| A | B |
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| George Washington | commander of the Continental Army |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country |
| strategy | an overall plan of action |
| rendezvous | a meeting |
| Battle of Saratoga | a series of conflicts between Brittish soldiers and the Continental Army in 1777 that proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War |
| ally | a country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman who volunteered to serve in Washington's army |
| bayonet | a long steel knife attached to the end of a gun |
| desert | to leave military duty without intending to return |
| privateer | a privately owned ship that has government permission during wartime to attack an enemy's merchant ships |
| James Forten | 14 yr old son of a free African-American sail maker |
| John Paul Jones | most famous naval officer of the Revolution known by a fake name; won the most famous sea battle |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general who lead army in South Carolina |
| guerrillas | a soldier who weakens the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks |
| Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the surrender of British forces in 1781 |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the United States |
| republicanism | the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people, people exercise their power by voting for political representation |
| Elizabeth Freeman | African-American who sued for her freedom in a Massachusetts court and won in 1781 ending slavery in that state |
| Richard Allen | preacher who helped start the Free African Society |
