Vocabulary
A hired soldier.
What is a mercenary?
Earlier.
What is previous?
Mercenaries from Germany who fought for Britain.
What are Hessians?
The leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who was General George Washington?
A former Prussian military officer who helped train the Continental Army to become a more effective fighting force.
Who was Friedrich von Steuben?
An attack in which the attacker hides and surprises the enemy.
What is an ambush?
The final agreement to end the war that was signed in September 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
An American who remained loyal to Britain.
Who is a Tory?
The Battle where American forces surrounded British troops and forced General John Burgoyne to surrender.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This founding father was essential in getting the support of France during the Revolutionary War.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Privately owned ship outfitted with weapons.
What is a privateer?
To move.
What is transfer?
An American officer that refused to surrender saying, "I have not yet begun to fight"!
Who is John Paul Jones?
Patriot executed for spying on Great Britain.
Who was Nathan Hale?
German mercenaries, or hired soldiers, who fought for the British.
Who were the Hessians?
A measure that keeps ships from entering or leaving a harbor.
What is a blockade?
An effect.
What is to impact?
A subject that people have different views about.
What is an issue?
Colonists that opposed independence were called Loyalists. They were also known as this.
What were Tories?
The action during the winter of 1778 whereby many soldiers left without permission.
What is to desert?
To approve officially.
What is to ratify?
An attempt to force surrender by blocking the movement of people or goods into or out of a place.
What is a siege?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The two opposing sides in the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Patriots and the British?
This frenchman brought with him thousands of soldiers to fight with the Patriots.
Who was Comte de Rochambeau.