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Fort Ticonderoga | this was located at the southern tip of Lake Champlain |
Continental Army | set up by the Second Continental Congress to fight the British |
blockade | shutting off a port by ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out |
Ethan Allen | Vermont blacksmith who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys |
William Prescott | led the minutemen to Bunker Hill in Charlestown |
Benedict Arnold | led his army through Maine towards Quebec where he was wounded while fighting |
Olive Branch Petition | document sent by King George III by the Continental Congress asking the king to repeal the Intolerable Acts |
Battle of Bunker Hill | first major battle of the American Revolution |
Green Mountain Boys | rebel group from Vermont who captured Fort Ticonderoga |
John Adams | person who proposed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army |
William Howe | British general at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
Richard Montgomery | led an American army from Fort Ticonderoga to Montreal and was killed in an attack at Quebec |