Battles
This battle saw no casualties on either side, and involved the taking of a key fort in the middle of the night by two Americans who worked together, though only one got credit for the victory.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
A Frenchman who came to help out the Americans early in the war. He would eventually become a major leader of the Americans and a close friend of General Washington and helped train the American Army.
Marquis de Lafayette
The year the treaty of Paris was Signed
The were the Colonist that sided with the British during the war and later fled America for Canada and England when the was was lost.
Loyalist
This famous General turned spy for the British after he was not given his just dues for his efforts on the American Side.
Benedict Arnold
" Don't fire till you see the white of their eyes!" Was the battle cry of this battle during the Revolution, where the Americans loss, but inflicted heavy casualties on the British, including many officers.
Bunker Hill (Breeds Hill)
This battle is known as the turning point of the war due to it gain the Americans favor with France, and stopped a British plans to split the colonies in half through NY along the Hudson and Lake Champlain.
Battle of Saratoga
Father of the American Navy, this trader turned captain would capture and sink many British ships, and even would raid the coast of England during the war.
John Paul Jones
The number of article in the Treaty of Paris between the Americans and British.
10
These Mercenaries were paid to fight for the British and were from Germany.
Hessians
Culper's Spy Ring
This song was song originally by the British to mock the Americans and their poor fighting ability. Later it would be sung back at them when they were running back to Boston from Lexington and Concord and is a common kids song today.
Yankee Doodle
Know as one of Washington's greatest victories, this battle had the Americans take zero casualties and gain many much needed supplies and boost in moral from the captured, and somewhat inebriated enemy.
Battle of Trenton (Crossing the Delaware)
A major diplomate for the Americans, he served on the Continental Congress, helped write the Declaration of Independence, "negotiated" the Alliance with France and helped create the treaty that ended the war.
Ben Franklin
Article 4 stated that each nation had to pay the other for this
Owed Debt
This would become Americas strongest Ally during the war, following the battle of Saratoga
France
The Best spies were often these types of people.
African American Women, preferably slaves.
Nathan Hale
This was the last major battle of the war, convincing the British that the Americans were not going to give up and the War was becoming to costly.
Yorktown
Created the "little blue book which became the basis of training troops in the American Army. Was a harsh Prussian who made sure the American army was well trained both on the battlefield and in Camp.
Baron Von Sturben
The time which was given in Article 10 for the treaty to be agreed upon by all sides.
6 months
Where the Colonist that did not join either side of the war.
Fence Sitters
One technology used by the spy ring was to hide messages in plain letters, which you could only read the true message on by using a special tool called a.
Keyhole Cipher
When the British surrendered at Yorktown, many of the soldier would sing this song as they left the city and went into American capture as they saw the war as over and everything all wrong.
The world turned upside down
This battle almost saw George Washington removed from command, after he blundered and failed to defend against the British at this major City, instead retreating after a number of losses to Pennsylvania.
Was leader of the Americans at Saratoga, would steal the credit for winning the battle even though he spent most of it in his tent while others led on the front. He later would try to take command of the American forces from Washington following his defeats in NYC and Philadelphia.
Horatio Gates
Article 2 outlined that boarders of the US after the war. Besides the Great lakes and Canada, What were the other three?
Florida to South
Atlantic Ocean in East
Mississippi in West.
The other Nations that came to Americas aid both officially or in the form of people volunteering to help lead.
Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Prussia
Beyond his own feelings of betrayal, Benedict Arnold also switched to the British side in part due to having married and been influenced by his new Loyalist wife, her name being.
Peggy Shippen
"I have not yet begun to fight" was stated by this captain when he was fighting a English Warship and was asked if he would surrender.
John Paul Jones