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27.) What was a common nickname for women who helped bring water to injured soldiers, but is the official nickname of Mary Ludwig Hayes (McCauley) ?- she brought water to the Continental soldiers
Molly Pitcher
30.) The night before this battle, Washington sneaked across the Delaware with 2,400 troops to capture the Hessians:
Battle of Trenton
12.) This was the final letter sent to King George from the colonists asking for peace before the Revolutionary War:
Olive Branch Petition
23.) This French soldier became a general in the Continental Army at the age of 19, was close friends with General George Washington, and helped to train the Continental Army’s soldiers:
Marquis de Lafayette
6.) Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense” to motivate the colonists to fight for their independence and “The American Crisis” to motivate the Continental Army to fight the British?
Thomas Paine
11.) This was the ship of John Paul Jones that was destroyed during an encounter with a British ship-of-the-line:
Bonhomme Richard
2.) Which Continental commander led colonists to victory at the Battle of Vincennes in present-day Indiana?
Colonel George Rogers Clark
28.) This battle was the turning point in the Revolutionary for the Colonists because the French agreed to help them:
Battle of Saratoga
7.) What was the name of the professional German soldiers that the British hired to fight the Continental Army?
Hessians
21.) This American loss in the South crushed the spirits of the soldiers of the Continental Army (5,400 Continental soldiers taken as Prisoners of War – P.O.W.’s):
Siege of Charleston
29.) This man was named the “Swamp Fox” for his creative battle tactics and cleverness against the British:
Francis Marion
22.) This sailor was the first African American to die for the cause of the American Revolution:
Crispus Attucks
26.) This treaty ended the Revolutionary War:
Treaty of Paris
15.) What was the name of the document the colonists sent to King George III stating that the colonies were now free and independent states?
Declaration of Independence
18.) This was the “final” battle of the Revolutionary War:
Siege of Yorktown
17.) This French naval officer anchored 29 French warships in Chesapeake Bay, thus cutting General Lord Charles Cornwallis off from his escape route at the Siege of Yorktown:
Comte de Grasse/Francois
8.) This battle outside of the City of Boston resulted in loss for the Continental Army because they ran out of ammunition. (Morale Victory)
Battle of Bunker Hill
25.) This American General tried to give Fort West Point to the British (a traitor):
Benedict Arnold
28.) This battle was the turning point in the Revolutionary for the Colonists because the French agreed to help them:
Battle of Saratoga
13.) What commander led the Green Mountain Boys in their attack on Fort Ticonderoga?
Ethan Allen
9. This area in Pennsylvania is where Washington camped and trained his troops during the winter of 1777-78.
Valley Forge
20.) What Continental Army colonel (later made General), under the command of General Horatio Gates, led repeated ambush attacks against British General John Burgoyne’s army near Saratoga, New York (using ambush/guerilla warfare tactics)?
Daniel Morgan
16.) This was the ship that destroyed John Paul Jones’ship, but was then captured by John Paul Jones.
HSM Serapis
19.) This colonial sea captain defeated the British in the North Sea. (said, “I have not yet begun to fight!”):
John Paul Jones
5.) This commander of the British Army refused to surrender his sword to George Washington at Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis