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Ben Franklin | AMbassador to France, famous scientist |
Samuel Adams | Started the Sons of Liberty |
John Adams | Famous Massachusetts lawyer who defended the British at the Boston Massacre |
Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Paine | Wrote Common Sense |
John Hancock | signed the Declaration first |
Patrick Henry | Said "Give me liberty of give me death" |
Paul Revere | Said: "The British are coming" |
George Washington | Leader of the continental Army |
George Rogers Clark | Held control of the western frontier |
Nathan Hale | Said"I regret I have but one life to give for u country" |
Molly Pitcher | went with her husband to war and helped the troops |
Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman and trusted aide to Washington |
Nathanael Greene | Commanded the American troops in the South |
Charles Cornwallis | British General |
2nd Continental Congress | Meeting of colonial representatives |