenton | Capital of New Jersey, site of an important battle in the American Revolution |
| John Burgoyne | British general whose defeat at Saratoga marked a turning point in the American Revolution |
| Thaddeus Kosciuszko | Patriot from Poland who served in the Continental Army. |
| Saratoga | Site in northeastern New York of an important Patriot victory in the Revolutionary War |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Patriot from France who became an important advisor to Washington. |
| Valley Forge | A village in southeastern Pennsylvania where George Washington and his arym camped during the harsh winter of 1777-1778 |
| Friedrich von Steuben | Patriot officer from Germany who helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge |
| Georges Rogers Clark | Revolutionary War general and frontier leader who defeated the British at Fort Vincennes. |
| John Paul Jones | American sea captain who commanded the Bonhomme Richard and defeated the British ship Serapis. |
| Benedict Arnold | Colonial general who later became a traitor to the American Revolution. |
| Mary Ludwig Hays | American Patriot; known as "Molly Pitcher." |
| Francis Marion | Revolutionary War commander who fought that British army throughout the Carolinas; known as the "Swamp Fox" |
| Nathanel Greene | Patriot general during the American Revolution who forced the British out of Georgia and the Carolinas |
| Charles Cornwallis | British general in charge of the British forces in the south |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish Governor of Louisiana who was an allly to the Patriots |
| Yorktown | A town in southeastern Viginia, site of the last major battle of the American Revolution |
| James Armistead | Patriot spy who helped defeat the British at Yorktown |
| Treaty of Paris (1783) | The peace treaty in which Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country. |
| Joseph Brant | Mohawk leader who sided with the British in the American Revolution |
