| A | B |
| harbor | place for ships to anchor |
| regiment | unit of soldiers |
| discouraged | lack of courage or confidence |
| liberty | freedom |
| arming | providing with weapons |
| drilling | doing exercises to become efficient soldiers |
| fierce | ferocious |
| just | honorable and fair |
| kin | people related by blood or marriage |
| peered | looked at with concentration |
| rebels | people who oppose or defy the government that exists |
| skirmish | a small, short fight between enemier |
| skittish | nervous and jumpy |