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| Ethan Allen | Him and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga |
| Patrick Henry | Fiery Patriot speaker who said, "Give me Liberty or give me death." |
| Paul Revere | Rode on the midnight ride to warn the colonists that the British were marching. Was also a silversmith at the time. |
| Frances Marion | A Patriot general who was known as Swamp Fox because he knew how to fight in the southern colonies' swampy areas. |
| George Washington | Commander of the Continental Army |
| Deborah Sampson | Dressed up as a man so she could fight in the Revolutionary War |
| Crispus Attucks | The black that was killed in the Boston Massacre |
| James Otis | A Patriot who came up with the phrase, "No Taxation without Representation". |
| Benedict Arnold | Started as a Patriot and end the war as a Loyalist |
| Abigail Adams | Wrote many letters to her husband urging him to "Remember the Ladies." This started the idea of woman's rights. |
| John Hancock | Signed his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence |
| Charles Cornwallis | The General for Great Britain that had to surrender his sword to George Washington at Yorktown because he lost the war. |
| John Adams | Was a Patriot at the Continental Congress. Actually served as a British lawyer and defended the British during the Boston Massacre, but later helped write the Declaration of Independence. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote Declaration of Independence |
| King George III | The ruler of Great Britain who taxed the colonies. |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense which made the colonists angry about the taxes. |
| Ben Franklin | Inventor and statesman in the colonies. Sent to England to try to persuade King to get rid of taxes. |
| Betsy Ross | Supposedly sewed the first flag of the United States |
| John Paul Jones | Was a patriot naval captain who fought the war for independence close to England. Said "I have not yet begun to fight". |
| Sam Adams | Helped start the Committees of Correspondence. He helped the Patriot cause along with his cousin, John Adams. |
| Charles Townshend | The British treasurer who taxed the colonies with the Townshend Acts. |
| Marquis De Lafayette | A French soldier who helped the Patriots win the war with much of his own money and his expertise in fighting. |
| John Burgoyne | British army officer who surrendered his troops at the Battle of Saratoga. |
| Molly Pitcher Hays | A woman who brings water to the men on the battlefield. Took over for her husband after he got hurt on the battlefield. |
| Baron Von Steuben | A Prussian born Patriot who helped the soldiers learn how to march and drill. |
