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| strategy | a plan of action |
| traitor | someone who is not loyal; usually a person who switches sides during a battle or war by committing treason |
| Francis Marion | an American colonel who was very good at attacking the British using guerilla tactics and retreating quickly through the swamps; nicknamed the Swamp Fox |
| guerilla tactics | type of fighting tactics using surprise attacks and quick retreats to harass the enemy; tactics used by Francis Marion in the South |
| Nathaniel Greene | commander of the Continental Army in the South during the Revolutionary War; forced the British to chase him and his army to tire the British out and use up their supplies |
| Lord Charles Cornwallis | British general in the South during the Revolutionary War; was commander at the Battle of Yorktown |
| George Rogers Clark | leader of the Continental Army in the West; won key victories at Vincennes and Kaskaskia in the Ohio River Valley |
| Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish governor of Louisiana who helped the Patriots by capturing British forts in what is today southern MS and AL as well as western FL |
| Battle of Yorktown | last major battle of the Revolutionary War; Gen. Cornwallis and his army were trapped by the Continental Army and the French fleet |
| surrender | to give up |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | signed by the United States and Britain to end the Rev. War; Britain recognized the US as an independent nation and gave up all lands east of the Mississippi River and south of Canada to the US |
| United States of America | name for the former Thirteen Colonies |
