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| Ethan Allen | led the Green Mountain Boys |
| Olive Branch Petition | last chance to peacefully end the war with Britain |
| Bunker Hill | first major battle of the Revolutionary War |
| Benedict Arnold | America's famous traitor |
| Thomas Paine | he wrote Common Sense |
| Richard Henery Lee | declared these colonies should be free |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Patriot | supported independence |
| Loyalist | person who wanted to remain loyal to the king |
| Nathan Hale | spy who said " I only regret that I have but only one life to lose for my country" |
| John Burgoyne | British general who surrendered at the Battle of Saratoga |
| Battle of Saratoga | turning point in the Revolutionary War, brought france into the war as an American ally |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Frenchman who brought trained soldiers to fight in the war |
| Nancy Ward | a Cherokee woman who warned settlers they were about to be attacked |
| Mary k. Goddard | a printer who produced the first copies of the Declaration of Independence |
| John Paul Jones | American sea captain who captured the British ship the Serapis |
| Peter Salem | a blackman who fought at the Battle of Bunkerhill |
| Mary Ludwig Hayes | Molly Pitcher she carried water to the soldiers |
| Deborah Sampson | dressed as a man and fought in several battles |
| Battle of Yorktown | The battle were the British surrendered and ended the war |
| Francis Marion | known as the swamp fox |
| Daniel Morgan | defeated the British at the Battle of the Cowpens |
| Nathanel Greene | he forced General Charles Cornwallis to move his army into Virginia |
| Comte de Rochambeau | joined with Washington and forced the British to surrender |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | this formally ended the Revolutionary War |
