Battles
The first battles of the Revolutionary War
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord
Group of armed civilians, trained to be ready to fight at "any given minute"
What are Minutemen?
America's government during the Revolutionary War.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
Surprise attacks by small bands of fighters.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
Document urging the colonies to fight for independence.
What is Common Sense?
Final battle of the war, in which the French and American forces led by George Washington defeated British General Cornwallis.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
A professional solider hired to fight for a foreign country.
What is a mercenary?
Site in the southeast Pennsylvania where Washington and his army camped in the winter of 1777-78.
What is Valley Forge?
To join the armed forces.
What is enlist?
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A series of conflicts in 1777 near Albany, NY.
What are the Battles of Saratoga?
America's patriot army during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Continental Army?
A privately owned ship that has been granted permission by a wartime government to attack an enemy's merchant ships.
What is a Privateer?
A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community.
What is Militia?
Document that declared American independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A country that agrees to help another country achieve a common goal.
What is an ally?
Canons and Large guns.