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| Thomas Jefferson | Credited for writing most of the Declaration of Independence |
| John Hancock | First signer of the Declaration. "I will sign it large so that George III might read it without his spectacles". President of the Second Continental Congress. |
| Thomas Paine | Patriot who published "Common Sense" |
| George Washington | Commander of the United States Army during the Revolution |
| Richard Henry Lee | Made the first formal motion for Independence at the Second Continental Congress |
| Benedict Arnold | Planned to give West Point away to the British, but was found out and called a traitor |
| Nathan Hale | Schoolteacher hung as a spy |
| Mary Hays | (aka Molly Pitcher) Brought water to the Patriot soldiers |
| John Paul Jones | American naval commander who beat the "Serapis" |
| General Cornwallis | Surrendered the British army at Yorktown |
| Frances Marion | (aka "Swamp Fox") Hid in swamps to surprise bands of British soldiers |
| Chief Pontiac | Ottawa Indian who led tribes into battle against British forts in Ohio area during the French & Indian War |
| Crispus Attucks | Black man killed during Boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | Outspoken Virginia politician. Said, "as for me, give me liberty or give me death" |
| General Gage | British leader who attacked Patriots at Lexington and Concord |
| Paul Revere | Silversmith who rode to alert the minutemen with William Dawes. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman who brought troops to help the Patriots and also helped to train Patriot soldiers. |
| Ethan Allen | He led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga. |
