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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. |