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| Admiral de Grasse | Admiral of the French fleet from the West Indies |
| Ticonderoga | Fort captured from the British by the patriots led by Ethan Allen |
| Battle of Trenton | Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night to win this battle |
| Battle of Cowpens | A great patriot victory in South Carolina |
| Nathaniel Greene | The "Fighting Quaker" of the Southern patriot army |
| Hessians | German mercenaries sent to fight the colonists |
| Bunker Hill | This battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill |
| Olive Branch Petition | This colonial petition tried to avoid open war with Britain |
| Thomas jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence |
| John Paul Jones | Told the British "I have not yet begun to fight" |
| Thomas Sumter | Called the "Fighting Game Cock" |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" |
| Paul Revere | Boston silversmith and patriot who warned the townspeople of the coming British |
| Boston | City that threw a "tea Party" |
| Lemuel Haynes | a young minuteman who went on to become a great revival preacher in New England |
| Ethan Allen | led the "Green Mountain Boys" |
| Marquis de LaFayette | A young Frenchman who aided General Washington |
| Molly Pitcher | A courageous woman who helped the patriots in the battle of Monmouth |
| Loyalists | A name given to colonists who were loyal to the king. |
| Treaty of Paris | Formally ended the War for Independence |
| Indians | Colonial raiders dressed up like these in the Boston Tea Party |
| Minutemen | Patriot soldiers ready to fight upon "a minute's notice" |
| Camden | A British victory in the South |
| Bonhomme Richard | John Paul Jones' ship |
| Philadelphia | Place where the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress was held |
| Boston Massacre | Where British soldiers fired upon an angry mob of colonists |
| Privateers | Small boats commissioned to harass the British |
| Valley Forge | Where Washington and his army spent the winter of 1777 |
| General Horatio Gates | General who was victorious at Saratoga |
| Nathan Hale | Patriot whose last words were "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| General Cornwallis | General who surrendered at Yorktown |
| Patrick Henry | Patriot who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| Revere, Dawes, Prescott | The three who warned the British were coming. |
| Yorktown | Place where the American army trapped the British and ended the war. |
| Benedict Arnold | Great American soldier turned traitor |
| Lexington & Concord | "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired at this battle |
| Intolerable Acts | What the colonists called the harsh actions England imposed upon them |
| Francis Marion | "Swamp Fox" |
| New Jersey | Most of the major battles took place in this state |
| New York | State where Fort Ticonderoga is located |
