Important Battles / places
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Bunker Hill
Traveled to FRANCE to get support of American Army
Ben Franklin
British General who LOST at Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
1st to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
Key ADVISOR to Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Surprise attack on Christmas Eve. Gave continental army HOPE
Battle of Trenton
Official document to END THE WAR
Treaty of Paris
TRATOIR - was a Patriot and left to go to British side
Benedict Arnold
American General at Battle of Saratoga
Danial Margan
Primary WRITER of Dec. of Ind
Thomas Jefferson
TURNING point - French joined America to fight
Battle of Saratoga
French & Spanish
Allies of the Revolution
US NAVY
John Paul Jones
FRENCH general who helps Washington win the war
Marquis de LaFayette
British General at Lexington and Concord
Thomas Gage
Final battle
Battle of Yorktown
Winter camp - Gorge Washington & his army trained & become an actual army
Valley Forge
AMERICAN SPY
Nathaniel Hale
American Patriot who engraved the picture of the Boston Massacre & warned the colonists of the British coming
Paul Revere
Leader of GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS - captured Fort Ticonderoga
Ethan Allen
Huge AMERICAN VICTORY
Battle of Cowpens
Prussian who TRAINED THE ARMY at Valley Forge
Baron von Stueben
Incharge of Southern Army - won @ Princeton
Nathaniel Greene
British General who LOST at Saratoga
General Burgoyne
British General at Bunker Hill
General Howe