| A | B |
|---|
| ally | country that agrees to help another country achieve a goal |
| Benjamin Franklin | he helped persuade France to become America's ally |
| France | an ally of America that had a large impact on the American's winning of the war |
| King Louis XVI | he signed 2 treaties of alliance with America |
| Spain | country who helped America by keeping the British busy in the Southwest |
| Marquis de Lafayette | "the soldier's friend"; French nobleman who volunteered in Washington's army |
| Baron de Kalb | German officer who became one of Washington's generals |
| Baron von Steuben | German who helped train the American army |
| bayonets | long steel knives attached to the ends of guns |
| Valley Forge | place where the Continental Army spent a long, hard winter |
| George Rogers Clark | he defended America's western frontier |
| privateer | privately owned ship that a wartime government gives permission to attack and enemy's merchant ships |
| John Paul Jones | American naval hero who is famous for saying "I have not yet begun to fight" |
